Anne Stark
My interest in
needlework began with dressmaking, and in the past I ran a business
designing, making and selling children's clothes, featuring applique work. Over the last twelve
years I have concentrated on creative embroidery, attending evening classes and classes run by the WEA. In 2005 I completed the
City and Guilds Part I in Design and Creative Embroidery and two years later completed the Diploma. I enjoy using
mixed media, experimenting with textiles and other materials. I enjoy the challenge and focus that come from exhibiting my work with One Step On.
Left:
Title: Calico Tree
Size: 15 x 62cm
Materials/Techniques: Calico squares with machine covered cords for the tree, lace branches, silk leaves and hand stitching.
Source: The brief - to use connecting calico squares, Autumn.
Title: Velvet Box
Size: 11w x 7.5d x 9h cm.
Technique/materials:
Hand-made box: purchased patterned velvet with hand-made tassel.
Size: 54 x 43cm
Technique/materials: Handmade felt with hand stitching
Source: Design based on the theme of "Connecting"
Right:
Title: Creation 2
Size: 25 x 25cm
Technique/materials:
Digitally printed cotton and organza, hand stitching.
Source: Based on the first verse of a poem on an old sampler
Size :41 x 43cm (inc frame), Materials/techniques: recycled ties bonded to calico, acrylic paint, threads
Source: based on my parents house and garden
Below: Beyond the Blue
Size: 50 x 20cm
Materials/technique: digitally printed cotton and organza with machine embroidery, on a box canvas and perspex
Source: Sky
Below: Chinese Butterfly
Size: 54 x 45cm
Materials/technique:Background; stencilled silk, Butterfly: felt, metallic organza, all with machine embroidery
Source: Ancient Chinese embroidery
Size: 90cm wide x 60cm high
Materials: rigilene, silk habotai, dyes, poly-cotton thread,
supported on bamboo frame
Source: Ripples left on the sand by the outgoing tide.
Size: 60cm wide x 90cm high
Materials: perspex, wire, metallic organza, thread.
Source: Based on the subject "Handbags and Gladrags"