art space

A place for established artists and graduates of textile arts courses to showcase their work. Please if you would like information about being featured in art space.

	Kimberley Adams Kimberley Adams is a graduate of University of Wales Institute Cardiff. "Currently my work is engaged in the exploration of 'the gaze' and the image of the 'self'..."
	Melanie Ashton-Hosseini Melanie Ashton-Hosseini is a feltmaker and graduate of Manchester Metropolitan University. "I feel a connection to felt making, to the sensuousness and physicality of this ancient craft. To the endless possibility within the seemingly humble fibre...."
	Lesley Bricknell Lesley Bricknell is a professional artist who lives in the South West of England. "I am attracted to fragile and barely held together surfaces and structures. In the idea that a piece of work may only exist for a short time, is recorded and then destroyed..."
	Clare Burchell Clare Burchell is a graduate of the University College of the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey. "The dramatic change of the seasons in Cornwall plays an important role in my work, particularly with my use of colour and textures..."
	Peggy Dembicer Peggy Dembicer is a contemporary American artist. "I continue to explore the possibilities in mixing media. My recent pieces have incorporated felting techniques, gel medium, polymers, beads, metal, wire and stones in combination..."
	Becky Howson Becky Howson is a textile artist and designer specialising in printed and embroidered textiles, based in Birmingham, UK. "I develop imagery by celebrating everyday objects that may be taken for granted such as an old pair of shoes or a well-worn handbag..."
	Rachel Hutchinson Rachel Hutchinson is a textile artist from County Antrim based at Blick Shared Studios in Belfast. "Using old objects and fabrics, I imagine that a story is contained within every warp and weft of the material..."
	Rachael Jordan Rachael Jordan has a degree in Illustration from the University of Portsmouth, and currently lives in Southsea. "The main themes within my work are science based, with interests also in human nature and phenomena, biology, the unconscious mind, and popular culture...."
	Vikki Lafford Vikki Lafford is a freelance textile designer and graduate of Manchester Metropolitan University and Chelsea College of Art and Design. "I am inspired by the fairy tales, folklore, romanticism and nature I appreciated as a child. I create feminine, elegantly detailed, hand crafted clothing and accessories in luxury fabrics..."
	Rebecca Mason Rebecca Mason is a textile/mixed media artist living and working in Cornwall. "I don't ever want people to think that art is out of their reach. Fantastic art should be available to everyone..."
	Samantha Milner-Eradhun Samantha Milner-Eradhun is studying Contemporary Textile Practices at the Norwich School of Art and Design. "I am curious and inspired by the mysteries of the mind of animals and children... I have explored this in the technique of appliqué and reverse appliqué, layers upon layers..."
	Joanna Neil Joanna Neil graduated from Wimbledon School of Art in 1997 with a fine art degree in painting and has recently been drawn to textiles, particularly feltmaking. "For me felt is the ideal medium to explore my ideas because of its 'range'. It can be sculptural, painterly, textural or minimal..."
	Deepa Panchamia Deepa Panchamia is a graduate of Nottingham Trent University. "Radiating a natural organic quality, my collection exhibits a strong linear wave motion that is detailed yet controlled; energetic yet coherent..."
	Fatima Saeed Fatima Saeed is a graduate of National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan. "Whether it is the five layers of the forest or the fungi or the moss, my basic inspiration is the forest textures, the entire haphazard, clustered, three-dimensional, misty feel of the rainforest..."
	Suparna Sengupta Suparna Sengupta is a designer and artist from India. "My textile artworks are mainly inspired from the vividness of nature's wonderful creations of colours, shades, contrasts and its blends, textures and diffusions..."
	Sarah Symes Sarah Symes is a full-time contemporary abstract textile artist. "I am fascinated by the elemental beauty of California's west coast, and find inspiration in the ever-changing beach landscape..."
	Wendy Ward Wendy Ward is a practising designer-maker working with recycled textiles under the name ReMake. "Old textiles fascinate me, not just beautiful antique textiles, but everyday discarded clothing and textiles with imperfections..."