Textile Study Group
artists and tutors sharing ideas imagination and skills
Siân Martin
Siân Martin has been a maker of textile art since she graduated from Birmingham Polytechnic with a BA Hons and MA in Embroidery. She exhibits with the 62 Group of Textile Artists, and Stitch Textile Artists, as well as the Textile Study Group.
Siân gained her Art Teachers Diploma from the University of Leicester after graduating from Birmingham and enjoys teaching and encouraging others to experiment and explore their ideas through textiles. She runs workshops and lectures to many Embroiderers' Guild Branches and Textile Groups both in this country and abroad.
Tread Softly
Foot steps across a path of tiny fragments assembled with stitch refer to a quote from the poem by W B Yeats, 'He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven.
"I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
Humming the Air
'Ekphrasis' is a term from Greek rhetoric that originally meant the intense description of a thing, conjured so vividly in words as to appear before the mind's eye. Andrew Motion uses the phrase 'humming the air' to describe how poets should use this to make words appear to lift off the page in poetry.
Photo by Electric Egg
Closer view
Siân is tutor of the Stitch Textile Artists Masterclass at Urchfont Manor, Wiltshire.
She has devised and runs Distant Stitch through which students study textile courses online and by correspondence. Anyone interested in further information should visit www.distantstitch.co.uk for details of the courses on offer.
As an artist and maker, Siân is currently interested in organic pattern and lace forms, making assembled pieces of stitched fragments of fabrics, photos and paper.
Sian Martin
