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Helen Smith

HELEN SMITH

A life-long maker and lover of textiles, Helen's current obsession is weaving small format tapestries and stitching landscape-inspired quilted panels.
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Creating soft tactile items from fabrics and yarns in gorgeous colours and patterns is my obsession and my joy.
 
Over the years I have practiced my crafts and investigated and learnt new techniques from other artists and teachers.  I love to experiment to create new and exciting designs.  
 
I knit, spin, embroider and quilt… but of all the fibre arts I play with, tapestry weaving is my current favourite thing to do.
 
Weaving a tapestry is a slow and meditative process in which I am fully immersed as I gradually see the patterns and colours in the cloth emerge from beneath my hands.
 
The designs for my tapestries usually come from the doodles I make in my notebooks… but the most fun is when I dive into my baskets of woollen yarn, embroidery silks and cottons to find interesting and surprising colour combinations, often mixing 2, 3, 4 or more threads together to get the shades I want… and then I am off, warping my loom and becoming thoroughly immersed in weaving all those wonderful colours and combinations into shapes… quietly watching the piece slowly grow…

These stitched panels for the Land into Art project, are based on a photograph taken from near the top of Hergest Ridge.  Working from subsequent sketches simplifying the lines and shapes, fabrics - including many hand-dyed - were selected, cut freely and stitched together.  Each panel is padded with wool batting and heavily stitched using a domestic sewing machine. ​

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"Fish out of Water" 2017 - 21 x 12 cm
"I weave small tapestries on simple frame looms using cotton for the warp and mixtures of wool, cotton and silk for weaving the weft.  I love to weave my dreams and fantasy images, blending lots of colours and yarns to create shading and depth."
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        • Richard Bavin - Featured Artist
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  • Events & Exhibitions
    • Programme of Events 2023
    • Exhibitions, Present & Past >
      • Art Heritage and Nature Walk
      • Industrial Pastorale
      • Three of a Kind
      • Treasure Town 2021
      • Walkers are Welcome
      • BIG DRAW 2021
      • h.Art 2021
      • Into the Midsummer Meadows 2021
      • Small Wonders 2021
      • Home Grown 2021 >
        • Robert Kilvert
      • Stirrings of Spring 2021
      • Previous years' exhibitions >
        • Box of Delights 2020
        • Land Into Art 2020 >
          • Exhibition Artists
          • The Project
          • The Walker
          • Hergest Croft Gardens
        • SPICE 2020
        • Small is Beautiful 2020
    • Demos/Workshops
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