19th May 2022

'Textles - A Personal Journey' by Hayley Mills-Styles Textile Artist

Hayleys journey started aged 4 when her Grandmother taught her to knit, she moved on to embroidery teaching herself from the 'Anchor 100 stitches' book. Having always used hand embroidery she moved to digital embroidery for her Masters degree experimenting with the 12 needle machine to make a series of 'patches' from photos of the fabric on an old sofa.

 

 

 

 

Further exploration of the digital world led to the creation of a lacy cloth, she embroidered on Aquasol, which she then dissolved away to leave the final item.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hayley has also worked with ferrous metals, found items from beach combing like fishing nets, metal rings etc. She likes the colours and experiments with work on wool fabric,rings and use of fishing twine to create 3D pieces.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For her 10 years exhibition Hayley was artist in residence at Pannett Park a Museum in Whitby where she was inspired by natural history, fossils, skeletons eg Narwall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hayley works with various groups eg homeless, dementia those with mental health concerns etc, some of the work has been inspired by dance and also 52 pieces of embroidery including lungs etc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She makes pincushions which are small, easy to make and portable, stitchscapes which are semi abstract landscapes using scraps of fabric and stitch and embroidered portraits.