Julia Wright – Talk – ‘Landscape Surfaces’

Julia Wright explores a range of wrapping and binding, couching and hand embroidery techniques to create highly textural mixed media embroidered textiles inspired by repeated organic forms seen in growth patterns, weathered and worn surfaces and structures like driftwood, knotted tree roots, lichen and barnacles. The Landscape Surfaces presentation will explore inspirational starting points, her idea generation processes and explain some of the materials and techniques used to create her contemporary textiles pieces. A range of examples of her work, samples and sketchbooks will be available to view as part of the presentation.

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. 

Website: www.juliawright.co.uk

This talk is free to members of Textile Explorers

Doors open at 7pm, Sales table and free refreshments available