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Tracey Benton felt sculptures are here!

Tracey Benton and her lovely felt sculptures are new to 45 Southside and already very popular.

Tracey spent many years studying and exploring ceramics, but the moment she started experimenting with wool, she was hooked. It’s a lovely natural material to work with and she is particularly drawn to its textural and sculptural qualities.

Tracey uses a process called needle felting (also known as dry felting) to create her birds and beasts. She uses a special needle with tiny notches that catches and binds the fibres together. Each piece is sculpted by hand and takes several hours to make. Details are added to the work using embroidery and beads. Her pieces are displayed on handmade ceramic bases ensuring each piece is truly unique.

Tracey draws her inspiration from the natural world around her: birds twittering at the bottom of the garden or a cheeky fox crossing her path when she is out walking the dog near her home in North Devon.

To see Tracey’s work in detail, please have a browse in our online shop

Tracey Benton – Moon Gazing Hare

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Title: Moon Gazing Hare

Other colours available

Artist: Tracey Benton

Material: Felted Wool, Beads

Dimensions: H: 16.50 cm D: 8.50 cm W: 4 cm

£ 80 each

Ref.: TB1

More about Tracey Benton

To view more work by Tracey Benton , please click on the tag in the right column.

For all insects lovers and budding entomologist

We have so much insect inspired art and jewellery at the minute, that I thought they deserved their own post. Adorn your walls with dragonflies made out of embroidered silk in boxes, butterflies made from wirework or a poetrytile featuring a grasshopper.

Kate Packer also makes bug and moth brooches as well as earrings and necklaces. They are all made from a combination of her intricately woven coloured metal wire and semi-precious stones or beads.

Flies, spiders and butterflies are also part of Remon Jephcott’s Victorian inspired ceramics. For her jewellery range she combines images of flies and spiders with traditional shapes and gold or silver lustre.

You can find a selection of works in the online shop and much more in our gallery on Plymouth’s historic Barbican.

Jane Price – Hawkers, Demoiselle and Darters

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Artist: Jane Price

Title: Hawkers, Demoiselle and Darters

Material: Textile, Embroidery, framed

Dimensions: H: 35 cm W: 35 cm D: 6 cm

SOLD

Ref.: JP10

More about Jane Price

To view more work by Jane Price, please click on the tag in the right column.

Textile Artist in the Spotlight : Jane Price

Today’s artist in the spotlight is Jane Price. Exactly four years ago, her work was our very first feature exhibition. At the time, Jane worked with inlaid papers and photo- and lucidagrams. Even though her work is mixed media, her first love was always textiles.

“45 Southside encourages experimentation which is an encouragement to an artist. This gallery has accepted and welcomed my diverse works in paper and textiles. My current brightly coloured abstracts have channelled an interest in saturated colour combi-nations; the works are like paintings but are also embroidered.”

“Being an artist involves developing new ideas, acquiring skills, responding to outside stimuli of time and place and implementing this acquisition of experience. Not repeating yourself is a challenge as it is a process of self discovery, but it is essential to keep studio practice vibrant. I believe in inclusion rather than exclusion and looking at drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, textiles, and papermaking are all enriching and interconnected disciplines! This cross fertilization is evident in the works I produce.”

Jane’s first year of art training was at Dartington College of Arts in 1967, followed by a Diploma in Art and Design in Textiles/Fashion at Camberwell School of Art 1968-1971. Jane lives and works from her studio in Exeter and has been a member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen for 25 years where she frequently exhibits.

Some of Jane’s work is also available in the online shop and more will be added very soon.

Feast your senses on textiles

This must be one of the most sumptuous and tactile exhibitions we have ever had. Come and see for yourself tomorrow from 3pm with a chance to meet some of the artists.

It is British wool week this week, which is a good reason to feature Debbie Rudolph’s weaving.

We will feature the other artists, fellow weaver Sue Spooner, contemporary embroidery by Jane Price and Beverley Bailey, mixed media textiles by Helen Edwards as well as ceramic panels, which started as embroidery by Emma West, in the coming days here in our news page..

Artisan Weaver Debbie Rudolph lives in Cornwall and gained extensive weaving experience during a degree from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London followed by a weaving scholarship with the International Wool Secretariat. Debbie uses her experience to create wonderful materials, which she turns into scarves, cushions, purses and bags. She weaves on a 40 year old Swedish made ‘Lillstina’ Loom. Her designs use surface texture and a bold approach to colour to create visually exciting and tactile beautiful textiles which conjure up other cultures and eras, while remaining refreshingly contemporary.

Find out more about the event on Saturday 19th October here.

Starting this October – Contemporary Textiles Exhibition

Join us for your chance to meet the artists on Saturday October 19th from 3pm.

We would love to see you.

Jane Price will be part of our textile exhibition in the autumn

Here at 45 Southside we are currently planning a textile exhibition from 18th October – 17th November 2013. Jane Price is one of the five artists who will be exhibiting. Part of the exhibtion will be three artists who have not exhibited with 45 Southside before, Debbie Rudolph, Sue Spooner and Emma West.

Jane has recently delivered some of her new work, a little taster of her textile work. Many of you will remember Jane for her stunning inlaid paper and three-dimensional mixed media pieces, but textiles and stitiching have always been part of her work.

Jane describes her latest work:

“45 Southside encourages experimentation which is an encouragement to an artist. This gallery has accepted and welcomed my diverse works in paper and textiles. My current brightly coloured abstracts have channelled an interest in saturated colour combinations; the works are like paintings but are also embroidered.”

Jane Price – Eight Pins

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Artist: Jane Price

Title: Eight Pins

Material: Textile, Embroidery, Paint

Dimensions (framed): H: 30 cm W: 35 cm D: 5 cm

£ 220

Ref.: JP5