Painting with embroidery mixed media

Yes. I'm the kind of art geek that takes a photo of the show statement because...well...the statement says it much better than I could paraphrase or summarize. I'll let you in on another little secret - what took to me this exhibit was the prospect of seeing more of Dorothy Caldwell's work. She is the one, after all, who has turned mending into art in our time. The Japanese have been doing it for centuries with their exquisite boro, yet boro was done for functional purposes, not artistic…

Yoon Ji Seon's embroidered portraits blend fiber and photography. Much of work consists of self-portraits, with varying degrees of emotions, abstraction, and detail. Her "Rag Face" series goes back to 2006, when she started experimenting with these mixed-media pieces.

gallery of freehand machine embroidered pictures by UK textile artist Alison Holt using silk painting and freehand machine embroidery

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Be Inspired by the incredible mixed media embroidery art of contemporary fibre artist Ana Teresa Barboza on The Fiber Studio.

A tour through a series of very moving embroidered portraits known as The Dementia Darnings created by Jenni Dutton “started in 2011 whilst I was a carer for...

Combining a variety of mediums within a work is definitely an artistic trend of late, but none is quite as striking as Singapore-based Izziyana Suhaimi‘s embroidered illustrations and paintings. Part whimsical, part fine-art, each piece conveys a very different set of emotions, showing off her incredible multi-disciplinary skills. She documents her different projects and the...