Enid Davies
is a professional artist/maker and lecturer in
Stitched Textiles
in full time Further Education and adults for City & Guilds Embroidery at levels 1- 4.
Her own work has traveled through many stages, each mew project or series of work moving forward but not losing track of what the subject is about or where the work is to hang. She is continually experimenting and extending the concept of Textile Art.
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Girl
35cms x 25cms stitched and white painted ground canvas with sheer fabrics free machine stitched and applied. Finished with acrylic wax.
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Hand Picked
40cms x 30cms Stitched and white painted ground canvas with sheer fabrics free machine stitched and applied. Additional free machine stitched flowers applied in 3D
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Just a Glimmer
40cms x 40cms mesh with 30cms x 25cms canvas. Stitched and white painted ground canvas. Melted and fused plastic with sticks, wire and bead embellishment.
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Just Looking
40cms x 30cms stitched and white painted ground canvas with sheer fabrics free machine stitched and applied. Additional free machine stitched flowers applied in 3D
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At present Enid is working with mixed media and both hand and machine embroidery, making contemporary hangings and panels for commercial and domestic situations. Whatever the subject she has chosen as her source her work is inevitably influenced by her childhood memories of her fathers’ nursery and the plants and flowers grown there. Some of her work carries copies of the diary her father kept as an apprentice gardener in1922
"There were greenhouses full of flowers, row and rows of vivid colours. Stripes of colour and texture have been featuring in my current works, which then sometimes become like landscape. This seems to be as a result of journeys through the Welsh hillsides which I love and where I live and work"
The collection that included the diary fragments were mounted on Slate tiles as a reflection of the old greenhouse floors.
"I enjoy searching through the boxes of tiles to find just the right one with glorious colours and patterns. They seem very heavy but have hung for some time in both my kitchen and Hall! I have admired the work of Clyde Oliver who drills and stitches slate and stones to create beautiful sculptures, and although I have abandoned slate at the moment, I feel sure I will return to it with my garden projects".
Photos transferred to fabric have been used in some works and figures are beginning to feature on canvases that are stitched and painted white. Further stitching, fabrics, sticks wire and beads are added
"I have been attending some life-drawing classes to hone skills and am enjoying taking these figurative images into fabric and threads. The artist Shizuko Kimura works directly with needle, thread and fabric from the model with exciting vitality. I don’t pretend such skills but am enjoying bringing the figure into my work".
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Loves me, loves me not?
35cms x 25cms Stitched and white painted ground canvas then colour washed, with sheer fabrics free machine stitched and applied. Finished with acrylic wax. Machined voile flowers applied in 3D
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Row on Row
40cms x40cms mesh 25cm x25cm canvas. Stitched and white painted ground canvas. A band of machine and hand embroidered cotton, white painted and dyed with applied fused glass, sticks, wire and beads
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In the interest of her teaching work Enid has been using the computer as a design tool and feels she could easily be seduced by the magic that can be achieved at the touch of a button.
"I am excited about the revolution of technology in textiles, but I do not want to be tied to having vastly expensive equipment to achieve effects that could be done by hand or with domestic equipment. Whilst I realize that hand work is time constrained, I would hate to lose all the skills a effects that can be gained in traditional stitch work and hope that a combination of both can be successful in this modern world"
Enid has continually developed her style and techniques and has become interested in producing work to be used in the garden, conservatory, bathroom or greenhouse. This presents a problem of the ‘materials’ that can be used in a damp environment. This is an ongoing investigation which is bringing her full circle in reflecting both her own and her fathers’ love for the outdoors.
Enid has undertaken commissioned pieces for private collectors and welcomes further enquiries.
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Rows n Rows
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120cms x 120cms Stitched and white painted ground canvas with a paint textured surface. A band of machine and hand embroidered cotton, white painted and dyed. Paper, fused plastic and applied sticks, wire and beads, finished with acrylic wax.
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Rows and Rows
25cm x25cm canvas. Stitched and white painted ground canvas. A band of machine and hand embroidered cotton, white painted and dyed. Fused plastic with applied sticks, wire and beads.
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Summary
"I have been teaching Creative Embroidery skills since 1987 & have had three students Highly commended in the City & Guilds National Award Scheme and this year had two students complete the pilot of Level 4 Stitched Textiles achieving Distinction and Merit. I am constantly attending courses & lectures and familiarize myself with current trends & new materials. My personal work is continually developing meeting deadlines for Exhibitions & Commissions as an individual and as a member of Context Art 2000".
Education
1964/67 State Registered Nurse The London Hospital
1983/85 City & Guilds Creative Embroidery Part 1
1985/87 City & Guilds Creative Embroidery Part 2
1987/89 City & Guilds Creative F.E.T.C. Part 1 & 2
1994/95 T.D.L.B D32/33
1995/96 Certificate of Education
2000 Introduction to Photoshop
2001 Intermediate Photoshop techniques
2002 ECDL
2004 Life drawing
Work Experience
67/71 London Hospital Staff Nurse, Agency, & Theatre Staff Nurse
87/96 West Glamorgan Adult Education Needlecraft
89/93 Workshops Library & Museum Education Service
90/98 Gorseinon College A level Textiles, GNVQ Art & Design
93/00 Swansea College City & Guilds Creative Skills Part 1&2
94 Inset teaching West Glamorgan CC Secondary Education
95 Workshop International University of Florida. Art in Wales
99/00 ND Fashion Surface Pattern. Swansea college
2000/2004 FT Textiles Gorseinon College.AVCE, AS, A Level, C&G Embroidery.
2002 Level 4 Stitched Textiles.
2003 Writing of online delivery of C&G Embroidery 7823
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