Embroidery sculpture

This is Laura Bell's portfolio website. My work is a combination of various media and incorporates painting, stitching and embroidery, cut paper, and sculptural elements.

Artist Ágnes Herczeg creates lace sculptures using traditional handiwork techniques and fuses the figures to real pieces of found wood.

We humans have the unique ability to take something ordinary and add a little extra to it. While this interest of ours has culminated in a myriad of decorative art forms, embroidery is one of those that we've invested most of our time and effort in.

Green frog stumpwork embroidery by Megan Zaniewski; Megan Zaniewski finds time for stitching most days. Inspired by the outdoors, she creates three dimensional stumpwork embroidery art.

Moscow-based fabric artist and designer Katerina Marchenko stitches brightly colored threads into tulle to form elaborate embroidered images of animals, portraits, and anatomical studies. In their hoops, Marchenko’s pieces work as framed thread paintings. Bird and angel wings appear to have dimension and human eyes pop thanks to the artist’s attention to color harmony andContinue reading "Graceful Figures and Shimmering Peacocks Embroidered on Tulle are Inspired by Haute Couture"

Yumi Okita's over-sized cloth moths are a delight. They bring to mind Mosura (Mothra), the giant fuzzy moth from the "Godzilla" films! I am also reminded of another unusual plush toy animal: years and years ago, my best friend/roommate and I went to visit the then-new Monterey Bay Aquarium here in Northern California. In the gift shop, they had racks and racks of all the expected stuffed animals, all the cute and cuddly ones like otters, pelicans, seals, dolphins, even whales. And then she…