Saturday 13th May 11.00 – 3.30 (30 minutes for lunch) Cost: £17 (£22 for non members)
Learning Room at the Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne.
A practical workshop exploring how to capture landscape in fabric and stitch, participants will work from their own source materials drawings, photos, paintings and magazine images to develop an appliqué image of a landscape/scenery that is special to them; a particular view or an amalgamation – e.g. adding in a stunning sunset!
Requirements: basic sewing kit with scissors, pins, needles (Donna will bring some too), a glue stick, an image of landscape to work from, paper and pencil (Sketch book or copier paper – to make a pattern). Donna will provide pelmet vilenes and bondaweb at cost, there will also be lots of threads and fabrics for people to use on the day.
If you are interested in attending this workshop, email josephinecousin@googlemail.com.
The workshop costs £17 for members and £22 for non-members.
Donna specialises in appliqué and freestyle machine embroidery. Using her training in textile dyeing and printing, she hand-colours fabrics to act as a palette for the appliqué.
Working from observational drawings; compositions are recreated using this fabric palette to ‘paint’ the scene. Detail is built up with hand and machine stitch. The resulting pieces are rich in colour and texture.
Her recent ‘Urban Efflorescence’ series explores the beauty, purpose and tenacity of the wild flowers, often derided as weeds that grow in abundance around our towns and cities. Larger pieces evolve from sketchbook work created whilst walking in in Northumberland and Southern Scotland.
Along with making and exhibiting her own work, Donna encourages others to develop their creative skills through freelance classes, workshops and talks like this one. Donna studied textile design to Masters level and is a qualified teacher. Her work is exhibited in galleries and at art fairs around Britain and in 2016 Donna was the recipient of the Gold Award for Textile Art from Craft & Design Magazine. Donna is based in Newcastle upon Tyne.
For more information about Donna’s work visit: www.donnacheshiretextiles.com
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