2-day Summer School: Tea bag paper & Gelli plate printing, Rachael Singleton

Rachael says, “I am a textile and mixed media artist living in West Yorkshire, combining paper, fabrics, fibres and other materials to create one of a kind artworks or small series. I am conceptually led, chasing ideas and intentions, employing a wide range of materials. The natural world is a dominant source of inspiration, particularly the smaller things around me, which I delight in observing closely.  I look up and around for a sense of wellbeing but down and in to feed my artistic curiosity.  I tend to build complex, layered surfaces and am deeply satisfied by synthesis and containment which you will find present in much of my work.

“I have regularly displayed work through membership of textile groups and continue to demonstrate and lead workshops locally and nationally. I also sell from time to time through a local gallery. I am a member of Huddersfield Art Society and am currently exploring abstraction a little more, developing gestural mark-making both in textile art and painting where the one influences the other.

“As well as having a few published articles, I have written a book about how to think through the different stages of creativity using examples from my own work, and a smaller book on how to use teabag paper. You can find them on the ‘contact’ tab on my website.”

https://rachaelsingleton.com/