Blog
Hello and welcome to my Blog especially for textile artists, combining inspiration, personal growth, creativity and design. All the good things!
Reflect, Review and ReSet
My best Christmas Wishes to you all for your own creative studio practice. It’s not always an easy road but it certainly keeps us all working to fulfil our aims and dreams.
Escape
Sometimes going backwards moves us forward – it did for me.
What Does Fully Resolved Artwork Mean?
Recently, I came across an exhibition opportunity with conditions of entry featuring the term 'fully resolved artwork'. So I decided to research the term 'fully resolved artwork', and unearthed that it can mean different things. As so often happens in the art world,...
Line As Inspiration
Draw a line and work on it – make a shape – draw another line, then tell a story.
Pressure
Looking at it this way, pressure is a privilege and when managed well, can stretch our abilities even further.
Add Pizzaz To Your Photoshoot
You’ve done the hard yards and created the work, now make your embroidery sing in your photoshoot.
Working At A Sewing Machine
It’s about being proactive and thinking ahead – these simple things can often make a huge difference.
Stitch Roll Magic
It doesn’t take anything fancy or complicated. The stitches I use are all simple.
Ideas to Display Textile Art
So, with the end in mind, how will you hang or display your next new work?
WIP Images
By taking the time to take one image after each workday, you gain an archive of your work, your process and enough content to keep any social media account thriving in the right community.
Time, Problems, Passion and Deadlines
This is about understanding yourself as an artist, creator and person because you’re the only one who knows what motivates you to create.
15 Tips to Nurture Creativity
Nurture the artist and we nurture creativity.
It’s The Finish That Really Counts
Design with the end in mind and give finishing its due.
Page Turners
Note to self: look at just one book from my library every morning over a relaxing cup of breakfast tea.
Embroidery, Nature and Process
I'm beginning research for another Stitch Safari episode and came across Louise Gardiner's Cape of Empowerment. If you're at all interested in connecting natural inspiration with your embroidery, then keep reading. The Cape of Empowerment was commissioned in 2017 by...