An association of Cornwall's finest craft makers

Spooner, Sue
Textiles

My work as a textile artist is a response to experience and memory.

I have always been motivated by sensations experienced in particular places - seeing an arrangement of patterns or colours in the landscape, the intricate textures of plant forms, or feeling the emotion engendered by man-made structures, witnesses to struggle or effort of will.

I am drawn to translate this source material into textiles because I love the manipulation of yarns and thread and the investigation of colour and surface. The making of woven tapestry is an absorbing building process - balancing an awareness of control of the structure as the weaving progresses, with the excitement generated when surprising accidental effects result.

The range of work I produce varies from small, finely detailed woven and stitched pieces to large heavier-weight hangings, panels and rugs.