Caroline Hyde-Brown is a textile artist with a long-established career.
Inspired by botanical research, she combines foraged plant material with a variety of textile art techniques to create fascinating weaves and vessels with fragile beauty. Combined with her purposeful art practice experience, Caroline shares plenty of wisdom on Stitchery Stories textile art podcast.
With so many inspiring aspects to Caroline's textile art career, in this episode of Stitchery Stories we chose to focus on some unique plant-based research projects that Caroline has been involved with over the last couple of years. Firstly, on a project focused on the Grass Pea plant. And secondly on a project based around extracting natural dyes from food waste. These were truly fascinating and highlight the innovative use of plant-based materials within Caroline's textile art.
Susan Weeks chats with Caroline Hyde-Brown about:
- Overwintering in her practice, her garden and her art.
- Combining foraged plant materials with textile art techniques
- Purposeful development of an art practice
- The importance of outreach and connections
- Her love of nature and plants and research
- Making paper with grass pea fibres
- Extracting natural dyes from food waste from UK & Malaysia
- Contrasting writing styles for academic writing & art book
- Writing her first book 'Forage & Stitch'
- A hard lesson in understanding a design brief & clear communication
- And plenty more besides!
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