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Jane Denton Textile Art and Design
I’ve always loved working with colour. In my twenties I made jewellery and sold it to shops around NZ and it was always about the colour of the beads. After that I did a creativity course through ‘Learning Connexion’ where I enjoyed working with graphite, charcoal and pastels, but I particularly loved the pastels because the colours could be so warm and vibrant. After we had bought our home and had our first child I wanted some art for our walls but couldn’t find anything we loved that was in our price range. So I set up a space to start to create something myself but at the time I didn’t actually know what I was going to make. I’d originally thought I would design some patterns on the computer and print them, but it didn’t feel like enough, the pictures were too “flat”, I wanted more texture and a point of difference with my work.
Kirsty Gibson
One day I found some old wool I’d kept from years before from a Jennifer Pudney cross stitch kit and I absolutely loved the colours. Around the same time I was driving through Wellington (down Vivian Street) and saw a wire fence where people had wound wool around parts of the fence in various shapes. And I guess that’s where it all began. I came home, got the wool out and started stitching onto linen fabric the same long stitches I’d just seen on the fence. Where does your inspiration come from? I’m always looking at colour combinations, I often save pictures or take photos of colours I love together. I usually come up with the colours I want to work with and then the design comes to me, often when I’m trying to get to sleep!