Vivienne Beaumont – Meet the Artist

A little textile inspiration from my YouTube Collection. Today it features the beautiful machine and hand embroidery by Vivienne Beaumont.

Join Vivienne as she shares the art in her ‘Seeds, Flowers and Flowing Hair’ exhibition and explains the processes and stories behind the work. 

https://youtu.be/9WZeg9zjIog

Vivienne Beaumont:   https://www.viviennebeaumont.net/ 

Hand & Machine embroidered artwork by Vivienne Beaumont
Hand & Machine embroidered artwork by Vivienne Beaumont

Ripe with seeds, pomegranates and scenes of harvest, Vivienne’s work is shaped by stories and symbols. She takes inspiration from myths and nature, from female archetypes and the process of transformation.  The work has a soulful quality and often a sense of otherworldliness – her frequent use of gold threads reflects something of the Rumpelstiltskin, the fairy tale.    Her figurative scenes look to the ephemerality and cyclical nature of life, representing both life force and loss. 

Hand & Machine embroidered artwork
Hand & Machine embroidered artwork

“Fields are often aglow in the late summer, through the harvest and its aftermath. I try to capture something of this in my work, as well as something of the folk tale or fairy tale: the jeopardy of the miller’s daughter, the alchemy of weaving straw into gold. That these tales have endured the ages, suggests they hold a deeper meaning for us.  

The Red Riding Hood story, for example, is at heart the tale of a maiden’s rite of passage. The young girl is growing up, the mother is letting her daughter go on her own into the woods. The story alludes to virginity and the spilling of blood. The wolf traditionally plays the role of the sexual predator, but I portray the wolf as the protector, the threat instead from the darkness and the unknown.  

Mothers and daughters, love and rites of passage – the repeated cycles from one generation to the next – these loom large in my textile story.”   

Vivienne Beaumont. 
Exhibition artwork
Exhibition artwork

Filmed at the Knitting & Stitching Show 2022

Ilkley Arts Open Exhibition 2023

Part 1 - detail

I’m pleased to announce that Summer 2022 Part 1 & 2 have been selected for the Ilkley Arts Open Exhibition 2023.

The selection panel included Clare Alton-Fletcher (Chief Executive at West Yorkshire Print Workshop), Jane Kay (Creative Director at The Gallery at Sunny Bank Mills), Martyn Lucas (Artist and Curator at Turnpike Gallery) and Joanne Tinker (Artist and Gallerist at Tinker Gallery).

Ilkley Arts Open Exhibition
Ilkley Arts Open Exhibition

The exhibition on the theme of ‘Take Time’, takes place at Ilkley Manor House, Castle Yard, Ilkley, West Yorkshire LS29 9DT,  and is open Sat 16th Sept – Sun 15th Oct (open to the public on weekends)

Selected artists for the exhibition
Selected artists for the exhibition

Over 400 artworks were submitted by 200 artists. 

Summer 22 Part 1 - part of Ilkley Arts Open Exhibition 2023
Summer 22 Part 1 – part of Ilkley Arts Open Exhibition 2023

Each artwork is 21 x 21 cm. Hand embroidered, hand stitched. Vintage Sylko thread, cotton cloth. 

Summer 22 Part 2
Summer 22 Part 2

Thank you to Ilkley Arts for selecting my art in the exhibition.

Linen Works Exhibition

A little textile inspiration from my YouTube Collection. Today it features stunning Modern Quilts from the Linen Works Exhibition by Sarah Hibbert.

Sarah combines hand stitching with linen textural fabric to create her modern artworks. Sarah’s gallery includes a selection of her recent work featured in her book From Collage to Quilt

Join author and modern quilter Sarah Hibbert  as she guides you through the colourful modern quilts in her Exhibition.  

Sarah Hibbert: https://www.sarahhibbertquilts.com/ 

Quilt from the Exhibition
Quilt from the Exhibition
Quilt from the Linen Works Exhibition
Quilt from the Linen Works Exhibition

Filmed at the Festival of Quilts 2022.

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