Jane Arthur – Workshop – Taking a Walk
June 19 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
£20.00 – £45.00
About the Artist
Jane works in mixed media, collage and textiles. She has travelled extensively with two very memorable trips to Antarctica in 2002 and 2020 where she fell in love with this cold but beautiful place. Her work takes inspiration from landscape and memory whether it is a local walk or marvelling at icebergs. She is fascinated by stone circles and the evidence of early people in the landscape.
She builds her work in layers starting with a base fabric and adding collage, paint and stitch. She reuses and recycles fabric, bringing the evidence of previous use (buttons, unpicked seams, darts etc), left over scraps and threads into her work.
She moved to Worcester in 2018 and joined the Bevere Gallery Artists Studios in November 2022. She regularly exhibits with the Midlands Textile Forum and is a member of On the Surface Group in Moseley, Birmingham taking part in Birmingham Open Studios and of Stitch Together Textiles.
See her work on – Instagram: @jatextileart Facebook: www.facebook.com/JATextileArt
Midlands Textile Forum https://www.midlandstextileforum.com/jane-arthur
Workshop
This workshop explores capturing a sense of place using a favourite walk or location. We’ll work with images and maps of your favourite place to select fabrics with matches of colour, texture and pattern with the aim of creating a collage approx A4 in size which we will then work further with additional fabric and hand stitch.
Preparation
What you need to do before you come to the workshop –Take some photographs of the walk/location – what is your favourite spot/view?
- Remind yourself of your favourite season for walking there, time of day, how it makes you feel to be there
- Print off a google-earth view
- Look at OS maps, information on the walk/location.
Bring your images, maps, notes to the workshop
What to bring with you
- Sewing kit, scissors etc
- Embroidery/stitch threads in different weights
- A4 size (approx) backing fabric – recycle old napkins, sheets or shirts if you can. Do not make your backing fabric too heavy as building up layers will make the piece hard to stitch through – or so thin that it is too flimsy!
- Small selection of light/medium weight fabrics (cotton, linen, polycotton etc) that match the colours/patterns/texture of your walk. Chose fabrics that don’t fray and recycle as much as you can.
- Fabric scraps from previous work.
If you are interested in using them you can also bring Inktense crayons, fine pens (choose ones that don’t run on fabric).
What will be provided
- a large selection of fabric to delve into
- fabric scraps for layering – eg net, organdie
- Small pieces of Bondaweb and iron-on Vylene
Workshop outline
Introduction
Session 1 – bring together your ideas and plan your work
Session 2 – create your initial collage, review and add detail
Lunch
Session 3 – explore stitches for the final layer
Session 4 – where next and options for further development
This is a predominantly hand stitched workshop. If you bring any electrical equipment (sewing machine, heat gun etc), this will need to be PAT tested in advance.
Booking Terms and Conditions:
The fee is non-refundable if you cancel (unless another person can take your place.)
We occasionally have a waiting list for a workshop and if that is the case your place would be offered to the next person on the list. If there isn’t a waiting list then you might know someone who could take your place.
With this in mind, please let Bookings know as soon as possible if you are unable to attend.
Bookings queries please email bookings@texgroup.org.uk
Tea / coffee and biscuits provided – remember to bring your own lunch.