Yes, this month’s column is all about needle felted cats. My latest body of work is inspired by the beautiful and strange sphynx breed, so I’ve spent the last few months thinking of little else, but it seems I may not be the only one with visions of kitty cats dancing through my head. This month, I am pleased to bring you some truly wonderful cat sculptures that I have recently discovered. Here is some Kitty Cat Felt…
Stumpwork Flowers by Sachiko Morimoto is an excellent instruction book for helping you apply one of the more challenging embroidery techniques in a floral context. It is a must-have for the keen embroiderer and will empower you to make elegant flower embroideries for friends and loved ones.
Nicki is Utopian Fallopian, a non-binary textile artist from Glasgow who transforms vulvas into a multitude of possibilities.
In Quarantine Quilts: Creativity In The Midst Of Chaos by Sandra Sider, learn directly from makers personal notes and quotes what moved them to create their individual art quilts, which are all inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic. Discover how the experiences which the artists went through enabled them to develop new ways of artistic thinking. Read how the pandemic experience has allowed them to connect to creativity. Topics include Home Is Where The Heart Is and Pandemic Landscapes.
Here we will discuss ‘The Art Is The Cloth: How to Loot at and Understand Tapestries’ which has been published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd in our column Lets Book.
Today we focus on the career of textile art designer Ruri Clarkson. This artist works as a visual artist who delves into feminist issues. They are translated and vocalised via illustrations and embroidery. She depicts fantastical scenes, fairytale visuals and motifs, often grounded in Chinese embroidery.
Nature is a focus of interest for Marian Jazmik and used massively through her work in textile art. This book Textures From Nature in Textile Art is her first published book. It comprises of content alluding to nature and how it can be used to create textile art pieces.
Pre CO-VID19 this book would have not come into exitance, its content not there to be inspired by in the first place and thus written about. Yet the pandemic happened and Cas Holmes as an experienced and celebrated textile practitioner shows through visual evidence how we can move forward and use what we have, not what we have to travel far and wide to glean. Within this textile art publication, she heads a new way of working, a new way of thinking and living our artistic existence out to the full.
In this Stitchgasm we take a look at the mixed media sculpture work by Hélène Caperna. She is a French artist and one who looks at serious themes in a colourful way, using felt and fabric together.
Ian Berry is a UK based textile artist who coerces denim fabric to create mind blowing portraits and landscape studies that are incredibly realistic, exploring themes like American nostalgia and contemporary intimacy.
Zoe Williams reviews wearable felt art items and the people who make them. Often animal and nature inspired, such as a hand felted hedgehog, what is not to love? Readers are encouraged to visit the artists websites and also create their own needle-felt or hand felted pieces of wearable felt.
Today I am interviewing Kasie Campbell and her exploration into the grotesque feminine forms she creates and inhabits in her performance art, challenging ‘acceptable’ female beauty.
