Wednesday 16 November 2011

Thinking about stitch

I have been thinking about stitch recently (before I started painting I was an embroiderer). I have always wanted to bring stitch and paint together but have never quite got around to it. Here are some artists that I am finding inspiring at the moment.

Emily Barletta




Matthew Harris




Roanna Wells





8 comments:

  1. I've just discovered your blog and I recognize what you're writing stitching and painting..

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  2. Thanks for your comment, I checked out your blog and I really like your work :)

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  3. These are very interesting - it shows, how it seems incompatible things, can be turned into something that looks good. I'll look forward to seeing some of your artwork - I asume you are going to have a go at something similar?

    Have a look at this: http://www.severija.lt/pirmas.php

    A Lithuanian artist who cross stitches metal things!

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  4. I didn't recognise the name but, I have seen this artists work before at the Cloth and Culture exhibition a few years ago. Thanks for the link very interesting.

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  5. This post took me right back to college. I wrote my dissertation on Contemporary Women Quiltmakers and I interviewed Mary Fogg
    http://www.quiltart.eu/maryfogg.html

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  6. Thanks for the link Anna, I have not seen the work of Mary Fogg before, I love all those stripes. My dissertation was on the marginalisation of embroidery and the art/craft debate that was going on at the time.

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  7. Thanks for the links - Emily Barletta's work just makes me want to stitch!

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  8. Me too, but I still haven't got around to it, to many ideas and not enough time. Thanks for your comment.

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