Siân Martin has been a maker of textile art since she graduated from Birmingham Polytechnic with a BA Hons and MA in Embroidery. She exhibits with the '62 Group of Textile Artists', www.62group.freeuk.com, as well as the 'Practical Study Group'.

Siân is currently exploring digital prints and computerised stitchery within her mixed media relief textiles. The sculptural forms of egg shells, the texture of broken shell fragments and their associated connections with food source, folklore and childbirth have been sources of recent interest.

Free-Range
Half a dozen free-range eggs in 3D silk organza shapes.
Closer view

With Child 2
A digital foetal scan of the newest addition to the family is surrounded and protected by egg shell fragments.
Closer view

Siân gained her Art Teachers Diploma from the University of Leicester after graduating from Birmingham and enjoys teaching and encouraging others to experiment and explore their ideas through textiles. She runs workshops and lectures to many Embroiderers' Guild Branches and Textile Groups both in this country and abroad.

Siân Martin teaches part time as embroidery specialist on the Fashion and Textiles degree courses at Somerset College of Art and Technology. Siân also teaches City and Guilds Design and Embroidery at Urchfont Manor College, Wiltshire and has set up 'Distant Stitch', a method of learning the same course by correspondence. Anyone interested in further information should visit her web site www.distantstitch.co.uk.

Siân is tutor of the 'Stitch Textile Artists' Masterclass at Urchfont Manor, Wiltshire.

Sian Martin