I am delighted to announce that Louise Baldwin will be giving a four day workshop in my studio in July next year. Louise is a member of the highly influential 62 Group of Textile Artists and a member of Art Textiles: Made In Britain, a group that regularly exhibits at Festival of Quilts. Aspects of her work combine mundane domestic packaging with layers of stitched imagery. She works directly with her materials, intuitively responding to them as she builds layers of imagery.

In this four day workshop you will explore ways of constructing, breaking down and reconstructing a series of stitched mixed media works using a range of materials based around found packaging, fabric and ephemera, alongside any imagery that you might find particularly evocative. As you join, cut up, wash away, paint, sand down and reconnect your materials you will be encouraged to investigate the qualities and abstract narrative that various approaches with both hand and machine stitch can create. 

You can find out more about Louise and the workshop here.

I still have some places left on workshops run by other guest tutors. Have a look at Poetry of Stitch with Christine Chester 20th to 24th September this year and Christine’s much delayed Poetry of Decay on 22nd to 26th November this year. I also have one place left on the delayed Rust Marks workshop with Alice Fox, now running on 22nd to 24th April next year.