Catherine Hill Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

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Embroiderer and wordsmith, Catherine Hill is a multi-award-winning contemporary textile artist based in the UK. Her artistic vision is drawn from her childhood memories growing up in the English county of Lancashire in the 1970’s. Easily recognised for her creative use of hand embroidered text, she has been exhibited in the UK, USA, Germany, Switzerland, Brazil, Ukraine & Australia.

Hand embroidered text forms the foundation of all her work. Using cotton cloth, vintage Sylko threads and traditional embroidery techniques she documents memories, Lancashire's social history, and work reflecting wider societal interests. Catherine composes the narratives then stitches them. With each stitch she recreates the rhythm of her own handwriting. Her work has been published in Embroidery Magazine and Embroidering the Everyday: Found Stitch Paint by Cas Holmes.

'Sound of the Mill', 'Moors of home', Worker Bees' and 'First Day at the Mill' echo Catherine's interest in Lancashire dialect poetry.

She has a blog and YouTube called ‘Arnold’s Attic’ where she writes under the name of Katie. https://www.youtube.com/arnoldsattic