Artist Louise Baldwin will be teaching her Accidently on Purpose workshop in my studio in July (Sunday 24th to Wednesday 27th July) and I spoke with her recently about her current work and what she aims to achieve during the workshop. She also shared some new images.

Talking about the images Louise told me -

‘This is some of the work that was on show recently where I’ve pushed together all sorts of bits and pieces from guitar necks to pegs, book covers and cake tin bases. Entangled with stitch and gestural marks in gold thread or wire and beads. The theme was Found and most of the materials were found in my studio as I tried to sift through the years of collecting in preparation to move house. I love working in a non hierarchical way with materials, where a bit of old worn paper is as important as a pearl; a staple as important as couched gold thread. I will often work on larger pieces and break them down into smaller works or layer them up to create depth and unexpected collisions of materials.’

Louise is a member of The 62 Group of Textile Artists and has exhibited internationally. Its fascinating to see how her work has developed in recent years away from 2D pieces into these fabulous 3D collections of found objects.

Talking about the workshop Louise said ‘I hope that, in our workshop, we will get to knock lots of ideas and materials around, make lots of mistakes and accidents and select out the most exciting and parts to develop.’

With a requirements list that includes ‘A little collection of odd stuff like wooden skewers, thin metal, feathers, buttons, metal zip, fake flowers, clips, broken jewellery, plastic lids …..   -  the kind of odd stuff that kicks around in drawers for some reason’ I can’t wait to see what happens!

There are still two places available on her workshop. You can find out more here.