by Dawn Foxall | Dec 11, 2024
TEA ‘N CHAT – MARK MAKING FOR TEXTILES + NICKY SIMPSON
17 JUNE 2025
TIME: 7-8pm
FREE EVENT
This event is held on ZOOM, so please register to get the Zoom details.
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Join us for a FREE Tea ‘N Chat with NICKY SIMPSON talking about mark making for textiles and her online courses.
Nicky’s aim is to show how easily accessible mark making can be for every level of student and how it can be delivered in a fun and engaging way.
She will also introduce you to her online and face-2-face courses with an opportunity to ask questions.
The Textiles Skills Centre Associates are a team of volunteers that manage the social media platforms and website, and offer support, mentorship and advice to textile teachers and trainees. We organise free resource networking events each month (Tea ‘N Chat) and are always on hand to help and encourage when needed.
We are always looking for new Associate members, so if you would like to join this small team then do contact us at: info@textileskillscentre.com
At the moment all costs are met by our team and time is given freely. If you are able to support us with a donation, however small, this will help to enhance the work we are doing.
You can donate using the BUY A TEAM A COFFEE donation button below. All donations gratefully received.
(Especially ☕ and cake!! )
by Dawn Foxall | Sep 11, 2024
TEA ‘N CHAT with LINDA HARVEY – Textile Artist
1 APRIL 2025
TIME: 7-8pm
FREE ONLINE EVENT – This event is held on ZOOM, so please register to get the Zoom details.
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Join us for a FREE Tea ‘N Chat with Textile artist and teacher LINDA HARVEY who talks about her work.
We are excited to have the immensely talented mixed-media textile artist Linda Harvey join us for our April Tea ‘N Chat event. With over 25 years of experience in both teaching and creating, Linda brings a deep well of knowledge and a true passion for her craft. As the Head of Textiles at Archbishop Holgate’s School in York and a dedicated member of York Textile Artists and The Society for Embroidered Work, Linda’s commitment to her art is truly inspiring.
Linda’s artwork is a mesmerizing fusion of rustic textures and innovative techniques. Drawing inspiration from her travels, she transforms photographs into expressive, abstract textile creations. Her work beautifully reflects her love for color and texture, incorporating elements such as hand-felted backgrounds, free-motion embroidery, intricate layering, and rust dyeing.
Follow Linda here: Artists Website: https://www.lindaharveytextiles.co.uk/
Artists Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindaharveytextiles/
LINDA HARVEY Textile Artist and Head of Textiles at Archbishop Colgate School, York
Linda studied Textiles and Surface Design at University Centre Somerset, graduating in 1994. She is a textile artist and Head of Textiles at a York secondary school and a member of York Textile Artists and The Society for Embroidered Work, which promotes and supports the best in stitched art worldwide.
The inspiration for her work mainly comes from the places she visits, taking photographs of anything that catches her eye. These photographs give a starting point from which her work evolves, often working on several pieces at a time, as she enjoys an expressive and experimental way of working.
Linda is inspired by rustic textures and the ageing process, drawn to anything corroded and tarnished and immediately seeing how it can be turned into a textile art piece. Colour and texture are the key elements in her work.
The Textiles Skills Centre Associates are a team of volunteers that manage the social media platforms and website, and offer support, mentorship and advice to textile teachers and trainees. We organise free resource networking events each month (Tea ‘N Chat) and are always on hand to help and encourage when needed. We are always looking for new Associate members, so if you would like to join this small team then do contact us at: info@textileskillscentre.com
At the moment all costs are met by our team and time is given freely. If you are able to support us with a donation, however small, this will help to enhance the work we are doing.
You can donate using the BUY THE TEAM A COFFEE donation button below. All donations gratefully received.
(Especially ☕ and cake!! )
by Dawn Foxall | Sep 11, 2024
A talk with NIKKI PARMENTER – Textiles/Mixed Media Artist
FREE ONLINE EVENT
TUESDAY 15TH OCTOBER
START TIME: 7.00pm
This event is held on ZOOM, so please register to get the Zoom details.
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Join our TEA ’N CHAT with Textile Artist Nikki Parmenter, who will talk about her work, explaining some of the techniques she uses.
She will also demonstrate the plastic entrapment method she will be using for her workshop on Wednesday 6th November and show some finished examples. This will entail some layering of fabric, soldering and free machine embroidery and some ideas regarding ways of displaying the finished piece.
Nikki taught art for 30 years to secondary school children, and having left full time work in 2016 , has been providing talks, demonstrations, summer schools, workshops to schools, groups and societies. She is a member of various art and textile groups.
She exhibits her work widely and has written a number of articles for both magazines and online sites. She is based in Cheshire and specialises in mixed media textile pieces, taking inspiration from a variety of sources and particularly interested in the way societies created a series of visual symbols to represent the things which were important to them. She investigates myths, legends, stories and beliefs. She is also inspired by art, architecture and artefacts.
This event is held on ZOOM, so please register to get the Zoom details.
The Textiles Skills Centre Associates are a team of volunteers that manage the social media platforms and website, and offer support, mentorship and advice to textile teachers and trainees. We organise free resource networking events each month (Tea ‘N Chat) and are always on hand to help and encourage when needed. We are always looking for new Associate members, so if you would like to join this small team then do contact us at: info@textileskillscentre.com
At the moment all costs are met by our team and time is given freely. If you are able to support us with a donation, however small, this will help to enhance the work we are doing.
You can donate using the DONATION button below which will take you to the Paypal donations page, or select an amount when you book the event. All donations gratefully received.
by Dawn Foxall | Feb 19, 2024
STUDENT SKETCHBOOKS – for Art Textiles GCSE
NICKY SIMPSON – Textiles Artist & Trainer
DATE: THURSDAY 16TH APRIL
START TIME: 7.00pm
FREE EVENT HELD ON ZOOM
This event is held on Zoom so you need to register to get the zoom details to join us 🙂
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*OPEN TO STUDENTS* GET YOUR STUDENTS TO JOIN US!!
Mounting and Presenting Students Work
Join us for a session on developing a great sketchbook with Nicky Simpson. Student sketchbooks will demonstrate their creative process, showing initial ideas, links to artists/designers to development of ideas.
How can your students ‘demonstrate the ability to construct a sustained line of reasoning, which is coherent, relevant, substantiated and logically structured’, in their sketchbook.
How can a student present ‘all their knowledge, skills, understanding and activities relevant to their creative journey’.
The sketchbook should demonstrate a ‘substantive, focused project, a progression of ideas rather than a series of disjointed tasks, and work should evidence all the Assessment Objectives holistically as well as cover the chosen areas of study’.
- What is the best way to mount and present students work?
- How can students work independently in their sketchbooks
- Where and how to present annotation
- How to cover all the assessment objectives
- How to make connections to artists and designers, primary, mark making and developed work.
Nicky will show examples of good sketchbooks and how to get students inspired and presenting their work in a coherent and expressive way.
Your students are welcome to join the session, so please do get them to register.
This event is held on Zoom so you need to register to get the zoom details to join us 🙂
NICKY SIMPSON
NICKY SIMPSON is a contemporary textiles artist with 12 years teaching experience, heading up Fashion & Textiles at Hillview School in Kent. She has taught Art & Design Textiles at GCSE and A Level, AQA Design and Technology/Textiles at A Level and GCSE and BTEC Level 3 Fashion. Her last set of grades were: A Level 100% A-A*; GCSE 70% A-A* (100% A*-B).
She had a previous 22-year career as a print designer in the heart of London. For the past 8 years Nicky has been a course and workshop developer and leader for Textile and Art teachers on behalf of the Textile Skills Centre.
This event is held on Zoom so you need to register to get the zoom details and list of equipment needed to join in:)
This event is held on Zoom so you need to register to get the zoom details to join us 🙂
The Textiles Skills Centre Associates are a team of volunteers that manage the social media platforms and website, and offer support, mentorship and advice to textile teachers and trainees. We organise free resource networking events each month (Tea ‘N Chat) and are always on hand to help and encourage when needed.
We are always looking for new Associate members, so if you would like to join this small team then do contact us at: info@textileskillscentre.com
At the moment all costs are met by our team and time is given freely. If you are able to support us with a donation, however small, this will help to enhance the work we are doing.
You can donate using the DONATION button below which will take you to the Paypal donations page, or select an amount when you book the event. All donations gratefully received.
DONATIONS
by Dawn Foxall | Jan 16, 2024
A talk with Angela Walker – Textiles Teacher and Weaver
TUESDAY 14TH MAY
START TIME: 7.00pm
FREE EVENT HELD ON ZOOM
This event is held on Zoom so you need to register to get the zoom details to join us 🙂
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Join our TEA ’N CHAT with ANGELA WALKER (plus special guest appearance from Rowan the house Angora!)
We often forget or take for granted where our clothes and other items come from and how they are made, the plants or animals that supply us with everyday essentials and what goes into their production.
There is something so natural and relaxing about working with fibre, creating something from start to finish is truly rewarding. In a fast-paced digital global world, it has never been more important to connect with nature, explore sustainable resources and create something ourselves that is authentic. Fibre arts have been used throughout history and in all cultures for various purposes from clothing and warmth to adornment and demonstration of wealth to communicating messages, emotions or meaning such as more recent political forms such as yarn bombing and protest textiles.
Angela will talk about starting with fibre, from collecting it yourself, the processes involved such as carding and spinning (the different types), through to weaving (different looms) and needle felting that can be used in an arts based or fashion context. She will cover how this can be incorporated into the classroom and workshops or extra-curricular activities.
This event is held on Zoom so you need to register to get the zoom details to join us 🙂
Angela Walker
Angela currently works as a Textiles, Art and D&T Teacher (plus a little French GCSE!) as well as running a few workshops, volunteering and making the occasional fashion clothing request.
Angela has an MA in Fashion and Textiles, though initially started a global corporate career in law and politics, but always took her sewing machine and paints with her.
Wanting to still pursue fashion and textiles, Angela moved into a legal department in a fashion company as a Quality Controller, then a Garment Tech, later moving into FE teaching and interpreting before becoming a teacher in secondary schools in the UK during covid.
Angela is also a member of a local Textiles group and volunteers with organisations such as Mind (running art and textile workshops), local sensory charities and demonstrates weaving techniques at events like Wool at Junction 13. She keeps her own Angora and uses the fibre to card, spin, weave and felt herself.
This event is held on Zoom so you need to register to get the zoom details to join us 🙂
The Textiles Skills Centre Associates are a team of volunteers that manage the social media platforms and website, and offer support, mentorship and advice to textile teachers and trainees. We organise free resource networking events each month (Tea ‘N Chat) and are always on hand to help and encourage when needed.
We are always looking for new Associate members, so if you would like to join this small team then do contact us at: info@textileskillscentre.com
At the moment all costs are met by our team and time is given freely. If you are able to support us with a donation, however small, this will help to enhance the work we are doing.
You can donate using the DONATION button below which will take you to the Paypal donations page, or select an amount when you book the event. All donations gratefully received.
DONATIONS
