Yumiko Reynolds MSDC
Stitched & Constructed Textiles
A sewing machine is Yumiko’s favourite drawing and painting tool. Yumiko is constantly pushing the boundaries of stitching, drawing and painting in order to create a new kind of art form “Stitch Drawing” with fibre, thread, paper and pigment. As an artist/maker, Yumiko creates figurative images with textured surface and colour.
Yumiko’s journey as an artist /maker started after the completion of the course of the Diploma in H.E. Stitched Textiles with a background of a City & Guild course in Embroidery and life drawings and paintings. With her passion to create figurative images with her own unique art form, she is continuously studying various drawing and painting methods in graphite charcoal, & oil as parallel to her discipline in textiles.
For her stitch drawings & paintings, she uses various techniques such as surface manipulation (scratching and tearing), painting with inks and paints and applying free machine zigzag and straight stitching. She normally uses 9 tonal values of threads (white, grey and black) on the layers of paper and applies acrylic ink and paint.
Recent Exhibitions
2018
Hand of the Maker, Designer Crafts at Chelsea 2018, Society of Designer Craftsmen Chelsea College of Art The Makers’ Art 2018, North Surrey Group of Society of Designer Craftsmen The Lightbox Art Fund Gallery, Surrey
Transient, Prism Textiles Hoxton Arches Gallery, London
2017
The Makers’ Art 2017, North Surrey Group of Society of Designer Craftsmen Cranleigh Arts Centre, Surrey Another View, Prism Textiles The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Gallery, Birmingham
Colour, HapticArt The Robert Phillips Gallery, Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey
2016
Agenda, Prism Textiles sponsored by Hiscox for the International Supper Club Hiscox Art Cafe, London The Makers’ Art 2016, North Surrey Group of Society of Designer Craftsmen Guildford House Museum, Surrey Designer Craftsmen at the Mall 2016, Society of Designer Craftsmen The Mall Galleries, London
2010-2013
Afghanistan Inspiration UK and European tour (http://oneearthtextiles.co.uk) Solo Hiroshima Triptych, the Sunbury Embroidery Gallery, Oct 2009
Publications/Press
Patchwork Professional, October 2014 Interview- www.textileartist.org March 2014 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine Yearbook 2014, HT Art Magazine Publishing 2014 1000 Artisan Textile, Quarry Books May 2010 Stitch issue No 63 (Afghanistan Inspiration), Feb/Mar 2010 Magstitch (Magi Blog; Wet Windsor Wondering), 20/06/2007 Embroiderers’ Guilds Enfield & District Branch Newsletter October 2012
Membership
Society of Designer Craftsmen (MSDC)
North Surrey Group of Society of Designer Craftsmen
Prism Textile
Education
Access to HE Diploma, Multimedia Technology, (distinction) Richmond Adult Community College 2011
Diploma in HE Stitched Textile, East Berkshire College/Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College 2007
MA in Museum Studies, University of London, Institute of Archaeology 1987
MA in History of Art, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan 1986
BA in Aesthetics, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan 1983
-
Anne is a mixed media textile artist based in Devon. Focusing on forgotten histories and concealed narratives she utilizes found objects,...
View profile -
Pippa's work is abstract, influenced by architectural and organic forms. Working in both 2D and 3D, she considers space, light and shadows,...
View profile -
Beverly Ayling-Smith is a textile artist and researcher. Her studio practice examines how cloth can connect with the emotions of the viewer
View profile -
Free machine embroidered and appliqued images which exploit the exciting surface qualities of fabric and an economical use of line.
View profile -
Helen Banzhaf has been making her machine embroideries since the 1990's. Her textile practice went hand-in-hand with her fashion lecturing...
View profile -
Jan is a textile artist fascinated by all forms of landscape. She creates compositions that are a synthesis of observational impressions
View profile -
Vivienne is a textile artist specialising in machine embroidery. Her soulful work is figurative and the narrative of her textile imagery...
View profile -
Naomi is a textile and mixed media artist looking at the sunny side of life. Her childhood in 1960’s and 70’s Devon and Cornwall has...
View profile -
Anita creates one off pieces using a variety of painted papers which are embellished with stitch. Inspired by skies, particularly at...
View profile -
Contemporary Needle Felt Artist using the wool from her wool only flock of rare breed sheep.
View profile -
Helen's work is about absence. She explores whether an intangible echo, a sensation, remains of a being that was once there, disturbing the...
View profile -
Angela Dewar is an experienced designer and embroiderer, working with a range of techniques and in many different environments.
View profile -
Wendy is a textile artist inspired by landscapes, architecture and natural forms. Maps give a 'sense of place' in her designs. She...
View profile -
Judy is a textile artist whose passion for making things has been influenced by her love of history. Her research into the structures of...
View profile -
Alex makes mixed media work, and also figurative pieces, usually inspired by water, frequently from images of her native Scotland.
View profile -
Geraldine is a textile artist who works in a range of techniques, including hand and machine stitch, wrapping and tapestry weaving. The...
View profile -
Jill is a textile and multimedia artist and is never happier than playing with different mediums; from paints to woven materials. Using...
View profile -
Louise is a textile artist creating artwork that narrates hidden stories and memories, protecting and honouring them through stitch. She is...
View profile -
Mary is a stitched textile and mixed media artist. She explores the distorted imagery that is created by moving water or is reflected on...
View profile -
Wendy’s textile art explores the textures, moods, and quiet rhythms of North Devon’s fragile landscapes. Guided by intuition and a deep...
View profile -
With a lifelong passion for cloth and stitch, Julie was awarded a BA Honours Degree in Embroidered Textiles in 2010. As a result of her...
View profile -
Sam makes sculptures, drawings and collages, predominantly by stitching and manipulating mixed media.
View profile -
Catherine harnesses the use of hand embroidered text to bring to life memories of her childhood, adult life and Lancashire's social history.
View profile -
Ellie is a textile mixed media artist, drawing inspiration from nature and botanicals she finds when out walking. Her textile paintings...
View profile -
Susan Holton is a designer-knitter who loves to create beautiful, unique, contemporary knitwear for women of all ages. She explores stitch,...
View profile -
The key themes of Pat's life have been exploring creativity in textiles, and to expand her knowledge of textile processes, with a...
View profile -
Rosemary is a mixed media artist working mostly with textiles. She uses recycled materials such as plastic bags, wires from machinery,...
View profile -
Sandra is a designer-maker working with textiles and mixed media. She works from personal observations recorded at home and abroad...
View profile -
Aran work focuses on portraiture and depiction of human subjects in textiles. Her work is concerned mostly with visual narrative
View profile -
Linda Pearl Izan is a textiles/mixed media practitioner based in the United Kingdom; her work is exhibited nationally and internationally...
View profile -
Established textile artist Jacqueline James specialises in making exclusively designed hand dyed and woven rugs for distinctive interiors.
View profile -
Marian Jazmik is a contemporary textile artist who is also a keen photographer. Her work is heavily inspired by her macro photography of...
View profile -
Sabine is a mixed-media textile artist working in hand stitch. Exploring narratives and memories generated by socio-political issues,...
View profile -
“Alice Kettle is a contemporary textile/fibre artist based in the UK. She has established a unique area of practice by her use of a craft...
View profile -
Sue Lancaster is known as a textile artist working in machine embroidery but her work starts well in advance of the production in stitch....
View profile -
Jean’s multi-media approach combines fabric, print and stitch marks, and allows the interplay of layers that hint at complexity. Jean is...
View profile -
Dan creates bespoke art for the public realm and private clients. She first became known for her Knitted Chandeliers which sold...
View profile -
Diana is a textile artist working in free motion embroidery. Diana focuses on light and the way it changes the landscape from season to...
View profile -
Sylvie uses mixed media and free-motion machine stitching to create ethereal sculptures and highly textural vistas, a translation of how...
View profile -
David Morrish is a contemporary embroidery artist and fashion academic whose award-winning work merges digital technology with traditional...
View profile -
Mixed Media artist and free-form embroiderer Jatz creates distinctive textiles and coats by combining wool with unconventional materials.
View profile -
Carol is a textile artist specialising in machine embroidery. She creates unique one off pieces for public and private venues.
View profile -
Jane’s background is in interior design and soft furnishings having worked as a designer as well as a teacher. More recently her academic...
View profile -
Liz creates extraordinary, intuitive and meaningful hand embroidery, which is highly textured and colourful. She uses the art of hand...
View profile -
Yvette is a textile and embroidery artist based in Oxfordshire. Vintage fabrics are central to her practice, not just for their...
View profile -
Liz is a designer maker, specialising in feltmaking. Focusing on traditional feltmaking techniques her work combines art with a love for...
View profile -
Based in her home studio in rural Suffolk, Elisabeth makes stitched textiles for exhibitions, and to commission.
View profile -
Deborah is a Textile Artist whose work has a style of delicacy and neatness. Her current work is an exploration based on giving familiar...
View profile -
Angela is a stitcher and felt maker. She discovered a love of felt making whilst studying for her Diploma in Stitched Textiles at Windsor....
View profile -
Ksenia Semirova blends tradition with modern ideas, using embroidery to explore cultural heritage, storytelling and contemporary expression
View profile -
Arlene is a textile artist and teacher of many years' experience. Much of her work is inspired by her love of roses and music. This stems...
View profile -
Consuelo Simpson is a multi-disciplinary artist working in 2 and 3D, often using craft techniques. There is a somatic and mental engagement...
View profile -
Chris is a textile artist specialising in hand embroidery. Inspired primarily by the natural world she works within the sphere of the...
View profile -
Designer/maker of wall panels, hangings, pictures, carpets, screens, altar frontals and greeting cards. Work is mainly to commission and...
View profile -
Sue Stone is best known for figurative compositions with an emphasis on narrative hand embroidery and is an experienced teacher and speaker.
View profile -
Tiziana Tateo is an Italian fiber artist who, after starting out making quilts about twenty years ago, began research work and personal...
View profile -
Dawn's work explores transparency and illusion, the imagined or reality and perception of the occupation of time and space. Within Dawn's...
View profile -
Janet Twinn originally studied painting but became seduced by textiles. She makes patchwork wallhangings from her own dyed, painted and...
View profile -
Haf Weighton is known for her distinctive portrayals of architecture. Currently supported by a Create Grant from the Arts Council of...
View profile -
Susannah Weiland is a contemporary hand embroidery artist based in Richmond upon Thames, working across figurative and abstract approaches....
View profile -
Stephanie is a textile Designer Maker working with a mix of materials and processes.
View profile