Victoria Potrovitza is a contemporary abstract fiber artist who lives and works in Lancaster, California.

She received a MS Degree in Architecture from UAUIM, Bucharest, Romania. Soon after graduation, her career shifted towards textile arts. The abstract feel of architectural compositions continued to influence her work.

A significant part of her career was dedicated to wearable art using hand dyed fabric and a variety of surface design treatments, bearing mostly geometric patterns.

In the last decade, she transcended from hand painted silk wearable art making to hand embroidered canvases. Her compositions are abstract, modern, geometric, with an architectural feel.

Christine Chester is a textile artist working in mixed media, creating work to exhibit as well as developing fabrics and quilts as couture interior design textiles.

Since graduating with Distinction in her Masters degree in 2015 Christine has become an active member of both Quilt Art and unFOLD art groups.

In this interview, Christine gives us an in-depth look at the processes and techniques she uses to create her art and she tells us how her Dad’s dementia has inspired a body of work focussing on memory.

Christine Chester, Palimpsest, 2015, 72 x 64

Kate Anderson, formally trained as a painter, began knotting in 1996 after a workshop with noted textile artist Jane Sauer.

Kate’s knotted objects often reference the work of images from the pop era and mid century cultural icons. Her work can be found in numerous collections including the Philadelphia Art Museum, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Racine Art Museum, and Muskegon Art Museum.

Over the past 36 years, she has had extensive professional experience as a gallery director, curator, juror, panelist and workshop leader.

In this interview, Kate talks about her transition from painter to textile artist and we learn why knotting is her technique of choice. We also discover where she finds inspiration to create her astonishingly unique knotted teapots.

Merill Comeau is a mixed media artist creating installations, murals and garments examining narratives of repair and regeneration.

In addition to drawing and painting, Comeau deconstructs, reconstructs, and alters clothing and linens to disrupt, reorder, and build stories exploring common human concerns. Her use of repurposed materials evidences her concerns of environmental sustainability and the inequitable use of resources.

In this interview, Merill reveals how an adolescence spent kicking against convention soon led her in to the traditional female arena of sewing. And we learn how she expresses her views though stitch and mixed media to create her remarkable sculpture installations and fabric recycled clothing pieces.

Merill Comeau, Ladies of Weir Farm, 84w x 60h. Photo Susan Bryne

Adam Pritchett is a hand embroidery artist based in the Lake District, England.

His work is focused around mystical, botanical, and entomological themes, mixing traditional hand embroidery techniques with contemporary subjects, and hand dyed textiles.

Adam has exhibited in a number of gallery shows in the US, and UK, and appeared on 2016’s episode of Kirstie Allsopp’s Handmade Christmas.

In this interview, part of our From conception to creation series, Adam tells us how a prompt from a US gallery set his imagination whirring and his creative fingers to work. He talks us through the process of making, where he sources his materials and the techniques which enabled him to create this beautifully detailed piece.