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". |
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. |
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. |
Rows
n Rows detail
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. |
Email: enid.davies23@btopenworld.com
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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