Jenni CadmanJenni Cadman is a textile artist and tutor living in West Dorset. Originally graduating with a degree in Printed Textile Design in 1980, she took up stitching professionally 12 years later. In 2000 and 2001 she received Crafts Awards from the Arts Council South West to develop her landscaped inspired work. She has been described as a textile artist with the sensibilities of a painter, a complex artist who explores colour, form and movement through the medium of fabrics and stitch. Painting, drawing and collage form a crucial process in the design and development of her stitched panels and hangings. Her new work has concentrated on her daily walk from home, through a deer park, to her studio. For this collection she has moved into a new direction with stitch being the predominant feature, a laborious procedure of using the small to create the large. Drawing with the needle, she ‘colours in’ areas of cloth using the rhythmical action of a sewing machine applying broad painterly sweeps of subtle colours in crochet, rayon and cotton threads. Besides producing these intensively stitched hangings she continues to make wall panels that combine the painting and distressing of embroidered silks, a unique process which has taken many years to perfect. She has 11 years teaching experience in the form of residencies and workshops working with schools, colleges and embroidery guilds throughout the South East and West. Jenni is a member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen, at Bovey Tracey, Devon. Selected Group Exhibitions (2003-2008) Trig Point, The Study Gallery of Modern Art, Poole The Terrace Café, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey Trowbridge Gallery, New York and London, Series of painted panels. |
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