Scroll down the page for information on individual artists from the East Anglian Stitched Textile group - click on an artist's name and be taken to more information on that individual and their work. This page will continue to be updated - so check back from time to time to find out about an individual's current inspiration.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click here to return to home page

 

Janette Bright -

While researching the archives of the Foundling Hospital, I have developed an interest in the eighteenth century era in general and the Age of Enlightenment.

My new work looks as subjects as varied as abolition of slavery and museums and collecting. In particular I am looking at women in the Enlightenment era.

 

Susan Canfield - 

Inspired by Alexandra Harris’s book “Romantic Moderns” I have researched some of the leading British artists of the 1930s.

My new exhibit, in Harris’s words, writing elsewhere, attempts to feel “for the significance of unremarkable things, knowing that emotion accrues in places you might not at first suspect.”

Melinda Berkovitz -

"Staying with the theme of water movement, I am now studying the Sea of Galilee (a large fresh water lake near my home in Israel), which has seen its water levels severely depleted in recent years."

June Carroll - "Much of my work is modular.  The units are stitched together to make a whole.  The work may contain computer printed images, Grilon thread, various fabrics including paper, hand stitching and paint."  June's current interest focuses on maps, seeing how towns have developed and what was there first - brickworks, claypits, even sewage works - the original brown field sites!

Diana Christopher - "I find inspiration for my work from a variety of sources, but the shapes, lines, and patterns in nature are particular favourites at the moment.  I am currently using the structure of seed heads, leaves, buds and flowers as my design starting ponts and am exploring the possibilities of three dimensional work.  I really enjoy machine embroidery and love to play with the use of colour."

Carol Dixon - Industrial decay is the inspiration behind Carol's current body of work. 

 

Liz Hammond - "Inspired by several dives under the beautiful tropical waters of the Caribbean, Liz compared the reaction of the wind, currents, tide and sun on the coral to the mixed emotions she had experienced during a particularly challenging period of time."

Tricia North - "I'm looking at connections and fastenings, playing with the combinations of texture - metal against cloth against stone against wood, and how the use of stitch can change the feel" 

 

Anne Norton-  "I love exploring different techniques and sources to express my creativity.  My visit to Russia led me to produce work based on ancient icons and my tour of India to an exploration of beading and goldwork, and the splendour of ethnic dowry jewellery.  A recent study at the Warner Archive in Braintree has led me into African textiles expecially the Kuba Tribal Confederacy in Central Africa - this I can see influencing my work for quite a while."

Delia Pusey- "Tranquil gardens symbolic plants and flowers, towers and temples, mountains and landscapes - all these provide inspiration for my current work."

 

Lorna Rand- The inspiration for Lorna's new work is based on graffiti.

 

Libby Smith - The inspiration for Libby's new work is based on the life of 19th century women, and in particular that of the poet Emily Dickinson.

 

Margaret Talbot- "Decaying lobster pots, rusting fishing tackle and rotting nets lay strewn upon sand and quay, abandoned, where once lived a thriving industry."

Julie Topsfield- "The patterns and colours that can be found in the feathers of birds has been my inspiration and starting point for this body of work."

Jenny Langley - "I am drawn to abstract designs and enigmatic elements.  A recurring theme of 'hidden, secret, enclosed and precious' unintentional pervades much of my work.  Occasionally my scientific past resurfaces, such as my latest work connected with the structure of proteins which led me into collagraph printing from textiles."

Ellen Devall-  "I am interested in social history, concerning women and their perceived “place” through the centuries.  Over the last two years I have been studying the contrasts between the often poverty stricken lives of working class women who used the needle arts for survival, and the women who were able to purchase and wear the fruits of their labour…the very fragments that I now use to tell stories in cloth and stitch."

Don't forget to check out our blog page and our gallery pages to see further images of EAST activities and members work.

 

For information on EAST @ The Warner Textile Archive and how you can get this exhibition to come to you, visit the Warner page. 

For more information on our latest exhibitions and activities return to the Home page.