Tag: textile art
Kea Elisa’s paintings turn travel, memory, and homecoming into layered contemporary works, combining acrylic, spray paint, oil pastel, embroidery, pearls, and natural pigments. From her Atlantic sailing journey to her Stitched Dreamscape series, discover how places and experiences become part of her artistic language.
Annie Richard’s intricate beadwork brings together nature, geometry, mathematics, memory, and a deeply meditative creative process. Since discovering bead embroidery in 2019, she has worked with thousands of individual glass beads to create detailed compositions featuring mandalas, circular forms, and geometric patterns. Inspired in part by her mother’s lifelong connection to beadwork, Annie sees mathematics and art as complementary ways of understanding the world. Her recent use of watercolour beneath the beadwork adds a more fluid and unexpected element to her otherwise precise practice.
Agy Lee creates richly textured embroidered landscapes inspired by moss, coral, weathered surfaces, and the quiet resilience of nature. Working with free-motion embroidery, thread, fabric, and even concrete, she pushes traditional textile techniques into contemporary sculptural forms that blur the boundaries between drawing, embroidery, and installation. Originally trained in science, Agy brings experimentation and close observation into every stage of her practice, translating overlooked natural details into tactile artworks built stitch by stitch. Her work explores fragility, renewal, environmental awareness, and the surprising strength found in the smallest living systems. By…
Elena Sparke creates contemporary textile books and sculptural artworks that bring together antique fabrics, natural fibres, handmade paper, and traditional book forms to explore memory, language, and cultural heritage. Although her formal art practice began only seven years ago, a lifelong connection to literature, textiles, and craft traditions has shaped the thoughtful, multidisciplinary work she creates today. Working with handwoven linen, hemp, botanical dyes, hand stitching, handmade books, and found materials, Elena treats cloth as a language capable of communicating stories beyond words. Nature quietly informs every stage of her process,…
Holly Hutton creates handcrafted botanical artworks using historic photographic processes such as cyanotype and platinum-palladium printing, transforming flowers and plants into richly textured images that celebrate both nature and the beauty of slow-making. Originally trained in fiber arts, she discovered alternative photography while exploring image-making on fabric, a turning point that continues to shape her multidisciplinary practice decades later. Rather than treating photography as a tool for instant capture, Holly embraces chemistry, paper, fabric, and light as active collaborators, allowing each print to evolve through experimentation and carefully balanced unpredictability. Her…
Tine Rosa Ebdrup creates vibrant textile sculptures that merge coral-like forms, feminine symbolism, recycled materials, and intuitive making into deeply personal works about identity, fertility, vulnerability, and women’s power. Trained in fashion and textile design at Design School Kolding in Denmark, she returned to knitting during the pandemic and unexpectedly discovered an entirely new artistic language rooted in softness, bodily experience, and feminist reflection. Using recycled bedsheets, women’s clothing, tablecloths, yarn, and glitter thread, she transforms everyday domestic materials into organic sculptural forms inspired by female anatomy, sea anemones, corals, egg…
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.