'Interwoven' - A talk by textile artist, Vinny Stapley

Friday 7th May, 6.45 for 7.00pm 

‘Interwoven’ 

Vinny talks about her family history and her working life in fashion and textiles 

and how they have influenced her Textile Art.

With a background in fashion textiles, Vinny now combines creating textile art with running workshops from her studio on Mersea Island in Essex, where she lives. Much of her work has focused on the natural ephemera of the landscape, in particular the fringes of the Blackwater, exploring marshes and tidelines through abstracted stitched form.

Her current body of work ‘Mersea Floriligeum’ is focused on exploring flora of the saltmarsh and inter-tidal zone, whose delicate natural forms and fine network of roots literally ‘mesh’ together parts of our fragile coastline. Vinny is a member of the East Textile group and her work was recently featured on the international textile website textileartist.org. 

Saturday 8th May 

Practical session

Friday night's talk will be followed by the start of a mini workshop called  

‘Scrap bag Challenge’ 

You will need a notebook, some plain paper and a pen to hand.

Instructions will be sent out after Friday's talk for you to refer to, 

with stitching to be done on the Saturday morning. 

-  Show and tell on Zoom: 2:45 for 3:00 pm -

with Vinny Stapley in attendance.

This will be an opportunity to ask questions and 

Vinny will finish by offering advice on how to move the pieces forward.