Profile
Shireen lives and works in Dorset, so she is much inspired and influenced by country life, the characters and wildlife are much in evidence in her work. She has always been passionate about art in all its forms coming to textile art quite late in life... Drawing has always featured very strongly in everything she does, capturing a moment that is interesting, amusing or sad is a real passion and because of that her images in textiles are always informed by her drawing.
For the final years exhibition she spent long hours drawing at a Poultry Auction in the heart of Dorset. This enabled her to capture the amazing characters and animals that she found absolutely fascinating and to interpret them in paint stitch and fabric.
She has now started using her diaries, which are part sketch book, and which accompany her where ever she travels, creating a story about the places she visits. Some of her latest images are wildlife based using her drawings of insects and butterflies.
Qualifications
Diploma in H.E. Stitched Textiles 2007
City & Guilds part I and II
Memberships
Licentiate of the Society of Designer-Craftsmen
HapticArt
Exhibitions
Black Swan Frome Somerset Sept 2010
Dorset Arts Week Gillingham Dorset June 2010
Private exhibition Gillingham Dorset November 2009
'On the edge' Sunbury-on Thames Embroidery Gallery Sept 2009
Petworth Textile Fair May 2009
Art Van Go Knebworth July 2008
HapticArt, Art Van Go Studio, Hertfordshire, 2008
Degree show at East Berkshire College, Windsor, 2007
Contact
Email: shireenann@o2.co.uk