Catherine Bailey

my creations begin with the seed of an idea. I draw and then move onto selecting the fabrics and threads, scrutinising layout and colour, rejecting and changing, developing and refining, until I meet with completion and contentment. ​I’m Catherine, a Welsh textile artist, living and working from my studio in North Wales, surrounded by beautiful countryside. The creative process is very fluid, and that is what makes it exciting. I enjoy allowing the working process of developing a piece, to also inform the outcome, rejecting notions of beginning with a perfect idea of an end result in mind. It then allows me greater flexibility to change and refine and be in the moment. ​I also create smaller applique pieces are often more predictable, and I regularly portray bucolic landscapes, coastal and nautical, flora and fauna.