textile artist

Sue Trevor has spent the last 36 years making a living as a textile artist, and is particularly loved for her spectacular stitched sculptures of ordinary domestic objects like the teapot, telephone and Kenwood Chef. Find out more in our interview.

Meet Coralie Green, a self-taught quilt maker who creates bright, modern quilts, based around colour play. She works from an old cotton mill in the heart of Manchester, where she can spend weeks pondering over the design, simplifying it over and over again until the perfect contemporary quilt emerges.

Meet Jane V Shorten, a contemporary textile artist who creates beautiful stitched flights of fancy, where vintage line drawings sit in slightly surreal, offbeat landscapes, surrounded by colourful embroidered and appliquéd flora and fauna.

Textile artist Amanda Barnes tells us how her hand-crafted menagerie of mice and other small creatures first began, and how one of her mice got a (miniature) starring role in US TV show, Criminal Minds.

Textile artist Teresa Bettelley from Shirley Rainbow has had a long love affair with thread and fabric, encouraged by the creative women in her family. She tells us about her beautiful hand-stitched embroidery art, her creative inheritance, her attic studio and how she fits making around her young family…