My practice centers on contemporary embroidery and moves across the boundaries of craft, art and design.
Using hand and machine embroidery, screen printing, appliqué and needle-punch techniques, a personal language of abstracted forms and figurative images is continuously developing and springs from a variety of sources, such as; anatomy, nature and our relationship with the environment. Also folklore, customs and superstitions, witchcraft, religion and fertility rites that connected people with the natural environment and have provided a means of celebrating the world around us.
Recent work concentrates on printed and embroidered framed pictures and panels, worked on found fabrics and linens. Semi-figurative still lives and landscapes suggest narrative possibilities, and reference either domestic interior objects and spaces, or exterior environments.
Please see the website for further details of exhibitions, galleries and stockists.
Image credits (from left): Green Bottle (Maxine Sutton), Black Tree (Maxine Sutton), Sheila (Maxine Sutton)
Maxine Sutton
Interior Textiles
8 King Street Margate Kent CT9 1DA
T: 01843 570 752
Contact: Maxine Sutton
info@maxinesutton.com
Award winner!
Maxine was selected for a Reflect Forward award, and looked at objects from the collections & archives of the Geffrye Museum. Her research lead to an exhibition of new work at Craft Central, in May 2008.