Pauline Thomas - Exhibitor

As a youngster, creativity was always encouraged as a means to achieve both skills and fulfil practical needs. Choosing a single direction to study after an Art Foundation course was difficult. A degree in 3 Dimensional Design specialising in Ceramics at Loughborough College of Art & Design set her on a path interested in production techniques, the repetitions of which would improve her skills and designs in order to sustain a living.

An embroidered brooch project developed her Thread Painting® onto silk, where her sewing machine needle draws as her pencil.

Inspiration is found in the natural world, the English landscape, historical motifs and fashion. Sketching, drawing, sewing with the use of modern technology, commissions and necessities of life keep up the evolution of ideas.