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Sunday 23 February 2014

“Creative Icebreaking” - A talk by Angie Hughes, Friday 7th March 2014

We are delighted to be able to welcome back Angie Hughes for our March talk and workshop.

Angie’s artwork is inspired by many themes, but one of her favourites is poetry or text and the natural world, especially plant forms.

For people who find it hard to get started with ideas for making textile and embroidered pieces - and don't we all, at some time or another? - Angie will explain how she begins a project and works through solving problems, and her research experimenting with materials.



Workshop on Saturday 8th March with Angie Hughes, “Exploring Velvet”

The workshop which follows Angie's talk is based on the astonishing properties of velvet. This workshop will explore the effects that can be achieved with dyes, inks and bleaching back, in addition to transfoils, glitters and lumiere paint. 

At the end of the day you will leave with a shimmering piece of velvet to stitch at home.



About Angie......
Angie is a textile artist and tutor, who lives and works in Ledbury, Herefordshire. She has been interested in textiles since she left school although only discovered creative embroidery in 1994 when she began studying City & Guilds at Malvern Hills College. While a student she won the prestigious Charles Henry Foyle Trust Award for Stitched Textiles with her piece 'Unfolding Word' and had 'Shroud' accepted for Art of the Stitch. She carried on her studies at Gloscat with Liz Harding after which she discovered a talent for teaching. 

Sunday 9 February 2014

Black magic workshop

Saturday, 8th. February proved to be an exciting day. Ineke Berlyn worked with us to create some lovely pieces in what was a hardworking but relaxed day, due in no small part to her calm manner.
She introduced us to the idea of discharge printing, removing colour from fabric through a thermofax screen and then over printing, again using thermofax screens,  to create a unique fabric background that could be used for a variety of things including a bag if we so wished.
Watching the discharged images slowly appearing under the iron was fascinating. The overprinting and use of gold and silver and other metallic printing dyes was addictive and could be overdone far too easily. There were some riots of colour around the room.
By the end of the day, we had all produced some really interesting fabrics and it will be good to see how members develop them.


Members completed pieces of fabric.

The leaves were printed first and then the church was discharge printed giving a slightly ghostly quality.


The tree screen was interesting as the negative spaces were printed. On this piece the image was printed again.


There was the opportuntity to use lots of text screens. The beach huts were veru effective.


Lots of examples of completed fabrics.
Members at work.



Coffee and chat. The day schools offer lots of opportunities to catch up with friends.

 
 


Monday 3 February 2014

Coming in March: Talk by Angie Hughes ….

Watch this space for more details about Angie Hughes' talk on 7th March, 'Creative Icebreaking' ….