Introducing our Textile Creatives: Leona

Leona organises the Textile Creatives GC and runs the group’s social media accounts so she is often the first person that you may meet or contact. 

She developed an early love of textiles through watching her mother dressmaking, knitting and crocheting and was attracted by the touch and feel of her creations. Hand embroidery using some of her mother’s threads led to an intricate stitch sampler that became an acclaimed exhibition piece. An interest in silk painting progressed into making silk paper also used to craft unique jewellery.

Leona loves working with wool and silk to create wonderful wearable art that includes beautiful vests, shawls, scarves and neck cowls. Always attracted to texture, she relishes the surprise and uncertainty of how the felt moves and the challenges of working with this medium. Her impressive silk and wool felting skills result in very attractive garments. Felting is her passion.

Enjoying the “Serendipity of Creation”, Leona likes to use unexpected combinations of materials such as silk, wool and fabric fragments embellished with hand stitching and beads to create felted mosaics that are eye-catching.

She enjoys being a textile creative and values the friendship and the collaborative connections made within the group. 

Leona finds that through combining silk and felt into a mosaic that catches the play of light she is really in her ‘Happy Place’ that is most therapeutic.

She is currently building a collection of work to show for exhibition.