Textile Landscapes demonstrates how to develop your approach to
textile art with a focus on using found objects and paint and stitch on
cloth and paper.
Cas explains how to exploit the contrast between the hands-on textural
quality of working with fabrics and threads and the spontaneity and
movement of brush marks to lend a painterly quality to your work.
She begins with the basics - keeping a sketchbook to generate ideas,
painting and stitching on cloth and on paper and working digitally;
Inspiring Landscapes looks at natural and urban space, the changing
seasons and great landscapes as well as intimate spaces and travel
diaries; Painting and Marking with Cloth explains the practical aspects
of painting and dyeing cloth and how to make connections between paint,
print, dye, stencil and stitch; Stitch-scapes looks at the different
forms of landscape, experimenting with photographs and prints and how to
translate those images using ink, stitch, abstract and collage
techniques and then at how to transform the image using digital
techniques; On Closer Inspection covers using elements and details from
landscape and the environment as found objects and for research; finally
People and Place explores the relationship we have with the outdoors and
the built environment, as well as personal interpretations of place.
The book includes artworks by the author that explore the UK, USA,
Europe and Australia, as well as works by other internationally renowned
textile artists. A creative guide ideal for textile artists of all
levels - students, teachers and practising artists and makers - to make
unique and beautiful work inspired by the world around us.
