by Cathy Jack Coupland | May 27, 2024 | Blog
Constructive feedback for your artwork is hard. Do you self-critique or rely on the opinions of others? One is necessary – the other, I’m not so sure about. Our inner artist needs to tread wisely here because creating art is emotive and sensitive, so receiving...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | May 13, 2024 | Blog
In this episode of the Stitch Safari Podcast, I want to make people think and have an understanding of what our expectations are for the workshops we book into. Is it to take work in a particular direction, or is it to have fun, relax and enjoy creating with other...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Apr 29, 2024 | Blog
To move forward with our work we need to exercise all the areas of artistic life that many don’t think about and even more, don’t or won’t acknowledge. But these reliable, dependable, and all-so-necessary areas are there, because if we don’t work with them, we...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Apr 14, 2024 | Blog
Can I encourage embroidery and textile artists to at least think about starting a blog? Let’s see. The worlds of embroidery and textiles must be two of the most exotic, artistic, expressive and creative genres known to man – imagine all that amazing history,...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Apr 5, 2024 | Blog
In my online research, I come across the good, the bad and the just plain ugly when it comes to websites. So when I land on a website that’s uplifting, easy to navigate and provides what I’m looking for, I’m happy to list them. As a textile artist, I...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Jan 20, 2023 | Blog
The idea of using either paper or metal in embroidery work is to add to the offering of infinite creative options available to the modern embroiderer. Metal thread embroidery has a close attachment to the symbolic significance of gold, representing the magical power...
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