Julia Wright – Workshop – Landscape Surfaces
Students will experiment with fabric manipulation techniques including wrapping and binding, entrapment and hand couching to create colourful, textural, mixed media pieces inspired by close-up details seen in landscapes and coastal areas. We will work with mixed natural fabrics to create structural fabric forms which can then be combined and hand stitched onto backing fabrics to begin a more resolved composition or remain as a series of separate samples.
No previous experience is needed
Materials required
All participants will need
- 2-3 reels of sewing threads to suit their chosen colour palette
- hand sewing needles (including an embroidery needle)
- scissors
- small pieces of wadding/old cushion stuffing
- embroidery hoop
Optional
- delicate fabric scraps (silk, muslin, scrim, ramie, organdie, thin linen)
- Embroidery threads
Sewing threads and embellishments will be provided
Optional resource packs/dyed fabrics will be available to buy
About Julia
Julia trained in Applied Design at Edinburgh College of Art and has been teaching Textiles and exhibiting for over 25 years. Now based in Manchester, England her textural mixed media textiles pieces suggest fragments of landscape without being figurative. Work is inspired by weathered, organic, irregular forms and the repetition of simple shapes, like clusters of barnacles, knotted tree roots and growth patterns of lichen.