susie koren

colour earth cloth

coastal landscape, northern light, human marks that map the land, repetitive rhythms of nature provide endless inspiration for my textile artwork

about

field trips are integral to textile artist Susie Koren’s research. Her textile artwork is exhibited internationally, in prestigious UK galleries and has received the Royal Cambrian Selectors Prize and Fine Art Textile Award. Her pioneering investigation to apply earth pigments to cloth resulted in the development of the soya milk binder she’s used for the past decade. Hand stitch adds additional context, it is drawing with thread, a visual language drawn from her library of adapted stitch techniques

BIO

about my work

quietly immersing myself in the process I paint and stitch, building up layers creating the narrative of place using earth pigments that leaves crusty patches on the cloth

mediative hand stitch adds colour, shading, movement, I follow marks, contours and other geological references that forms texture and undulations like you find on the earth’s surface

with an itinerant childhood and enquiring mind observing maps, geography and geology informs my work, experiencing first-hand the repetitive rhythms of nature through walking, gathering and recording often returning to familiar places to witness the changing environment and weather patterns