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 ten 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 have exhibited my work with the One Step On Group at various venues, most recently at Skelmersdale Library and Chapel Gallery,
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Right: A Point in Time
Left: A Time and Place
Details of both:
Size :
41 x 43cm (inc frame)
Materials/techniques:
Both these pictures are made from 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.
Above: Partyrags
Size: 60cm wide x 90cm high
Materials: perspex, wire, metallic organza, thread.
Source: Based on the subject "Handbags and Gladrags"
Title: Cloud Nine
Size: 44 x 55cms including frame
Materials/Technique: Digitally printed fabric, hand embroidered and embellished
Source: Based on the subject "Handbags and Gladrags" and photos of skies.
Title: Three Sisters
Size: 48 x 38cms, including frame (not shown)
Materials/technique: Hand made felt, free machine embroidery
Source: Dorset landscape