Tag: embroidery

Another Monday — Needlepoint and Friends Part Two

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Just about the last nice day in October where the sun is bright, air is warm, and breeze doesn’t knock you over with its enthusiasm.

I love the precision of needlework and the intricacy of fiberwork. The ability to concentrate on minute details is something I find amazing. The skill, the patience, all makes for amazing work. Let’s visit a few more talented artists….

 

Masayo Fukuda

 

Kazuhito Takadoi

 

Sally England

 

Debbie Smyth

 

Aline Campbell

 

Paulina Bartnik

 

 

The Unicorn Tapestries

 

 

Larsa Bernhardt

 

Kimika Hara

 

Tali Weinberg

Looking Back on Monday — Needlepoint and Friends Part One

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A lovely day for just about anything you’d like to go, any place you’d like to wander! 

How about we take a wander back through some of my Needlepoint and Friends Galleries? I mean — a stitch in time makes nine — whatever that means — a stitch back in time makes for eleven great Galleries!!

 

Marina Printseva

 

 

Richard Preston

 

Ana Teresa Barboza

 

 

Vera Shimunia

 

Susanna Bauer

 

 

Michelle Kingdom

 

 

Yarn Bombing

 

 

Aiko Tezuka

 

Natalie Ciccoricco

 

Meredith Woolnough

 

Justyna Wołodkiewicz

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Helen Richman

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Helen Richman is an embroidery instructor at the Royal School of Needlework at Hampton Court Palace, London.

Her embroidery journey began when she joined the Royal School of Needlework and completed the three-year apprenticeship, gaining expert knowledge in many fields of hand embroidery.The artist designs and creates her own projects, including stumpwork, a style of embroidery in which the stitched figures are raised from the surface of the work to form a 3-dimensional effect.This style of needlework offers the freedom of combining all sorts of stitches and techniques together in a single design, with a three-dimensional quality.Richman enjoys the finesse and intricacy of goldwork, silk shading and crewelwork. “I particularly enjoyed designing and creating my own projects and I think this is what led me to love Stumpwork so much,” Richman shares.“The playful mixture of threads, fabrics and color; the freedom of combining all sorts of stitches and techniques together in a single design, and the three-dimensional quality of this embroidery.”More of Helen Richman’s remarkable embroidery can be found at https://www.bluebirdembroidery.co.uk,  https://royal-needlework.org.uk/tutor/helen-richman/ and https://www.sofst.org/helen-richman-stitching-britains-wildlife/.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Rachel Wright

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 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.

More of Rachel Wright‘s amazing embroidery can be found at https://rachelwright.com/.

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Rachel Wright

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Rachel Wright is a textile artist based in Buckinghamshire, England.Wright studied fashion and textiles at Birmingham City University, graduating with both a Bachelors and Masters degree.Wright’s main focus is embroidery, taking inspiration from landscapes and cityscapes, along with  having a particular love of the sea, harbor towns, boats and lighthouses.The shapes, colors and details from these inspirations are then borrowed and echoed in delicately hand or machine embroidered fabric collages using vibrant threads that are worked onto papers and fabrics.Her art work stands out because of her striking use of rich color which captivates and draws the viewer in and delights the eye.“I  describe my art as textile art and machine embroidery, but there are many different descriptions these days which seem to fit the bill too,” Wright shares.“Other people call it free motion embroidery, quilt art, and thread painting,  but I’ve never felt really comfortable with these descriptions.”“My technique is basically my way of painting except I’m using fabrics as my palette, the needle as my brush, and the threads as my mark making.”

More of Rachel Wright’s amazing needlework can be found at https://rachelwright.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/RachelSetford/. 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Larysa Bernhardt

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Larysa Bernhardt, an artist based in Missouri, creates brilliant colorful moths by using old tapestries.The moths often showcase beautiful images of historical people, birds, animals, and flowers on their wings.The idea for this unlikely art form came from Bernhardt’s longtime fascination with nostalgic textiles. The artist began by collecting vintage textiles, including silk tapestries and wool, and was interested in analyzing and unraveling their histories, taking an interest in how creatures, such as moths, often inhabit such materials.To ensure they stayed in good condition, she habitually checked for moth larvae in the folds of the cloth.This ritual triggered the idea of merging the delicate cloth fabric with its natural “enemy.”As a result, the artist also discovered a new love and appreciation for the winged insect and says she is inspired by the way moths tirelessly and fearlessly reach for the light. Bernhardt learned the skill of turning tapestries into art works from her mother, just like she learned it from hers.

 

More of Larysa Bernhardt‘s fascinating tapestry moths can be found at https://www.larysabernhardt.com/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Paulina Bartnik

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Poland-based artist Paulina Bartnik creates realistic-looking embroidered brooches of birds.The artist graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and is very passionate about embroidery.While it may be hard to see the abundance of bird species in the world in person, Bartnik  immortalizes their portraits in exquisite embroidered brooches.She uses her meticulous stitching techniques to render the unique appearance of each feathered creature—from barn owls to hummingbirds.She uses the needle painting technique, which she feels perfectly imitates bird feathers.Beginning with a background of felt sheets, the artist creates a combination of short and long stitches in a variety of colors to produce a textile effect.The faces of her embroidered birds feature all of their distinct markings, which make them appear incredibly real.Not only that, but the variety of hues she uses to create the feathers make it seem like the texture of the bird shimmers in the light.In general, I’m a little bit of a chaotic and impatient person,” Bartnick admits. “Embroidery helps me focus and calm down. I don’t treat it as a job, for me it’s a way to relax.”More of Paulina Bartnik’s amazing embroidery can be found at https://embirdery.com/.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Katrin Vates

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Katrin Vates is an embroidery artist that has started to gain a following for her beautifully embroidered landscapes.Vates grew up in a small town in Siberia, but now calls the United States home where she raises her family.Using bleached canvas as a base, Vates works with thread in natural color palettes of greens or autumnal hues that she lays in variable lengths and thicknesses.Vates evokes the lushness of the great outdoors through embroidery. Her meticulously detailed landscapes depict tall trees and hidden houses via tiny stitches.She rarely sketches a preliminary design and never attaches a hoop, which allows more freedom to adjust both the image and the ways weather and sunlight impact the scenes.If you’ve ever stitched before, you might think Vates’ work is all French knots— the tiny balls that dot the surface of the fabric.And while French knots are part of her stitch repertoire, Vates also employs the regular straight stitch and chain stitch.“I have learned how to use the straight stitch in such a way that it can be difficult to distinguish it from a French knot,” Vates shares.“Such technique allows me to bring more realism into my embroidery.”More of Katrin Vates’ extraordinary stitchery can be found at https://taplink.cc/katrin.vates and https://www.instagram.com/katrin.vates/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — ​Justyna Wołodkiewicz

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​Justyna Wołodkiewicz is a Contemporary Embroidery Artist from Poland who specializes in three-dimensional embroidery.

Taking inspiration from her surroundings as well as a strong awareness of her own creative process, Wołodkiewicz uses vibrant colors and breadth of contrasting textures and shapes to create finished pieces that are both technically complicated and incredibly whimsical. She specializes in combining tiny abstract sculptures (made of bright colored polymer clay)  with traditional art of stitching by hand.The clay is baked in the oven before implementing.Then everything is composed: threads, sculptures, colors, textures.When Wołodkiewicz designs her art she feels like all these candies are dancing in her circle.Her choices are intuitive and spontaneous, a subconscious translation of bouquets of feelings.Some pieces follow the harmony rules, resembling splashed rainbows; others are footprints of exploration into conflict and ambivalence.“Since the art lives in my heart, it will evolve together with me,” Wołodkiewicz says.“The message will become clearer and clearer. Therefore I love to explore constantly realms of spirituality, energy and self-healing.”More of ​Justyna Wołodkiewicz‘s amazing embroidery can be found at http://nibyniebo.com/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Meredith Woolnough

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Meredith Woolnough‘s elegant embroidered drawings capture the beauty and fragility of nature in knotted threads.

Woolnough is an internationally acclaimed, award winning artist from Newcastle, Australia.Through the use of freehand machine embroidery and soluble materials, she creates a new version of the natural world.

The exacting application of the simplest of stitches is used to create amazing embroidered works that reflect the beauty of life itself.Woolnough creates new pieces using references from physical specimens, taking care to examine and understand the construction of each piece.

She first maps out the complex arrangement of her design onto a cloth and then uses a sewing machine to create the sculpted piece.

When she is finished, the base fabric dissolves in water, leaving only the artist’s beautifully detailed stitch work.

She then mounts each piece with pins onto paper, setting it slightly away from the background to create shadows and depth that add to the allure of the piece.

More of Meredith Woolnough‘s elegant embroidery can be found at http://meredithwoolnough.com.au/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery (midweek) — Hinke Schreuders

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Hinke Schreuders has been making small paintings or drawings on canvas with needle and thread since 2002. She draws on both 1950s advertising images of women and personal photographic material, attached them to linen, then added  embroidery and designs that heightens the beauty  of the photos.Her technique, embroidery, appears to be innocent, but her carefully constructed compositions evoke associations with more sinister undercurrents in a language that is prosaic and poetic at the same time. Ideas such as abstracted bubbles, flowers, and embroidery that resembles old-fashioned brocade drift in and out around the images.Schreuders art showcases real women behind the colors and patterns.With the added dimension of the surface embroidery, both the handiwork and the photo beneath become a new entity.Schreuders says she seeks to “subtly confuse notions of feminine vulnerability and reinforce the position of embroidery as an artistic medium.”

More of Hinke Schreuders‘ wonderful work can be found at http://sudsandsoda.com.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Michelle Kingdom

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Born and raised in Los Angeles, Michelle Kingdom studied drawing and painting in college. As a self-taught embroidery artist, Michelle has been quietly creating figurative narratives in thread for two decades.Her stitched tableaus and landscapes depict individuals caught in the middle of intriguing yet ambiguous situations like something out of a dream, with characters lost in worlds out of their control or in the process of searching for meaning.Decidedly small in scale, the scenes are densely embroidered into compressed compositions.Kingdom has chosen to create small scale works that whisper untold truths,  and embroidery is the medium she felt was the best to share such powerful stories.Her work is inspired from personal mythologies, art history references, and other symbolic and allegorical content.The artist says, “I describe my work as drawing with thread. I think, plan and execute as a draftsman. Most all of my work is filled and dense, but it is still composed of zillions of skinny lines.”More of Michelle Kingdom’s intricate workings can be found at https://michellekingdom.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/michelle.kingdom.

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery on Wednesday — Ana Teresa Barboza

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Ana Teresa Barboza creates colorful embroidery art that depicts natural forms found in plant life and landscapes.

Barboza has been drawn to creating full landscapes with yarn and thread, embroidering large tapestries with rivers, valleys, and waves that spill out from the wall and rest on the floor. 

Born in Lima, Perú in 1980,  Barboza lives and works in her native city.  

Her use of manual crafts became the means to convey a meditative and powerful observation with the environment and her relationship with reality. 

Barboza’s work pushes the boundaries of embroidery by incorporating different disciplines, such as illustration and photography.

 

More of Ana Teresa Barboza’s amazing tapestries can be found at http://anateresabarboza.blogspot.com.

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Marina Printseva

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Talented and unique artist Marina Printseva was born in 1949 in the city of Pskov, Russia.

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She is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, and a member of the International design and textiles Association.

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Her technique is a brilliant mixture of embroidery, painting and application.

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Marina created a special world filled with poetic images and metaphors influenced by Old World St. Petersburg

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Her work is populated by visions and shadows from the past.

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You can tell by the delicate work and mixed media that her visions are intricate and true.

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You can find more of Marina Printseva‘s inspirational work at Marina Printseva and unique-art-by-marina-printseva.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Richard Preston

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Talented Canadian artist Richard Preston has been experimenting with textures and shapes all his life.

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In 1979  Preston began to establish West Coast Jacket – the first in a series of military jackets.

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Beading or embroidering them, he creates a different story or on every jacket.

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Army clothing embroidered with the sun, clouds, scattering stars, river flows, flowers (including a lush pink wreath on the head of the skeleton symbolizing death), and  designs with a touch of psychedelic aesthetics, makes a strong and rather contradictory impression, turning each jacket – originally impersonal thing – in a unique and truly conceptual object.

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Preston, working with new material, draws attention to global problems, in particular, demilitarization.

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Preston does not limit himself by the narrow direction in art, trying himself as a painter, sculptor, designer, photographer, writer, actor, and musician.

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One of his hobbies was working with beads, and for nearly thirty years he made original creations, filled with real ethnic motifs and vibrant energies of the author.

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A series “stratigraphy” is devoted to geology. With ribbons, threads and beads, the artist tried to show different periods of his work, as well as layers of different rocks of the earth tells the story of its formation.

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More of Richard Preston’s work can be found at http://viola.bz/richard-prestons-textile-art/ and at http://www.prestvilleartsite.com/.

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