Caroline Hyde-Brown: Delicate, Japanese-inspired embroidery art

Caroline Hyde-Brown’s fragile and beautiful texile art highlights the detailed craftsmanship of embroidery.

Her work uses a mixture of media materials, but with embroidery as the focus. She produces delicately constructed trees and sews in dried flowers. Her work draws upon nature, reflective light and the seasons. She aims for sustainability, creating artworks using natural dyes, papers and materials.

She trained in Fashion Design, gaining a BTEC in 1992, then completed a BA in Textile Design in Nottingham. She has been a freelance textile artist for over twenty years and has exhibited in the UK and overseas, most notably in Japan.

Teaching and travelling have always been an integral part of her work. Caroline finds great inspiration from the people she teaches and countries she has visited, including Japan, America, Morocco, the Caribbean, France and Greece. In 2002 she was selected to travel and work across the East and West coast of Japan, exhibiting her work alongside the Princess Diana Althorp Collection, as part of a British Craft promotional tour.