July 17th - Imagined Seascapes - Amanda Hislop

Amanda started her talk by telling us that she started her textile life as a weaver. She the went on to teach art at a secondary school.

She is a member of the textile group Prism.

In 2019 she had her book Stitched Textiles - Seascapes published. In lockdown she re read her book as reassurance.

With this renewed inspiration, Amanda started to create sketchbooks and boards to bring seascapes into her studio

She was sent  a package to sample from Derwent which she used to develop ideas.

Amanda then adds stitch

Both by machine

and by hand

She finds working by hand better when she is demonstrating at exhibitions.

Amanda  then went on to show us some of her sketchbooks, both of imagined seascapes, but also of views from her daily walk.

She finished the afternoon by demonstrating her paint techniques and the finally how she added texture with wet strength tissue, threads and scrim

Thank you Amanda for an interesting talk and demonstration which gave us lots of ideas.