Zoom talk: From There to Here – Early Years, with Joanna O’Neill

Discovering, venturing, focusing…How I discovered the wonderful world of contemporary textiles – the good, the bad and the embarrassing.

Originally from Berkshire, I studied embroidery under Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn, graduating in 1999 with the Diploma in Stitched Textiles.  My stitching career since then has included exhibitions, commissions, talks and workshops. I am an accredited quilt judge, judging frequently at the Festival of Quilts, and I contribute to several monthly textile magazines – in particular, since I moved to Northumberland in 2012 I seem to have become ‘the stringer in the north’ for British Patchwork & Quilting Magazine.

http://www.joannaoneilltextiles.co.uk

n.b. Joanna will also be with us for a workshop in February.