Judith Isaac-Lewis
St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
Judith’s creative practice explores her attachment to significant places in her life. Personal and collective memories linked to her South Wales heritage are of particular interest. Inspiration also comes from her immediate environment, especially her garden and the local area where she now lives in Hertfordshire.
Her present concern aims to create a sense of place in her practice directly connecting the work to the surroundings. To do this she is embracing materials that are found on her doorstep to create natural dyes and botanical contact prints. Through this use of natural and found materials she is aiming to work more sustainably reducing her impact on the environment.
Hand embroidery is a core part of her artistic vocabulary. She is interested in the way hand stitch improves wellbeing and how its rhythmical qualities have relaxing and mindful benefits. her embroidered work often evolves in an unplanned way, she responds to shapes and textures, unpicking and rethinking until the work feels right. She also loves the itinerant nature of hand stitch and its ability to travel with her from place to place.
Photographs: by the artist