Tag: textile art
Daiana Bruj creates layered abstract paintings using fabric, collage, and upcycled materials that carry traces of lived experience. Often incorporating personal elements like worn textiles, her work builds surfaces that feel both intimate and deeply human. Colour leads her process, forming an emotional field before shapes and structure emerge, while each material adds its own history to the composition. Rather than depicting faces directly, her paintings explore presence through absence, capturing the warmth, memory, and quiet imprint people leave behind. Over time, her practice has shifted toward restraint, using fewer elements…
Jennifer Morgan transforms soft materials into strikingly lifelike portraits, using wool, beads, and hand-blended fibers to build depth and emotion without paint. Her process is slow and intentional, allowing texture to carry the story through layered surfaces that feel both delicate and powerful. Each piece captures subtle expressions and quiet emotional weight, inviting viewers to look closer and connect more deeply. By blurring the line between textile and fine art, her work challenges how portraiture is traditionally understood, proving that even the softest mediums can hold presence, intensity, and lasting impact.
For decades, Nerea Azanza couldn’t create. Not because she stopped loving art, but because a medical mistake silenced the part of her that made it possible. When her creativity finally returned, she didn’t paint loudly. She painted tiny human faces fragile, almost dissolving into vast spaces of line and structure. Because to her, we are dust in a universe we barely respect. And humility, after everything, felt necessary.
Olga Hiiva paints the faces that were never allowed to remain. Working on tablecloths, nightgowns, and worn domestic fabrics, she restores presence to lives erased by violence and silence. Her portraits are not memorials of suffering, they are acts of return, carrying grief, love, and survival across generations, and insisting that what was meant to vanish is still here.
We are thrilled to announce that The Places We Call Home is now live on the Women in Arts Network! This international virtual exhibition brings together women-identifying and non-binary artists from around the world to explore the many meanings of home. Through painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, and digital art, each artist shares deeply personal stories of belonging, memory, and connection, inviting viewers to reflect on their own sense of home, wherever it may be.
Before announcing the selected artists, we want to take a moment to express our deepest gratitude to everyone who submitted their work for The Places We Call Home. Each submission carried with it a story, a memory, and a feeling that reminded us just how beautifully diverse the idea of “home” can be. You invited us into your worlds into rooms filled with love, nostalgia, and quiet strength. Your art made us pause, reflect, and see that home is not just a place, but a heartbeat, a belonging that travels with…