A note from the Editor.

Enjoy the summer with Embroidery magazine

In the July/August issue of Embroidery magazine, we visit the beach through the work of Jane Colquhoun and Capucine Bourcart. From her Swanage sewing room, Jane Colquhoun has a view of the sea and coastal influences inspire her. After joining the experimental textile group seam collective, her work changed course with several series of intriguing small figures occupying her practice, including the stunning image featured on our cover. Similarly, US-based artist Capucine Bourcart has an experimental approach to art, using sand alongside embroidery.

Elsewhere, we preview the Harewood Biennial, meet a Japanese embroiderer whose practice is built around vegetables, delve inside a book that explores the connection between brain, manual dexterity and craft, and peek inside Vanessa’s Marr’s sewing room.

We bring you two tributes to the much-missed Louise Gardiner, whose beautiful work leaves a lasting legacy, and Christine Chester, whose quilt honouring the unnamed women embroiderers who have gone before will be part of a retrospective at the Festival of Quilts.

Also looking back, Julie Cockburn’s work combines retro photography with embroidered interventions, while Angela Knapp highlights the Red List birds of the Somerset Levels, which could be lost in her lifetime.

Fresh talent features US-based Kaylie Kaitschuck who imbues her work with considerable energy, while Instagrammer Megan Zaniewski surprises and delights in equal measure with thoroughly modern nature-inspired stumpwork.

We have all the regular features you love, from Embroidery Loves… to Take 5 books and Out and About, so we hope you enjoy the summer with Embroidery magazine.

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Amanda Cobbett began life as a designer but is now wowing a whole new audience with her hyperreal take on the natural world, in particular her machine embroidered 3D sculptures of fungi. This feature was written by Deena Beverley and published in the November/December 2019 issue

Ann Goddard was announced as winner of the inaugural Vlieseline Fine Art Textiles Award in 2019 and was interviewed by Jo Hall for the January/February 2020 issue.

Rozanne Hawksley found her métier whilst teaching at Goldsmiths in the 1970s. She developed a singular art practice that reflected upon the subjects of war, loss and the abuse of power. June Hill spoke to Hawksley as part of Embroidery’s ‘pioneer’ series, which examined the careers of leading embroiderers of the late 20th century.