Over the past few months everything has been online – online workshops, online talks and online meetings. It has been fantastic and I’ve really enjoyed working with people from Australi…
At the beginning of this year, just after the first lockdown began, I was supposed to be having an exhibition of new work here at the Art Gallery in Wells. Unfortunately, lockdown happened and it w…
Over the past few months everything has been online – online workshops, online talks and online meetings. It has been fantastic and I’ve really enjoyed working with people from Australi…
Do you ever feel as if you have been beavering away with nothing to show for it? That is how I am feeling at the moment. I have been working on a large piece for about three weeks now and things ar…
I have done some more Sea Edge drawings/monoprints that explore the time taken as you walk – its rhythm, regularity and change. I’m building up to something here, but at the moment I…
There is only a week to go before the Knitting & Stitching show! Nearly everything is packed up in copious amounts of bubblewrap and I am running around deciding on slightly strange things like…
Over the past few months everything has been online – online workshops, online talks and online meetings. It has been fantastic and I’ve really enjoyed working with people from Australi…
Over the past few months everything has been online – online workshops, online talks and online meetings. It has been fantastic and I’ve really enjoyed working with people from Australi…
What a hectic week! It started with me cutting up a piece of work and then deciding to make something new (that’s another story) and ended with setting up Chinese Whispers which is the new ex…
Yesterday morning, as I was sewing yet more eyelets into a piece of cloth, I was listening to Grayson Perry’s 4th Reith Lecture, I Found Myself in the Art World, on Radio 4. The part that mad…
What a hectic week! It started with me cutting up a piece of work and then deciding to make something new (that’s another story) and ended with setting up Chinese Whispers which is the new ex…
At the beginning of this year, just after the first lockdown began, I was supposed to be having an exhibition of new work here at the Art Gallery in Wells. Unfortunately, lockdown happened and it w…
Is it possible for music and sound to be a visual art as well as a hearing one? This is a question that I have been mulling over for some time and one that lies at the heart of the work I am doing …
About 6 months ago a friend popped an article through my letterbox and it has been percolating around in my mind ever since. From an issue of Horizons, the University of Cambridge’s research magazi…
Textile artist Debbie Lyddon makes non-representational objects, textile art installations and wall hung pieces that are inspired by nature, though not a
Debbie Lyddon is a textile artist and maker. Her work explores landscape and place and her inspiration comes from experiencing and paying attention to her surroundings. Debbie’s practice combines traditional stitch techniques with non-traditional materials such as bitumen, salt and wax to make ambiguous 2-D and 3-D works that evoke the sights, sounds and touch of coastal environments. Debbie has an MA in Contemporary Textiles from the University of Hertfordshire and is an exhibiting member and the current chair of the 62 Group of Textile Artists.
What a hectic week! It started with me cutting up a piece of work and then deciding to make something new (that’s another story) and ended with setting up Chinese Whispers which is the new ex…
Yesterday morning, as I was sewing yet more eyelets into a piece of cloth, I was listening to Grayson Perry’s 4th Reith Lecture, I Found Myself in the Art World, on Radio 4. The part that mad…
What a hectic week! It started with me cutting up a piece of work and then deciding to make something new (that’s another story) and ended with setting up Chinese Whispers which is the new ex…
I thought I’d show you what I got up to on the ArtVanGo, Artists in Action stand at the Knitting & Stitching show last Saturday. Seacoal, Cley clay, synthetic Indigo watercolour, graphite…
What a hectic week! It started with me cutting up a piece of work and then deciding to make something new (that’s another story) and ended with setting up Chinese Whispers which is the new ex…
At very short notice, I have been given the opportunity to show my Moments of Being work here in Wells-next-the-Sea. I am absolutely delighted about this as this is the place that inspired the whol…
I’ve had a spell of doing workshops recently and as a result I’ve had a few enquiries about future ones. I will be teaching Waxed and Stitched Collage at InStitches, Wokingham, Surrey …
Do you ever feel as if you have been beavering away with nothing to show for it? That is how I am feeling at the moment. I have been working on a large piece for about three weeks now and things ar…
I shall be showing some work at the Robert Phillips Gallery, Walton-on Thames as part of an exhibition titled The Makers’ Art. It is a group show for members of the Society of Designer Crafts…
Recently I have been re-reading books, that in the past, have been helpful in contextualising and backing up my practice. I am currently trying to ‘place’ the work I am doing at the mom…
