Wednesday, December 1st - Talk "The Fabric of my Life" by Laura Edgar

 We started our December meeting with a fabulous zoom talk from the textile artist Laura Edgar. Laura is based in Whitley Bay and her work certainly reflects the inspiration she gets from living on our eastern coastline.

Laura explained that she was fascinated by art at an early age and the illustrations she showed of her painting work, demonstrated the amazing skill she had in this field.

Laura qualified in Textile Design at university and continued her career as a freelance textile designer creating embellished fabrics for the fashion market with a focus on embroidery. She now works in the mediums of textiles and mixed media, exploring an eclectic mix of vintage, recycled fabrics, and ephemera and incorporates embroidery and painting techniques to create original art landscape pieces.

Laura guided us step by step through the processes that she employed to create this breath-taking artwork. Her choice of colours, manipulated fabric and stitch is so carefully chosen to create stunning textile pieces.

A big thank you to Laura for sharing her inspirational work with us this morning. 

Below are some wonderful examples of Laura's work.

Next Meetings: Wednesday November 17th workshop "Stitching on Leaves and Feathers", Wednesday December 1st, 10.00am talk "The Fabric of my Life" by Laura Edgar

 Stitching on leaves and feathers to create striking visual effects.

The zoom talk given to our members by Richard Box at our last meeting was an excellent introduction to the art of machine embroidery. Thank you Richard for coming to the rescue at such short notice. We were sorry to hear that our organised speaker had gone down with covid and we wish her a hasty recovery.

Richard revealed the techniques used to create stunning pieces of fabric art. He paints directly from nature, taking numerous photographs and then using collage and hand machine embroidery techniques produces wonderful textile pieces.