Jan Dowson: Award-Winning Textile Art Tutor & Textile Artist

Jan Dowson: Award-Winning Textile Art Tutor & Textile Artist

Today on the Stitchery Stories textile art podcast, Jan Dowson shares her joy of teaching textile art over 20 years and in the process facilitating 8 students who achieved City & Guilds Gold Medals. Jan has also received a City & Guilds Gold Medal for teaching as well as 2 other prestigious awards. Following retirement, it's now 'her time' to focus on her own textile art and enjoy her own creativity.

Susan Weeks chats with Jan about:

• A busy exhibition schedule at the start of 2018
• Creating a very successful career in textile art tuition
• Expressing challenging subjects in textile art
• Her ongoing inspiration from a wide variety of sources, including family members and memories, dog walks, and the nearby sea.
• Loving simplistic applique and slow hand stitch, darned, covered surfaces
• Using felt, wire and lots of paint to transform fabric into 'something else'
• Facilitating 8 City & Guilds Gold Medals awarded to her students over the years.
• Winning her own City & Guilds Gold Medal for teaching
• An additional award from the Worshipful Company Of Broderers
• Why Jan loves to polish her work room sink....
• Winning the Embroiderers Guild Beryl Dean Award for Teaching Excellence in Embroidery & Design in 2015
• If you don't like your piece... cut it up or throw paint on it!
• Taxidermy - is this the latest challenge for Jan?

For this episode... View Show Notes, Links & Photographs at http://www.stitcherystories.com/jandowson

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