Textiles Illustration - Within each piece of work I aim to capture a moment of life or an observation that I find amusing, sensitive or quirky. I like to include snippets of narrative either including text or embedded within the visual content of the piece. I draw in stitch onto mixed media canvasses and work my ideas directly from sketches, drawings and found imagery. My inspiration comes from everywhere!
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Brief CV
Jo Newman - Textile Artist/Illustrator BA HONS Fashion & Textiles – Winchester PGCFHE - Cheltenham LECTURER Visual Arts - Birmingham City University
Freelance Costume Commissions – Working with Costume designer and maker Trevor Collins -
Starlight Express Cats Phantom of the Opera Royal Shakespeare Company Midsummer Nights Dream Macbeth Welsh National Opera Saddlers Wells Ballet The Follies Kiss me Kate Alice in Wonderland Cilla Black- Blind Date Saturday Night Live at the London Palladium Torvil and Dean- Fire and Ice Spectacular Life of Lowry- A Simple Man
Harrods Window Displays – Backdrop commission
Publicity - The Hat Shop, Covent Garden Tattler- Fashion feature Wolkenkratzer German Art Journal-‘Hats’ Over 21 - Fashion feature- ‘Hats’ Crafts Magazine
Exhibitions and Commissions of Textile Illustrations and Drawings -