Tag: textile artist

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.

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,…

Jillian Cheong creates vibrant paintings and textile collages inspired by Singapore’s extraordinary biodiversity, transforming everyday encounters with birds, insects, tropical plants, and urban nature into joyful celebrations of colour and discovery. A former biology teacher, she combines scientific observation with expressive artistic storytelling, encouraging viewers to slow down and notice the remarkable wildlife often hidden within familiar surroundings. Her richly layered compositions are filled with intricate botanical details, luminous birds, and playful patterns that reward close looking and invite a deeper connection with the natural world. More recently, Jillian has incorporated…