Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Rachel Wright

Rachel Wright is an embroidered textile artist from Buckinghamshire, England.Wright studied fashion and textiles at Birmingham City University and undertook both a BA and an MA course there before graduating to set up her own business in 1994.Her beautiful machine embroidery often depicts nature, and the combination of her attention to detail and artistic flair makes her work incredibly life like while elevating the subject into vivid and compelling images.The artist takes her inspiration from landscapes and cityscapes and has a particular love of the sea, harbor towns, boats and lighthouses.The shapes, colors and details of these subject matter are then borrowed and echoed in delicately hand or machine embroidered fabric collages using vibrant threads worked onto papers and fabrics.Wright usually begins with a pencil sketch straight onto the background material which is always cotton calico.From there she starts to cut and lay down little pieces of fabric, choosing carefully the appropriate pieces, and once she’s happy she begins to stitch, sewing down the fabric scraps.Wright doesn’t use bonding or pins or any kind of glue or stabilizer. She builds up slowly and gradually, working in small areas at a time until the piece starts to come together.