Textile Creativity Through Nature - Jeanette Appleton

Textile Creativity Through Nature

Felt, Texture and Stitch
Buch | Hardcover
128 Seiten
2023
Batsford (Verlag)
978-1-84994-773-2 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
Take your textiles to the next level – Jeanette Appleton explains how to draw inspiration and creativity from the natural world to create your own unique and thoughtful work in felt.
New ideas for working with nature to nurture creativity in felted and embroidered textile art.

Immerse yourself in nature and rewild your creative practice with inspiration from textile artist Jeanette Appleton. With a focus on the versatile medium of felt, she takes readers through a series of ideas for working with nature to boost creativity, inspire, and make us more sustainable as artists. The book covers:

• How to capture the nuances of nature through creating exciting felt surfaces – lines of sea, frosted puddles, hedge and grass – and how to translate them into subtleties of texture and stitch.

• Transform recycled cloth by bonding memories, mixed-media and found objects into your work.


• Cutting and repairing techniques: making cuts and slits in the layers of fabric to reveal the secret strata of nature beneath, echoing the planet’s fragility.

• How to make the best use of sketchbooks, maps and mapping to record inspiration from time spent in nature.

• A variety of strategies for overcoming artist’s block, from revisiting past diaries and sketchbooks to interacting differently with your local environment.

Throughout, the author constantly challenges the felt process, discovering a new creative working practice through connecting with the outside world.

Richly illustrated with exciting examples of the author’s beautiful and reflective work, this inspirational and practical guide will appeal to textile and felt artists of all levels.

Jeanette Appleton is an internationally recognized textile artist who works predominantly in fibre and fabric by hand felting or industrial processes. She is a member of the prestigious 62 Group, exhibiting widely in the UK (including solo touring exhibition Sow:Sew). She has participated in international exchanges and group exhibitions in the USA, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Japan, Georgia and Mongolia. Her work has been featured in various magazines and books, with many examples of her work in private and public collections in the UK and overseas. She lives in Devon.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 120 colour illustrations
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 276 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Handarbeit / Textiles
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Kreatives Gestalten
ISBN-10 1-84994-773-2 / 1849947732
ISBN-13 978-1-84994-773-2 / 9781849947732
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