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Katy Cocklin
Artwork for Katy Cocklin
Details
How would you describe the work you do and why?
I love exploring different textiles and mediums, learning about and discovering new techniques then combining them to create stand alone artworks, 3D vessels, cards and useable textile pieces such as bags and pouches & jewellery. I enjoy creating and playing for my own joy and well being. When my hands are at work my mind settles and becomes absorbed in the task. My work is predominantly nature based in colour, texture and in using natural found treasures. I love that textiles hold and carry stories within them and aim to rework fabrics and mixed media into my pieces to continue those stories and invoke others. I take photos of my walks and will often use the images as the colour palette to create an abstract piece, or use a combination of photographs to produce a more recognisable landscape work.
For you what does being an artist mean?:
Exploring, learning, creating and experimenting with textiles, print and natural treasures. Looking at the relationship between what we see and absorb and how this can be translated into textile pieces.
Describe what you call yourself/your practice?:
Textile & Mixed Media Art
Your practice & activities include e.g workshops, teaching:
Using reclaimed and vintage fabrics or scrap 'waste' fabric to create new pieces of textile to work with. Solar dying with plants, creating my own dyes and paint from plants. Gelli printing and mixed media, photography, slow and machine stitch.
I regularly run workshops teaching various techniques and approaches. I run educational workshops in schools and teach others how to sew.
Exhibitions in the last 3 years:
In Her Time - Malvern 2026
Worcester 100 - Worcester 2026
Colours Exhibition - Malvern 2026
Your gallery outlets/stockists:
Oil and Oak - Hay-On-Wye
Studio 4 at The Fold