Chloe Redfern’s embroideries appeal to both children and adults. With flora and fauna – specifically wildflowers and birds — taking center stage throughout her embroideries, her work invites nature homeward.
Based in Birmingham, Redfern ties her love of nature to her childhood. “When I was growing up we had a caravan in Wales and I loved the wildness of the landscape,” she told Ballpitmag. “I think going there instilled in me a great love for nature and the outdoors.” After completing an art foundation course in college, she worked with mixed media textile and paper collage before moving on to hand embroidery in 2015.
“I love the fact that it takes quite a long time to stitch a piece, so it is quite a meditative process,” she says, “and I find all of the materials really pleasing; the colorful threads, beads, lovely natural colored fabric (natural calico is my fabric of choice) and the wooden hoops.”
Indeed, hand crafting and embroidering are an easy recipe for mindfulness, and Redfern herself provides downloadable embroidery patterns on her Etsy shop, alongside a small selection of embroidered hoop art. “One of the things I find most rewarding about creating embroidery patterns is the thought that they are hopefully bringing enjoyment to people,” she says, “so I would like to keep creating new patterns, as well as working on new original pieces to further explore my favorite subject matter.”
You might just be inspired to take on embroidery yourself!