Libby, who is a Textile and Mixed Media Artist from North Essex, gave us a really interesting talk via Zoom last night about her inspirations, how she has developed her techniques and her current body of work.
She is a long-standing member of East Anglia Stitch Textiles, with whom she has regularly exhibited her work at Braintree Museum and the Knitting & Stitching Shows, among many other venues.
Libby told us that her work is inspired by art, especially the still lifes of Ben and Winifred Nicholson, poetry and local landscapes. She aims for a painterly effect in thread, and her passion is mainly for hand embroidery, especially kantha stitch, which creates movement in fabric.
She dyes her own fabrics, creating a palette of colour and mark making to use in her collages. Developing her own style has been very important - you may be familiar with her rolling landscapes which she has been doing for a number of years.
In the last few years Libby has also taken up pottery, which has proved to be a useful aid in moving her work on and giving her a fresh perspective. Painter and printmaker, Giorgio Morandi's harmonious still life compositions of pots, bowls and vases have been a particular influence.
Libby’s work can be seen on the EAST website, on Instagram and in Wowbook 5 published earlier this year.
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