Seashore Birds - 2024 Collection - TWO SOLD
By Maggie Chinn
Textile collage
Original artwork
Framed - variety of depths of frame, some self-standing
Image size: H:12cm x W:12cm
Size of framed work: H: 27cm x W: 27cm
There are also rectangular pictures of the same scale image H: 12cm x W: 12cm, framed: H: 32cm x W: 23cm
£95-120 each
Curlew, puffin and seagulls: they're the stuff of British coastal holidays and they're also the stars of this latest 2023 range of textile pictures by this versatile and inventive artist and former fabric designer.
French knots and detailed free machine and hand embroidery, coupled with vintage fabrics and clever layering of soft sheens, create these beautiful scenes in appropriate muted, sea-side colours.
Every artwork is handmade and unique.
ABOUT MAGGIE CHINN
Former fabric designer, Maggie, has been saving scraps of fabric ever since she worked for Viyella back in the 1980s. Now she turns them into detailed embroidered pictures, often of farmyard animals like pigs, sheep and hens, each one unique.
More recently, she has branched out into other birds, seashores and wonderful floral appliqué pieces, some of which we have on show. They are embellished with a wide variety of stitches, beads and sequins and make eye-catching interior decorations as well as ideal, arty gifts.
Maggie attended Batley School of Art and Design (near Leeds) to study Surface Pattern Design, a highly commercial course covering all aspects of pattern design on textiles, including furnishing, fashion and wallpaper .
She joined women's clothing brand Viyella, in Derbyshire, as a fabric designer, then moved to a studio in Nottingham, working for large companies such as M & S and Next.
Later, in 2001, she completed an Interior Crafts and Creative Embroidery qualification at Warwickshire College in Leamington Spa. From all these roots her current work has developed, based on her unique designs and ideas.
Today, she works from her home near Rugby in Warwickshire.