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Sylvia Naylor
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Sylvia Naylor combines her love of the natural world and her sense of design as a fibre artist to create a tiny universe of threads as deft as a painter's brush. Her landscapes are inspired from sketches, observations and photographs taken from her
enjoyment of the outdoors while walking, cycling, canoeing and gardening.
The ideas she gathers are then roughly sketched on paper, or a paper collage. "I never draw on the fabric because that would mean that I would have to keep to the drawn
line. I prefer my work to evolve."
The fabric is dyed and/or painted before any thread touches the fabric. Different types of fabrics are used depending on what types of effects she wants to obtain, such as silk, cotton or
polycotton.
Before starting the free machine embroidery, the feed dogs are lowered and the foot is removed so that the fabric can no longer be moved by the machine. The background fabric is stretched in an embroidery hoop, which enables the
work to move in any direction, this freedom of movement requires great control. The intensely coloured, exquisite renderings of nature are obtained by using a large palette of threads. These are constantly being changed both through the needle and the
bobbin. The stitch tension is also frequently manipulated in order to make loopy, textured stitches. Embellishment with hand embroidery sometimes completes the artwork.
Free motion machine embroidery can be compared to drawing, where a pencil
is held in one position while the paper is moved.
Free motion machine embroidery is an art form that is based on techniques developed in Britain in the 1920's. At that time women in Singer workshops would work at sewing machines with fabric in
embroidery hoops and very precisely make motifs for clothing, and ecclesiastical regalia.
Sylvia Naylor began developing her art form in 1979 when she returned to school in England to study concurrently Textiles and Embroidery, City & Guilds.
In 1983 she received the Silver medal for embroidery awarded to the highest ranking student in the UK by City and Guilds of London.
Since 1983 she was worked full time at her art. She has exhibited in many juried and invitational shows
receiving the Embroidery Award in Ontario Crafts 89, Best Fibreart Award at the Toronto Outdoor Show in 1990, and in 1996 Quilt Canada's Award of Excellence in Wearable art.
Sylvia shares her creativity and knowledge on free motion machine
embroidery by teaching courses throughout Canada. Students develop their own skills and knowledge by learning how machine embroidery can be used with other surface design techniques.
Sylvia has lectured extensively on free motion machine
embroidery as well as on historical textiles especially bags and purses.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
"Making art is an essential part of me. I love the challenge of expressing the world around me with dye, paint and stitch. I find inspiration for my
artwork everywhere but my love of the natural world predominates. In the winter I ski and snow shoe and in warmer weather I hike, paddle my canoe and work in my garden. It is on these outing that I make drawings and notes as well as spending much time
observing. Photographs also add to my visual memories.
In the cities I find inspiration in neglected and ruined buildings revealing fragments of previous histories. In the studio my thoughts and ideas take form through experimentation. When I
am ready to begin a piece of work I work out my ideas in a sketch book or in a paper collage. I often dye my background fabrics before adding paints. All of my work uses free motion machine embroidery.
I often manipulate the stitch tension to
make loopy stitches. Sometimes embellished papers and hand embroidery will be part of the work. I am sometimes asked why I don’t paint instead of stitching. The answer is that I have always loved working with fabrics and threads since my school days in
England. I love the feel of fibres, their textures, versatility and challenges.
I hope that though my eyes people will look more closely at the natural world appreciate its beauty and therefore do their best to protect it."
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Sylvia Naylor
Awards
CQA "Award of Excellence" for Wearable Art
Best Fibre Art Award, Toronto Outdoor Art Show
Mary Diamond Butt's Award for Ontario Crafts
Silver Medal for top student in City and Guilds Award
Merchant Taylor Award, City and Guilds of London Institute
Ontario Craft Council Grant
Ontario Arts Council Project Grant
Exhibitions
"Art Blooms", Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
Cornerstone Gallery, Kingston, ON
Frogtown Gallery, Wisconsin, USA
The Feminine Mystique, Arizona, USA
Crafthouse, Vancouver, BC
Sable V Fine Art Gallery, Wimberly, TX
Dynamic Demo Day, Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
The Framing Place and Gallery, Huntsville, ON
Synthesis, juried show, SAQA Canada
Threadworks, juried, traveling in Ontario
Kindred Spaces Textiles Showcase, juried, presented by Tourism PEI
Kingston Fibre Artists, Kingston, Guelph and Belleville, ON
Quilting Arts, juried, Portland, OR, Chicago, IL, Houston, TX
Ontario Crafts 07, juried, OCC
Threadworks, juried, traveling in Ontario
Hand & Spirit, juried, Eliot Lake, ON
Algonquin Arts Centre, juried, Algonquin Park, ON
Show of Hands Gallery, juried, Toronto, ON
Invitational Group Show, Harbinger Gallery, Waterloo, ON
Dynamic Demo Day, Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
"Passages", Rails End Gallery, Haliburton, ON
Mayor's Clebration of the Arts, juried, Cambridge, ON
"Eye Dazzlers", Handweavers Guild of America, international juried, Albuquerque, NM
"Common Thread", international juried, Oakville, ON
"Oh Canada", juried, International Quilt Market, Houston, TX
"Oh Canada", juried, International Quilt Festival, Long Beach, CA
"Synthesis" juried SASQ Canada, Cumberland Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Kingston Fibre Artists, Kingston, Guelph, and Belleville, ON
Quilt Canada, juried, Newfoundland
Canada House Gallery, Banff, AB
Quilt Canada, juried, Vancouver, BC
Art Gallery of Mississauga, juried, Missisauga, ON
Quilt Canada, juried, Saskatoon, SK
"Artistry on Cloth", OCC, Toronto, ON
Rails End Gallery, Haliburton, ON
Creative Sewing and Needlework, Toronto, ON
Fibre Fireworks, juried, London, ON
Ontario Crafts '89, treveling exhibition
National Miniature Art Exhibition, Roth Gallery, London, ON
Quilts-Art-Quilts, juried, Schweinfurth Art Centre, Auburn, NY
Annual Miniature Art Exhibition, juried, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, ON
Homer Watson Gallery, Kingston, ON
Belleville Quilt Show, juried, Belleville, ON
Baas Gallery, Toronto, ON
Publications
Quilting Art Calendar for year 2009
Quliting Arts
Inspriation, Bernina Magazine, Switzerland
Beyond the Horizon by Valeria Hearder
Bernina Calendar
Profile Magazine, Kinston, ON
Bernina Magazine, Switzerland
Teaching
Canadian Embroiderer's Guild, London, ON
Summer School, Haliburton, ON
Thousand Island Summer School of the Arts, Brockville, ON
Quilt Conference, Edmonton, AB
Quilt Canada, Saskatoon, SK
Bernina University, ON
Rouge Valley Quilters
Fibreworks Weekend, St. Lawrence College, Kingston, ON
Lecturer, Prescott Quilters Guild
Lecturer, Limestone Quilters Guild
Lecturer, Kingston Quilters and Weavers
Lecturer, Belleville Spinners and Weavers
Summer School of the Arts, Haliburton, ON
Tallahassee, FL
Summer School, Algonquin College, Ottawa, ON
St Clair College, Windsor, ON
Algonquin College, Haliburton, ON
Workshops for several groups in Ontario
Algonquin College, Ottawa, ON
St Lawrence College, Kingston, ON
Fibreworks, Kingston, ON
Thousand Islands Summer School of the Arts, Brockville, ON
York Heritage Quilters, Toronto, ON
Fibreworks Weekend, St Lawrence College, Kingston, ON
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