Book Review # 4

Journey to Inspired Art Quilting by Jean Wells is another book that was added to my library. This book, like her previous ones, has beautiful coloured photos and is an easy read. Jean provides the reader with more design guidelines through the exploration of line and colour as well as new exercises to try. It is strongly encouraged that we take our cameras everywhere!

My camera goes everywhere as you never know what will spark an idea!



Check out some of these Quilt Artists:

Deb Plestid
Melody Johnson
Carol Bryer Fallert
Frieda Anderson
Bonnie McCaffery
Coreen Zerr
Barbara Olson
Laurie Swim
Renske Helmuth
Sandra Meech

Enjoy!

Textile Artists from the UK

Lately I have been looking at the work of textile artists from all over the world. I sometimes loose track of time when doing this. However, it is time well spent especially if it triggers an idea. It's quite inspiring to see how these artists use colour, line, shape, value and texture to create a piece of textile art. My focus this time, is artists from the UK or who have ties to this country. Take a look!

• Barbara Weeks, textile artist & tutor
• Sandra Meech, art quilts & textiles (I've taken several work shops with Sandra)
• Gina Ferrari, check out the gallery
• Lynda Crosthwaite, 
• Mary-Clare Buckle, abstract art
• Lindsay Taylor
• One Step On, a West Lancashire group of textile artists
• Laura Stevens, hand stitched artwork
• Rachel Jennings, textiles & printmaking
• Linda Kemshall
• Gillian Travis
• Helen Howes