JENNY BUNDOCK

The biggest influence to me are colour and flowers; they form the major theme in my work and my art. Colour in all forms excites me, from the riotous shades of exotic blooms to the pale blending of a cottage garden’s flowers. The form and shape of flowers are something I find of great interest be it a fantastic orchid or the humble dog-rose.

Most of my more recent work has included an element of felting by both hand and machine. As I dye threads fabrics and fibres for my living these are always incorporated into my art-work. Felting is a very satisfying process in either it’s wet or dry forms, it gives me freedom to work in representational or abstract forms, I combine this with hand and machine stitchery.

jenny@jgthreads.com

www.jgthreads.com

TRISHA FORSHAW

I am greatly influenced by the vibrancy of colour, which I interpret in different techniques using design sources of landscapes, woodlands and, recently, biological and cellular structures.  I use wool and silk fibres, a variety of threads wire, beads and materials, with machine and hand
embroidery. Living in the beautiful and varied county of Dorset provides endless sources of inspiration.

trisha.forshaw@btopenworld.com

CAROL GREEN

I love texture and therefore much of my work is heavily textured.   To achieve this I have experimented with many types of threads, cords, motifs, fabrics, plastics, metals, beads and hand made paper.

I also use paints, crayons, metallic wax and dyes including tea and coffee.   I like to combine machine and hand stitching to create the required texture.                     

carolgreen@thetardis.wannado.co.uk

MAGGIE GREY

My work features both hand and machine embroidery and the use of computer controlled machines. I work with mixed media techniques, which include burning, moulding and melting. New materials are of great interest.

Current obsessions include research on icons and mosaics. I am, at present, working on a series involving metal and stitch in which the icon research plays an important part. My sketchbooks are important to me and I scan drawings into the computer to work them up into designs. I am particularly drawn to distressed surfaces and my first instinct on being presented with a new material is to don a respirator and set fire to it.

maggie@workshopontheweb.com

Www.workshopontheweb.com

MAGGIE HILLS

Landscapes on my Mind – an extended series

Lines made by the plough or the tractor in fields of grain, the pattern in a field cut for hay. Combine with a lifetime’s visual images, memory-stored, and a sewing machine used as a pen. Landscapes grow from scribbles, doodles and drawings from observation and imagination.

mandthills@waitrose.com

ROSEMARY JARVIS

Rosemary Jarvis worked as a designer of printed fabrics before discovering the joys and challenges of stitched textiles.

"Tulips" as a theme offers so much to explore - prim, pink and prissy, or riotously striped and splotched, petals all over the place; stiff or supple; crammed in a vase or growing in the garden... endless opportunities.

jarvis.john@talk21.com

RUBY LEVER

My technique is constructing fabric by dyeing (many different types of fabric), piecing, patching and machining them together onto felt and calico to create a ground fabric for my hanging.  I then embellish with machine and hand embroidered slips, motives and little framed mirrors.  I finally added the tassels using hand made cords, shapes and beads.

rubylever@hotmail.com

CARLA MINES

I have spent many years teaching art/embroidery to children and adults. In 2003 I embarked on a personal journey and was accepted on a Textile Art degree course at Winchester School of Art.

For the last year my work has been concerned with plastic. Most people believe that by recycling their plastic bags and bottles they are helping to protect the Earth. My work has tried to demonstrate that recycling plastic is a 21st century myth. The alternatives for its disposal are to bury it in an ever decreasing landfill space or burn it in incinerators. Councils across the country are opting to burn it. Plans to build more incinerators are increasing. Incinerators do not destroy waste only transform it into ash, gases and particulate matter. These gases and the poisons (dioxins) are spewed out into the atmosphere, to the air, which we eventually breathe. These dioxins are invisible to the eye and I believe that it is the artists job to make the invisible visible.

This piece is called ‘Dum Spiro Spero’ (loosely translated it means while I breathe, I hope). The Earth’s ecosystem is finely balanced and most people are unaware of what is happening to their environment. I used Leonardo da Vinci’s easily recognised ‘Homo Vitruvianus’ which appears as a model of perfection and harmony to illustrate the need for this balance.

Tel: 01225 702720

YVONNE MORTON

In a deliberate departure from her established work, Yvonne makes her fibre cloth of raphia, silk, flax and muslin, with the addition of hand and machine stitch. Using a restrained colour palette, loose pattern contrasts with larger areas of rest.

Tel. 01425 276601

LYNNE PROSSER

 I am inspired by huge vistas and small rooms.
My work features mountain ranges and canyons in far away places but I sometimes use domestic interiors as starting points for design.
I aim to produce pieces that are richly embroidered and vibrantly coloured and use a combination of collage, hand and machine embroidery to achieve an interesting surface area.
At present I am working on a series called Hidden Houses based on the ruined settlement in Mesa Verde in Colorado in the U.S.A.

lynneandclive@freeuk.com

BRENDA WEEKS

My art is currently influenced by the artists Paul Klee and Hundertwasser and I have been experimenting with innovative techniques incorporating fabric, paper, paint and stitch.   I draw upon a number of sources for inspiration and I like my work to convey a sense of fun.

I love the excitement of layering up colours and fabrics and never being quite sure what is going to happen.   Layer upon layer, creating new colours and depths or juxtaposing different colours against one another - colour has such power.

brendaweeks@btopenworld.com

www.thefabricofart.com