September 2021 - Arnolds Attic

30th September 20211st October 2021

Sabi Westoby – Meet the Artist

A little textile inspiration from my YouTube ‘Meet the Artist’ Collection. Today it features art quilts of textile artist, Sabi Westoby.

Sabi designs her own fabrics with dye & print. Her expressive and experimental approach to textiles can be seen in her ‘Uprooted’ exhibition – layers of print, paint and hand stitching.

The artworks are based on the ‘United for Intercultural Action List’, which appeared in The Guardian newspaper on 20 June 2018, World Refugee Day, recording 34,361 known refugee deaths over a 25 year period between 1993 and 2018. The works reflect her desire to acknowledge and give form and shape to the unknown men, women and children who died fleeing climate change, civil war and persecution, seeking safer lives in Europe.
Filmed at the The Festival of Quilts 2021.

In this video Sabi shares her latest work and explains the ideas and design concepts behind the collection.

Catch up with Sabi and her stunning Textile Gallery at The Festival of Quilts 2021.

Images courtesy: http://www.sabiwestoby.com

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Artwork by Sabi Westoby - Names , numbers of deaths and cause of death - The List - priinted onto cotton cloth and embroidered - overprinted with images of 'reugees' walking in crowds — Page from The List printed onto cotton cloth

Artwork by Sabi Westoby - Names , numbers of deaths and cause of death - The List - priinted onto cotton cloth and embroidered — Artwork by Sabi Westoby

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26th September 202126th September 2021

Embroidering the Everyday

The secrets out! I’m so happy to share my big news with you! “Take Time to Smell the Roses” has been selected to appear in Embroidering the Everyday: Found, Stitch and Paint Book.

Embroidering the Everyday Book - shows a layered cloth backgroud in red and a machine embroidered kettle — Embroidering the Everyday Book

In March 2020 at the the start of the first UK Lockdown, I received a message from by Cas Holmes. She was in the planning stage for a new book and wondered if I’d be willing to have a piece of my art published in it. The chapter she had in mind was about words and memories and how they are captured in cloth. I was delighted to be asked and I’m beyond words to see my work in print.

Take Time to Smell the Roses appears in the book

The book looks amazing. I’ve copies of each of Cas’s previous books and I’ll be be adding this one to the stash too.

Books by Cas Holmes: Stitch Stories – Personal places, spaces and traces in textile art; Textile Landscape: Painting with Cloth in Mixed Media; The Found Object in Textile Art: Recycling and re-purposing natural, printed and vintage objects; Connected Cloth: Creating Collaborative Textile Projects.

You can secure your own copy by ordering it here.

22nd September 202130th September 2021

Sheila Frampton Cooper – Meet the Artist

A little textile inspiration from my YouTube ‘Meet the Artist’ Collection. Today it features bold, free-form quilts of textile artist, Sheila Frampton Cooper.

Sheila’s colourful improv artworks have won awards at major quilt shows, including: IQA World of Beauty in Houston, AQS Show in Paducah and Road to California.

In this video Sheila shares her artworks and explains her applique and improv techniques.

Catch up with Sheila and her stunning Textile Gallery at The Festival of Quilts 2021.

Images courtesy: https://www.zoombaby.com/