Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you - Frank Lloyd Wright
Liz creates extraordinary, intuitive and bold hand embroidery, which is highly textured and colourful. She uses the art of hand stitching to tell a narrative of nature, symbolism, design and character. Her background in fine art is evident in Liz's drawings and designs and she blends colours and textures to create great detail, often using single stands of thread. Liz uses sustainably sourced materials and likes to gives old threads a new life. She is drawn to the natural world around where she lives in Sussex. Birds make a regular appearance in her work.
Liz works from her garden studio near Hastings In East Sussex. She is drawn to the surrounding nature and countryside where she finds constant inspiration. Liz is intrigued by the role nature plays in our current lives and how it brings comfort and calm. Her work leans towards this idea along with the spiritual side and symbols connected to the natural world. Liz creates hand embroidered amulets and brooches which are highly colourful and descriptive and which aim to comfort and give a sense of confidence to the wearer. The act of creating a stitch by her own hands is at the heart of Liz's practise. Making a mark, a symbol onto fabric with threads is the starting point of creating for her. Liz runs workshops throughout the year and starts by introducing her students to the act of creating the very simplest of stitches and how this can create something so effective and meaningful. With a Degree in Fine Art Liz later fell in love with textiles and embroidery after her mother gave her some of her embroidery threads.
You can find her work online;
The Crafts Council Directory Of Makers
https://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/directory/liz-padgham-major
The Society Of Designer Craftsmen
https://societyofdesignercraftsmen.org.uk/our-makers/liz-padgham-major