Linda Walsh – Phoenix Contemporary Textiles

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Linda mostly makes textile art pieces for the wall – both framed and free-hanging. She loves stitch and finds the movement of needle and thread through fabric an absorbing occupation. She enjoys creating rich, textured and subtly coloured surfaces using dyed fabric, paper and chiffons. Patterns, natural and manmade, and manipulated photographs printed onto fabric form the basis for many of her pieces. She also thrives on travelling and her work is often themed on places she has been, where quick sketches and many photographs help her to build up an impression of the place. She also makes textile based jewellery and gifts – brooches, necklaces, notebooks and so on

For most of her life Linda has been a maths teacher who embroidered in her spare time. But during a spell living in Singapore, she was able to study the culture and textiles of South East Asia. Since October 2000, she has followed her second career as a textile artist, exhibiting in both solo and group shows (about 130 so far!).

In 2011, Linda was voted runner up in the Baines Surrey Artist of the Year by visitors to her Open Studio and to the finalist exhibition in the New Ashgate Gallery in Farnham.

She also gives talks and runs workshops for Embroiderers Guild groups and others.

qualifications

1994-8 City & Guilds in Embroidery and Design at Richmond Adult College

membership

Modus Embroidered Textiles
Kaleidoscope Arts – an occasional exhibiting group of artists and crafts people
Fountain Gallery, East Molesey – founder member of the managing co-operative
Teddington Artists – a select group of professional artists with an annual exhibition

exhibitions

Linda belongs to the artists association that runs the Fountain Gallery in East Molesey where she has an annual solo show. Most recently she has joined the group running the Artshed at the Medicine Garden in Cobham where she has a continuous rotating display. She has also exhibited at a growing list of other venues including:

2001-18 … Annual solo show at the Fountain Gallery, East Molesey
2016-18 … Member of the Artshed in Cobham (finished June 2018)
2001-15 … Annual solo show at the Fountain Gallery, East Molesey
2013-15 … Ramster Embroidery Exhibition
2012 … The Sunbury Embroidery Gallery
2010 … The inaugural Fulham Palace Art Fair
2008 … The Orangery, Holland Park in London
2004-12 … Biennial Network Magazine Artists Show, Stables Gallery, Twickenham
2001-06 … The Contemporary Textiles Fair at Landmark Arts Centre in Teddington
2003 … The Fresh Art Fair in Islington
2003 … Osterley House, (National Trust)
2002 … Gallery Amimoni in Ioannina, Greece

work sold

Major commission (2.5m x 3m) for the Tilda Rice Company UK headquarters in Rainham Essex

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