catherine bailey
my creations begin with the seed of an idea. I draw and then move onto selecting
the fabrics and threads, scrutinising layout and colour, rejecting and changing,
developing and refining, until I meet with completion and contentment. I’m
Catherine, a Welsh textile artist, living and working from my studio in North
Wales, surrounded by beautiful countryside. The creative process is very fluid,
and that is what makes it exciting. I enjoy allowing the working process of
developing a piece, to also inform the outcome, rejecting notions of beginning
with a perfect idea of an end result in mind. It then allows me greater
flexibility to change and refine and be in the moment. I also create smaller
applique pieces are often more predictable, and I regularly portray bucolic
landscapes, coastal and nautical, flora and fauna.