Summer School 2008
Threads of Meaning
Seeing the Light with Siân Martin
'Seeing the Light' can be interpreted in different ways; a revelation in thinking and the effects of light. Students will experiment with a range of translucent and transparent materials - tissues, chiffons, acetates, organzas, cling film and more - to explore different ways of creating suspended textile surfaces by layering, fusing, trapping and linking methods. A series of experimental samples will culminate in a still-life study, looking at light through glass, coloured inks and balloons leading to lots of exciting ideas for further work.
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Siân Martin is a nationally recognised tutor and textile practitioner: an exhibiting member of the 62 Group of Textile Artists and Fibre.Art.Wales as well as the Practical Study Group. She is a visiting lecturer on the textile degree courses at Somerset College of Arts and Technology and teaches City and Guilds Embroidery at Urchfont Manor. Siân is director and tutor of 'Distant Stitch', her embroidery by correspondence course. She has developed many design and textile workshops to extend creative thinking through the medium of fabric and stitch. Siân uses the concepts of transparency and layering within her own textile art pieces which can be seen on her website www.distantstitch.co.uk.