by Cathy Jack Coupland | Apr 1, 2022 | Books, Creativity, Inspiration
Being asked to be part of a new publication entitled ‘Finding Your Thread’, was a wonderful experience for me – but it was so very much more. ‘Finding Your Thread’ was curated by Anne Kempton, Gallerist of Australia’s only fibre art...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Mar 25, 2022 | Books, Creativity, Inspiration
Call me old-fashioned, but set me on a way forward that honours art, life, and beauty and I believe we’d do a lot to improve the human spirit. As a means of overcoming pressures, traumatic personal experiences or simply to fulfil that need to make, the road to...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Mar 4, 2022 | Creativity, Inspiration
Good old Buttonhole stitch. It must be among one of the first decorative stitches I learned. It’s uber versatile and yet so easy to work, creating a wonderfully restorative, relaxing rhythm as you stitch. I really don’t want to get too deep into the...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Feb 25, 2022 | Creativity, Inspiration
What is it about beads? I find them so beautiful and the process of working with them is so very meditative and relaxing. They’ve been around for thousands of years, yet they’re still popular – and so they should be. Beads now come in over 50...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Feb 18, 2022 | Creativity, Design
Teaching design is not easy. Teachers don’t know what you know and what you don’t know; they don’t know your strengths or weaknesses – nor your passions, beliefs, or feelings. And they’re the things that help inform and impact you as an...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Jan 21, 2022 | Creativity, Inspiration
Regardless of how we work as Textile Artists, we should always be asking ourselves that hugely important question, ‘what if? Normally routine and process-driven, my own work usually involves taking lots of images then distilling parts I find interesting into new...
