I am very much inspired by the landscape around me where I live in South West Scotland and I aim to capture the mood of being here. My most recent work that is about change: the movement of the tide, the textures and colours of water, mud, rocks and sand. The area where I live is known for it’s light, and I love the recording it’s changing effects on the landscape, which are never the same twice. My work is made by combining fabrics and papers, adding colour to these with paints and dyes and then stitching with my sewing machine. These collaged layered backgrounds often include found papers, such as old document or maps, and natural fibres. With free machine work I can move in any direction to draw with stitch, adding details and textures, often working quickly to develop rhythm in the marks.
I was born in Worcestershire and lived in North Wales for over 20 years. I moved to Dumfries and Galloway in 2016. I previously worked for the NHS as a Learning Disability Nurse alongside my textile work, then became a full time textile artist in around 2012.
'Light and Movement 1' Mixed media: fabric, paper, paints and dyes with free machine embroidery 28cm x 28cm £350 (mounted and framed)
'Light and Movement 2'
Mixed media: fabric, paper, paints and dyes with free machine embroidery 28cm x 28cm
£350 (mounted and framed)
'Light and Water' Mixed media: fabric, paper, paints and dyes with free machine embroidery 39cm x 24cm £390 (mounted and framed)
Alison Corfield. Channels 2 Mixed media: fabric, paper, paints and dyes with free machine embroidery 35 cm x 19.5 cm £350 (mounted and framed)
Alison Corfield. Channels 3 Mixed media: fabric, paper, paints and dyes with free machine embroidery 35 cm x 19.5 cm £350 (mounted and framed)
Over the Rocks Mixed media: fabric, paper, paints and dyes with free machine embroidery 33 cm x 15 cm £250 (mounted and framed)
Dark Waters Mixed media work, fabric, paper, paints and dyes with free machine embroidery 22.5cm w 16.5cm £175