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Lesley Wood, Furnished with Memories (detail) When Lesley Wood inherited her mother's cross stitch stash and tried to replicate her own fine art paintings on fabric, she was frustrated that her stitches were thick and clumsy. Not to be deterred, she joined her local Embroiderers' Guild, and in a few short years became an award winning textile artist. Stitched Portraits, Embroidered Portrait, Fine Art Textiles, Creative Textiles, Contemporary Textiles, Contemporary Embroidery, Embroidered Art, A Level Art, Modern Embroidery

Lesley Wood, Furnished with Memories (detail) When Lesley Wood inherited her mother's cross stitch stash and tried to replicate her own fine art paintings on fabric, she was frustrated that her stitches were thick and clumsy. Not to be deterred, she joined her local Embroiderers' Guild, and in a few short years became an award winning textile artist.

Bridget Steel-Jessop: Self-portrait (detail) Unable to carve out a career path in medieval tapestry weaving, Bridget Steel-Jessop set about finding other jobs that could utilise her textile design skills and love of people. But it was only when her son became more independent that she could honour her innate creativity. She bought a stitch dictionary and, after five years of 'hard stitching', finally found the confidence to state 'I am a textile artist'. Patchwork, Upcycling, Embroidery Poster Design, Eyeball Embroidery, Embroidery Collage, Embroidery Eyes, Eye Embroidery, Sculpture Textile, Textiles Sketchbook

Bridget Steel-Jessop: Self-portrait (detail) Unable to carve out a career path in medieval tapestry weaving, Bridget Steel-Jessop set about finding other jobs that could utilise her textile design skills and love of people. But it was only when her son became more independent that she could honour her innate creativity. She bought a stitch dictionary and, after five years of 'hard stitching', finally found the confidence to state 'I am a textile artist'.

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Tied Up in Red Tape is a mixed media work of fine art, woven on a loom, exclusively in the Palma Store, Fine Art Gallery, the Money Weavings @pamelapalmadesigns.com

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I first discovered the beautiful work of Alice Kettle in 1997, in an exhibition organised by Art Angels in the Neo-Natal department at King's College Hospital, Camberwell. At the time I had never seen anybody use fibre/textiles based crafts to create a body of work with fine art sensibilities like this before. She uses the humble sewing machine to actually paint and draw pictures of the human body. She was originally a fine art painter who then made the successful transition to thread and…

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