Emma creates joyous playful art that appeals to a wide audience. She describes herself as an illustrator and maker of monsters – creating one-of-a-kind monster plushies that all come with a hand drawn story card. The story cards describe how the monster (Colin or Dave or Susan- they tend to have quite ordinary names) like …
Janet’s hand dyed fabric and stitch work consists of maps, allotments and gardens based on familiar places, journeys and experiences primarily in Yorkshire and some coastal locations. It is constructed of hand dyed cotton, calico wadding with hand and machine embroidery. It is developed from a long process using sketches from observations and is influenced …
Aidan is a textile printer and natural dyer based in Yorkshire with a particular interest in traditional block printing techniques to create fabrics and pieces for the home. As a member of the Heritage Craft Association her process is a kinder and slower way of making by hand – from designing and carving the block, …
Clare creates vibrant, colourful handwoven textile products. Using her 24 shaft dobby loom, Clare weaves short runs of her signature fabrics. She then makes the fabrics into textile products such as cushions, buttons, pouches and small art pieces. Clare is available for commission work for larger pieces such as bespoke upholstery projects. With her bold …
Alison Evans is a Derbyshire based paper-cutwork (scherenshnitte) artist. She creates artwork from her original hand-cut designs. Inspired by nature and the environment and using recycled paper, backed with beautiful fabrics. Primarily a garden designer, Alison turned her hand to paper cutting in 2011, making hand-cut pieces for friends and family. ‘Fancy Plants’, created by …
Catherine Hill is an award-winning artist from Lancashire, based in the UK. Easily recognised for her creative use of embroidered text, she has been invited to publish work in several publications most recently in Embroidering the Everyday: Found Stitch Paint by Cas Holmes. Her work combines vintage red thread and cotton cloth to create unique …
Eve Marshall is a professional felter and has been working creatively with wool for over fifteen years. She uses a variety of wet and needle felting techniques to create her pictures. She is inspired by the countryside and her wacky brain. During the wet felting process she throws as much colour and texture at a …
“Just the clothes on their backs: bear witness” is a clothesline. Pegged on the line are panels of silk fluttering in the moving air. Full size images of clothing are printed on the panels and, on the clothing, images of migration. Many migrants travel with ‘just the clothes on their backs’. Imagine the clothes could …
A site-specific textile, interactive installation, built to spectacular dimensions in gaudy and enticing colours. Grace works with oilcloth to make shiny, colourful crafted objects and installations, and is excited to bring this work to her native West Yorkshire in a new formation, and a domestic setting. This patchwork piece uses the traditional pinwheel pattern, made …