I am a illustrative fibre artist specialised in crochet

Gemma Textiles create simple, sculptural garments individually hand made using reclaimed and naturally dyed textiles.

Julie uses traditional and contemporary techniques to make functional and sculptural forms. Willow is her main materials but other found materials like rushes, grasses, seaweed or wire and rope are often used too. She teaches regular classes. See website for details

Amy Burt – hand embroidery artist & tutor. Specialising in modern, traditional and fashion embroidery. I mainly teach for the Royal School of Needlework’s Degree 2 days a week in term time and I also teach private group lessons and one-on-one. Before moving here in January I worked for over 6 years in the London fashion industry doing embroidery for Alexander McQueen and Ralph & Russo.

After many years of making sumptuously crafted felt textiles to wear, my large-scale works draw on the aesthetic and symbolic potential of the laborious process of felting. The hand-felted re-interpretations of photographic images often explore the politics of the representation and tensions and contradictions of a Black British or Black European identity.