Karen Young

Textile Artist

City and Guilds of London Institute
Creative Embroidery Studies
(Completed 1990)

Member of the Embroiderers’ Guild
Member of South West Textile Group
Member of Somerset Art Week – Open Studio 1994,1996,1998,2000,2002,2004,2006

Taken part in a number of solo and group exhibitions across the country.

I have lived on the Somerset Levels since 1986 and the constant image of the pollarded willow and wetlands has been a major influence and inspiration for my work. I am currently exploring other landscapes and images in poetry in a both a representational and abstract way.  As an unashamed Romantic, I strive to translate the linguistic licence afforded to poets into impressions of beautiful places.

In my work I use a wide range of my own dyed fabrics, papers and photographs with a variety of machine and hand stitching.