CQ West: Unfolding Stories 4

- ANGELA KNAPP
www.angelaknapp.co.uk
This work is based on the birds of the Somerset Levels
and aims to illustrate the beauty and fragility of their
world and their battles for survival.
So many birds are under threat due to the
increasing human impact on the planet. I will sadly
never run out of threatened birds to base work on.
I absolutely love the process of creating these
pieces; the story of each bird draws me in and
consumes me for a time. The journey is continuous as
each piece teaches me something new or gives me
inspiration for the next project
I create these pieces after much research, layering
and painting fabrics and then, using a sewing
machine, ‘paint’ the details with thread a technique
called free-motion embroidery.