I have been having a lot of fun over the last few months teaching Mixed Media Textiles at MAC Birmingham. This is a fabric collage piece based on the lovely village of Marken in the Netherlands.
The students are full of talent and creativity and sometimes it’s easier to show someone how they could approach their work, rather than explain it.
So I have been using ourĀ Amsterdam trip as inspirationĀ to re-aquaint myself with techniques and ways of working that I haven’t used recently while paintingĀ so as toĀ make a sketchbook of samples.
And boy have I had fun! And learnt some things long forgotten such as I love print, love using embroidery stitch to draw with, like trans foiling, like dying but still hate weaving – too slow!
