rosemary watts

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profile

I discovered creative stitchery when I took my young daughter to an embroidery course intended for children.  I eventually joined a City and Guilds course at the London College of Fashion, where I spent six very enjoyable and exciting years.

I enjoy dyeing fabrics to achieve the colours I want.  I have recently experimented with printmaking and have used lino-prints and collagraph prints in my work.  I also use block printing to add pattern to the dyed fabric.

Towards the end of 1996 I joined the Phoenix Contemporary Textile Group and have enjoyed the stimulation of working with like-minded people.

For over ten years I ran the Enfield Young Embroiderers’ Group and have recently taken over the chairmanship of the branch.

qualifications

City & Guilds – Creative Embroidery Parts 1 &2 – London College of Fashion

membership

Embroiderers' Guild (Enfield Branch)
Phoenix Contemporary Textile Group (PCTG)
‘4 x 4’ Group

exhibitions

2009.......... ‘Concrete, Steel, Cloth’, PCTG – Robert Phillips Gallery, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey
2005/8....... ‘4 x 4’ – Menier Gallery, London
2007.......... ‘Women by Women’, PCTG – Robert Phillips Gallery, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey
2003.......... ‘Fragments’, PCTG – Kingston Museum Art Gallery, Surrey
2002.......... ‘4 x 4’ (touring) – Mall Galleries, London / Knitting & Stitching Show, London & Harrogate / Madeira Show, Harrogate
2000.......... ‘Structures & Constructions’, PCTG – Kingston Museum Art Gallery, Surrey
1998.......... ‘Journeys’, PCTG – Kingston Museum Art Gallery, Surrey / Muni Arts Centre, Wales
1989.......... London College of Fashion – London

Exhibits with Enfield Branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild and with Enfield Art Circle.

published work

‘Embroidered Flowers’ by Pamela Watts

commissions

Commission for an Heraldic Cloth - Bishop Stopford School, Enfield

contact

Email:   rosemarywatts@waitrose.com