Workshop – Vanishing Worlds with Angie Hughes

“I’m always inspired by gardens, hedgerows, trees and leaves. This project comes from my imagination – half remembered images of vetch tendrils, ivy creeping up a rough tree trunk, the black buds of an alder in my garden and a dark ferny corner under a quince tree.

“You will be making components using soluble film, transfer printing, foiling, zapping, machine embroidery…. then collaging them all together at the end.”

There will be a kit available for this workshop from Angie: £5.

About Angie

Angie is a textile artist and tutor, who lives and works in Ledbury, Herefordshire. She has been interested in textiles since she left school although only discovered creative embroidery in 1994 when she began studying City & Guilds at Malvern Hills College. While a student she won the prestigious Charles Henry Foyle Trust Award for Stitched Textiles with her piece ‘Unfolding Word’ and had ‘Shroud’ accepted for Art of the Stitch. She carried on her studies at Gloscat with Liz Harding after which she discovered a talent for teaching.

Angie has recently enjoyed developing work that focuses on gardens that were once tamed but struggle and often succeed in becoming wild. She enjoys the juxtaposition of randomly ‘placed’ plants alongside the order the gardener tries to contain. Imagining these gardens in shadowy moonlit illumination, her colours have become almost monochromatic, silvers and blacks and those hard to name colours when light has faded. From drawings and photography Angie has developed her visual ideas through embroidery inventing simplified botanical forms. This recent work has seen her explore discharged and painted velvets, use heat transferred foils and layered organza which becomes intensely machine embroidered.

Angie’s work has featured in many publications, including Embroidery, Stitch, Cloth Paper Scissors, Quilting Arts, Hot Textiles by Kim Thitichai and The Encyclopedia of Embroidery by Val Holmes.

During 2021 Angie created a series of Zoom workshops, more information is available on her website www.angiehughes.com