The Textile Artist - Expressive Stitches by Jan Dowson is a 'no-rules' guide to creating original textile art. Jan demonstrates how to create awe-inspiring, beautifully stitched textile art full of detail, colour and expression - whether it's inspired by a landscape, garden, animal or memory!
In Expressive Stitches Jan guides you through her creative process, beginning with collecting and storing natural items. As the book progresses she encourages you to explore different patterns, texture, media and markings which will all influence your final designs. Simple but effective methods are used to alter fabrics before they are stitched - these include dyeing, embellishing and stamping. Jan then shows how to transform your altered fabrics into vibrant, textured artwork using a combination of traditional hand stitching, machine stitching and other media.
After discussing her techniques, Jan guides you through some step-by-step projects. See how her three most renowned pieces of work are created: the stitched landscape, the memory cloth and the bird sculpture. Each project has a full breakdown of materials, tool and techniques so you can understand and see the development of her creations. This book is sure to inspire any textile artist!
144 page paperback. 216 x 280 mm
Award-winning textile art tutor and artist Jan Dowson has over 20 years of teaching experience. She won the prestigious Beryl Dean National Teaching Award in 2015, and was the 2014/15 winner of the UK’s City & Guilds Gold Medal of Excellence.
She loves to help beginners to start on their own creative journeys, and so regularly delivers absorbing, fun workshops as well as offering talks and taking part in the Embroiderers’ Guild’s summer schools around the UK. Jan exhibits her work frequently and has experienced great success over the years. She loves embroidery and never feels fully satisfied unless the surfaces she works on are completely covered in stitch. Her finished pieces include machine and hand embroidery, appliqué and mixed media.
She works intuitively and strongly believes that there are no rules for creativity, focusing on the freedom of working naturally and organically, with a view to developing ideas that will produce unique and exciting results.
Jan lives in north-east Lincolnshire, UK, with her husband Derek and dog Bertie.
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