Julia trained in Applied Design at Edinburgh College of Art and has been teaching Textiles and exhibiting for over 25 years. Now based in Manchester, England her textural mixed media textiles pieces suggest fragments of landscape without being figurative. Work is inspired by weathered, organic, irregular forms and the repetition of simple shapes, like clusters of barnacles, knotted tree roots and growth patterns of lichen.

Using examples of work by Julia and a selection of their own inspirational photographs as a starting point, students will experiment with a diverse range of fabric manipulation techniques. These will include wrapping and binding, entrapment and hand couching to create colourful, textural, mixed media pieces inspired by close-up details seen in landscapes and coastal areas. We will work with mixed natural fabrics to create structural fabric forms which can then be combined and hand stitched onto backing fabrics to begin a more resolved composition or remain as a series of separate samples.

No previous experience is needed.

Website- http://www.juliawright.co.uk

Facebook- Julia Wright Jewellery & Textiles

Instagram- @julia_._wright

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