Stewart Francis Easton, Innovative Embroiderer

Lojong 9, Stewart Francis Easton, photo courtesy SFE Embroidered meditation Some years ago I rediscovered embroidering, after having paused for nearly 40 years. I needed some quietness in my head in exciting times. My restarting worked out well for me. Embroidering gave me such a “Zen feeling” again. In the meantime I have met a …

New Potatoes, Tilleke Schwarz

Playground, 2008, Tilleke Schwarz, courtesy by the artist Not being arty? “When I told gallery owners that I embroidered, they stop”. This is what Tilleke Schwarz (1946, Pijnacker, Netherlands) experienced in the nineties trying to exhibit and sell her work at galleries. Me myself I expericence the same when talking to people about my embroidery …