Becca Birtles
I’ve enjoyed sewing since I was a small child learning from my Mum. I’ve explored many other crafts over the years, feeling the urge to constantly create but was always drawn back to stitch, first with dress making then bag-making. Having become very frustrated with commercial fabrics and wanting to make my work truly my own, I started developing my knowledge of various techniques and became obsessed with combining textile and mixed media art.
In 2016, I enrolled on Kim Thittichai’s Experimental Textiles course and spent the following few months trying out many different techniques and experimenting as much as I could. When the course came to an end, I didn’t want to stop learning and so enrolled firstly on to the Advanced Textiles course and then the Masterclass in Textiles course at The Windsor School of Textile Art. I’ve realised I will never stop learning and developing my style and I’m determined to enjoy every minute of it!
I find experimenting with fabric, stitch and mixed media fascinating and have used fruit net and cassette tape within some of my work. More recently, I have been exploring the use of metal and have taught myself to solder in order to look at ways I can use wire to create 3D structures.
