Description
“Flowers in Her Hair’
Collect from gallery £750
Including UK delivery £790
Image H 34 x W 27 cm
Including 2 cm wide natural wood frame H 53 x W 47 cm
Barbara creates art in textiles and ‘paint’ with fabric, making images by hand-stitching small pieces of material together in layers. She hopes to interpret subjects in a fresh way which encourages viewers to take a second look.
She is a self-taught artist, having started experimenting with fabrics after sewing patchwork quilts. Her work includes elements of both art and craft, reflecting her interest in Impressionist paintings and the process of handcrafting. The subjects she stitches include buildings, creatures, plants, still lives and landscape.
As well as regularly exhibiting in galleries and exhibitions in the south of England she has been Artist-in-Residence at two National Trust properties: the 17thC Chastleton House in the Cotswolds and the 18thC Claydon House in Buckinghamshire. In 2014 she was awarded a prize for Excellence in Craft in Oxfordshire and a picture was purchased for Oxfordshire County Museum collections. Her work has also featured in magazines such as ‘Cotswold Life’, ‘Be Creative with Workbox’ and ‘Craft and Design’ as well as an Australian and an American publication. Her article “Try Something Different’, appearing in the ‘Leisure Painter’ in 2016, took readers through her working methods.
She is a Member of Oxfordshire Craft Guild and a Licentiate Member of the Society of Designer Craftsmen.
