This afternoon we had Corinne Young visit us (click on the link for her website) to give us a talk about her textile journey and what fascinating journey it has been. There are lots of interesting articles on her website from various magazines and some fabulous pictures, but here's a quick summary of our afternoon.
Corinne started with studies at the RHS Lindley library and the Economic Botany collection at Kew producing work based on seed heads and botanical specimens using flax fibre to make paper for a background.
Following an exhibition at the Society of Designer Craftsmen she was approached by one of the producers of the Lord of the Rings theatre production and was commissioned to make sixteen panels. These were first exhibited in Toronto and then moved to the Royal Courts of Justice in London.Photo from Corinne's website
Photo from Corinne's website
Corinne now works on 3D pieces - machine embroidered flat, cut out and stiffened to turn onto amazingly realistic flowers and plants.
Photo from Corinne's website
Corinne has exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show numerous times and I'm sure people must think her plants are real!
We had a lovely afternoon looking at Corinne's work and listening to her journey in stitch.
I snapped some photos of the work she brought but I'm afraid they don't do it justice.
We had a stitch morning before Corinne's talk and as usual there was a lot of lovely varied work by our members. We were particularly taken with Clare's pasty - a needle case in fact, which was a really clever idea.
Not a Cornish pasty
Cute!
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