2023/24 Programme

Tuesday 14th January 2025

Venue: Zoom 7.30-9.30pm

Cas Holmes - Artist and Author

Cas Holmes is an artist and writer of Romani descent and is interested in the liminal, ‘in between’ spaces connecting land, people and place. Trained in fine art, her work combines mixed media with found materials and stitch and is best described as ‘painting with cloth’.

The history and familiarity of worn cotton, linen and paper mark the passing of time informing the narratives contained within the work.

Tuesday 12th November 2024

Venue: Zoom 7.30pm-9.30pm

Corrine Young - Botanical Textile Art

Corinne Young is an award-winning textile artist based in North Lancashire, UK. She creates three-dimensional embroidered heirloom artwork. Her stitched plant sculptures are inspired by botanical specimens, plant meanings, and historical artefacts.

Corinne has featured in national and international publications, including Country Living magazine. She has exhibited widely in galleries throughout the UK, and takes part in Open Studios, and other arts events. She has also undertaken several large commissions and residencies. Her work is in private collections all over the world/

Tuesday 12th September 2023

Venue: Cox Green Community Centre 7.30pm - 9.30pm

Samira Mian - Drawing Islamic Geometric Patterns.

In this two hour onsite workshop you will be creating some historical patterns using a compass and straightedge. The same tools that have been used by countless geometers and artisans for centuries across Islamic lands. You will draw and colour an eightfold pattern and see how they relate to a wider system of shapes and patterns all drawn from the same underlying grid of lines and circles.

Places are limited for this workshop - please contact the Group chairman to check availability.

To view more of Samira's work visit:

Tuesday 12th October 2023

Venue: Cox Green Community Centre 7.30pm - 9.30pm

AGM

Susan Elizabeth Hattam - Life after the BBC

Susan will be talking about her career as an international award winning Graphic Designer at the BBC and her textile journey inspired by her secondary school Art teacher the late Mrs Diane Brockway - a celebrated Welsh quilter.

Tuesday 14th November 2023

Venue: ONLINE ZOOM meeting 7.30pm - 9.30pm

Kim Edith - The Art of Stitchbooking

Kim is a textile artist based in Portsmouth. Her Stitchbooking fuses elements of scrapbooking and textile arts to create beautiful handmade memory books and projects. It is based on the use of transfer paper which lets anyone transfer photographs to fabric easily with high-quality results - letting you sew them into many interesting projects.

To view more of her work visit: www.stitchbookstudio.com

Tuesday 12th December 2023

Venue: Cox Green Community Centre 7.30pm - 9.30pm

Members SHOW & TELL

Christmas TAG CHALLENGE competition.

Tuesday 9th January 2024

Venue: ONLINE ZOOM meeting 7.30pm - 9.30pm

Suzette Smart - The natural world outside my door.

Suzette is a Textile Artist and Tutor living in rural North Shropshire. "I'm not a light stitcher and I never manage to tell all in the first layer but prefer to build a story through collage, thread and a little mixed media."

To view more of Suzette's work visit: www.suzettesmart.com

Tuesday 13th February 2024

Venue: ONLINE ZOOM workshop 7.30pm - 9.30pm

Nikki Parmenter - online workshop

Nikki is a Cheshire based artist who specialises in mixed media, textile based pieces. She takes her inspiration from a variety of sources and is particularly interested in the way in which ancient societies created a series of visual symbols to represent the things which were important to them. She investigates myths and legends drawing parallels between societies, showing that although many people have different beliefs we are all united by visual iconography.

Materials for this workshop will be posted to participants prior to this event.

To view more of Nikki's work visit: www.nikkiparmenterartworks.com

Tuesday 12th March 2024

Venue: Zoom

Julie French - online speaker

Julie uses the sewing machine as a tool for continuous line drawing, her work explores
movement and texture with often unpredictable outcomes, which have been likened to
ink illustration.

To view more of Julie's work visit: www.juliefrench.artweb.com

Tuesday 9th April 2024

Venue: Cox Green Community Centre 7.30pm - 9.30pm

Hilary Jenkins - BORO workshop

A demonstration and Boro workshop with Hilary - time to learn, chat and stitch!

Tuesday 14th May 2024

Venue: Cox Green Community Centre 7.00pm - 9.00pm

Barry Webb - inspiration from nature

Winner of the Royal Photographic Society Photographer of the Year competition be prepared to be blown away by the amazing close up slime mould images Barry captures.

To view more of Barry's work visit: www.barrywebbimages.co.uk