Textural Landscape Embroidery
Course Description:
This course is designed both for beginners and participants with some experience in stitching.
You will be learning how to interpret a landscape project with variety of stitches combined into structures. Different textures of stitches can wonderfully express different areas of a landscape: grassy hills, meadows, fields, water, rock formations and wisps of clouds.
You will work with a photograph of an Irish landscape as a reference and embroider lines and structures of stitches on a project drawn from this photograph. You will be taught to use flat and three-dimensional stitches to express a variety of textures according to how they appear in nature.
The students will need to provide their own materials and tools for the course. For further information on what you will need for the entire course and suggestions on where to get them, go to: https://cutt.ly/embroidery-landscape
You can also contact Uisce Jakubczyk (the tutor) directly with any questions related to the course, via email to: uiscestitch@gmail.com
The tutor will send the photograph and the design before the first class, together with a method of transferring the design onto a piece of fabric. Please note you have to be able to print the design (black & white plain A4 paper) for the transferring it onto fabric.
Course Day & Time: Thursday evening 8.00 – 9.00pm.
Start Date: 15/04/21
Cost: €65
Course Format: Remotely via zoom
Duration: 6 weeks
Tutor: Uisce Jakubczyk
I am a weaver, embroiderer and fibre arts teacher from Poland, living in Ireland since 2004. My textile art has been exhibited in group exhibitions in Ireland, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania and Taiwan. I am a recipient of several awards in Ireland and abroad.
My main focus in my art practice is on minimal woven art and medieval styles, techniques and images in embroidery.
I have been teaching various fibre arts courses and workshops from 2013 in Co. Dublin, Dublin City, Co. Louth, Co. Wicklow and Co. Down. In 2018/2019 I was working for Creative Spark, Dundalk, providing embroidery workshops for community projects. Since 2016 I teach various workshops at the Séamus Ennis Arts Centre in Naul. In 2020 I started teaching fibre arts courses at Malahide Community School.
I am an author of a large scale tapestry Women of Fingal (completed in March 2021) funded by Creative Ireland and commissioned by Fingal County Council.
I practice historical fencing with sabre, longsword and sword & buckler as a member of HEMA Ireland (the national Historical European Martial Arts federation).
Education:
- Master Degree in Musicology, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland
- Journeyman in artistic weaving, People’s University in Turno, Poland
Online gallery: www.behance.net/uisceartef3b
Facebook: UisceArt
Instagram: uiscesart
Blog: www.tangledinfibres.blogspot.com
E-mail: uiscestitch@gmail.com
