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"This book...explains how you can create your own works inspired by the ocean, the rainforest, botany, birds and animals. Discover how a mixture of hand-stitching, machine stitching, embellishment, textile painting and printing can result in a stunning piece of artwork. This colourful reference book contains three original step-by-step projects featuring birds, butterflies and ocean creatures, and is packed with expert advice on preparing your fabric, printing and painting, stitching and embellishing, and adding your finished touches" --
About the author
A ceramist for twenty years, Stephanie Redfern began working in textiles and mixed media in 2003. She now concentrates entirely upon these media, enjoying the immediate sensations of colour, design, line and shape using drawing, print, textiles and text. Her work consists of artists' books, large wall hangings, and smaller pieces of textile work, which may be free hanging, framed or on canvas. It has been extensively exhibited and purchased and resides in many parts of the world.
Stephanie taught children, adults and special needs students for thirty years, and has been artist-in-residence at many schools, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, and several times at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. She has also curated a number of exhibitions, both in textiles and ceramics. She has written a wide variety of magazine articles, and has been lucky to win a number of prizes for her textile work. Stephanie has published four books, Into the Cacao Grove, The Stone Bird, and Shadow and Light, which are facsimiles of her mixed media artists' books, and Thoughts, an illustrated collection of her writing.
Stephanie Redfern is a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, and Art Textiles: Made in Britain.
Summary
An inspiring step-by-step guide to creating contemporary textile artworks themed on nature.
