Caroline Hyde-Brown is a textile artist with a long-established career.

Inspired by botanical research, she combines foraged plant material with a variety of textile art techniques to create fascinating weaves and vessels with fragile beauty. Combined with her purposeful art practice experience, Caroline shares plenty of wisdom on Stitchery Stories textile art podcast.

With so many inspiring aspects to Caroline's textile art career, in this episode of Stitchery Stories we chose to focus on some unique plant-based research projects that Caroline has been involved with over the last couple of years. Firstly, on a project focused on the Grass Pea plant. And secondly on a project based around extracting natural dyes from food waste. These were truly fascinating and highlight the innovative use of plant-based materials within Caroline's textile art.

Susan Weeks chats with Caroline Hyde-Brown about:

• Overwintering in her practice, her garden and her art.
• Combining foraged plant materials with textile art techniques
• Purposeful development of an art practice
• The importance of outreach and connections
• Her love of nature and plants and research
• Making paper with grass pea fibres
• Extracting natural dyes from food waste from UK & Malaysia
• Contrasting writing styles for academic writing & art book
• Writing her first book 'Forage & Stitch'
• A hard lesson in understanding a design brief & clear communication
• And plenty more besides!

For this episode... View Links, information & Examples of Caroline's work at https://stitcherystories.com/carolinehydebrown

Visit: https://www.theartofembroidery.co.uk/

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Laura Edgar: Atmospheric Coastal Scenes in Textile Art

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Hannah Thompson has always loved crafting, quilting & textile art.

 In 2017, at a crossroads in her life, dealing with emotional & family upset, she left her corporate career and set up Stitching Kitchen. On Stitchery Stories textile art podcast, Hannah shares her story and we dive into what she describes as her transformational business year in 2023!

Susan Weeks chats with Hannah Thompson about:

• Her love for textile art, quilting, crafting and creativity
• Family life and a career pushing textile creativity to the background
• Turning to textile art to deal with a challenging time
• Taking the leap into setting up Stitching Kitchen
• How her business has evolved
• Discovering a love of teaching and facilitating others to enjoy textile art
• Starting to host guest tutors
• Getting help within her business
• Pushing out of her comfort zone with an inspiring community arts project with the National Paralympic Heritage Trust
• and lots more too! 

For this episode... View Links, information & Examples of Hannah's work at https://stitcherystories.com/hannahthompson

 Visit: https://stitchingkitchen.co.uk/

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Look: https://www.instagram.com/stitchingkitchen/

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Other Episodes featuring artists Hannah has booked for 2024:

Anne Kelly: Textile Art From Re-used Textile Treasures

https://stitcherystories.com/annekelly/

Jayne Emerson Returns: Impatient Textile Rebel

https://stitcherystories.com/jayneemerson2/

Textile artist Holly Jackson shares her recent journey in developing her art career.

Developing her 'sneaky' stumpwork embroidery using modern materials and mixed media, there are plenty of exciting 'firsts' to celebrate with Holly!

We join Holly at the start of her first art exhibition. She shares her preparation and hopes from the show. We chat about her very interesting inspirations for her emerging body of work, and how she is developing her own 'take' on stumpwork, scaling it up, and using modern materials and mixed media to produce larger pieces, faster, yet still using hand embroidery.

Susan Weeks chats with Holly about:

• 'There's always one more thing!'
• How she got started on her new artist career
• The importance of getting in front of 'new eyes'
• Her preparations for her first 'booth show'
• The fascinating stories of the 'hidden women' behind historical Mardi Gras float designs
• The impacts of flooding & climate change on her region
• Developing 'sneaky stumpwork' techniques
• Creating her own unique textile art style and 'voice'
• Creating a body of work, using series and collections
• What's next after the show?

For this episode...

View Show Notes, Links & Examples of Holly's work at https://stitcherystories.com/hollyjackson

Visit: https://flossinginthemoonlight.com/

Look: https://www.instagram.com/flossinginthemoonlight/

Other places & people we mentioned: 

Chesapeake bay, USA

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay

Tulane University Carnival Collection https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:p15140coll40

Jenny Adin-Christie

https://jennyadin-christieembroidery.com/

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