Jenny Blackburn Textile Artist
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Trained
as a secondary school teacher, Jenny
has spent her working life teaching
textiles in Primary and Secondary schools
and in Adult Education. She was tutor
for the City & Guilds Creative Studies
Embroidery courses at Strode College,
Street and Exeter College for 18 and
20 years respectively.
She was a contributing author of 'Needlework
School' and 'Embroidery Studio' and
has written articles on embroidery for
various magazines.
Jenny has worked with the Embroiderers'
Guild on the Embroidery Development
Scheme, for which she is a Reviewer.
Her work has been exhibited widely in
this country and abroad.
Now retired from full-time teaching
she continues to teach classes and courses
throughout the country.
As a member of the Practical Study Group, South West Textile Group and the exhibiting group Heptad, I have always combined my personal work with my teaching. I am particularly interested in pattern and colour and draw my inspiration from many sources.
My current work is based on dress thus combining my early training with my love of stitched textiles. I am interested in the detail of decoration on, and the construction of, historical costume. Most of my work is machine embroidery worked on an elderly Irish machine, though hand stitchery also affords great pleasure.
After a lifetime of teaching others how to do it, I am now able to concentrate on my own work and to develop my ideas.
Jenny Blackburn


