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Elizabeth Loveday

Battery Rocks
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Battery Rocks

hand dyed silk and applique
62 x 44cm
Beasty
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Beasty

oil on board (unframed)
26 x 24cm
Daisies
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Daisies

handstitched embroidery on reclaimed fabric
24 x 23cm
Embroidery Portraits
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Embroidery Portraits

embroidery
20 x 20cm & 25 x 25cm
£125 & £145
Evening Greens

Evening Greens

reclaimed fabric and hand stitching
44 x 32cm
£595
Fire Dance

Fire Dance

reclaimed fabric and hand stitching
44 x 32cm
£595
Gorse
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Gorse

handstitched embroidery on reclaimed fabric
24 x 23cm
Gull Attitude
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Gull Attitude

oil on board (unframed)
26 x 24cm
Lighthouse II
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Lighthouse II

oil on board (unframed)
26 x 24cm
Lost in the Shallows
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Lost in the Shallows

hand dyed silk and applique
62 x 44cm
Men-An-Tol
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Men-An-Tol

handstitched embroidery on reclaimed fabric
39 x 52cm
Nettles
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Nettles

handstitched embroidery on reclaimed fabric
24 x 23cm
Obby Oss
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Obby Oss

oil on board (unframed)
26 x 24cm
Oss shadows & shallow tides

Oss shadows & shallow tides

reclaimed fabric and hand stitching
61 x 44cm
£895
Ostara Sun

Ostara Sun

reclaimed fabric and hand stitching
44 x 32cm
£595
Pick Me Up
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Pick Me Up

embroidery & mixed media
56 x 40cm
Pressure
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Pressure

handstitched embroidery on reclaimed fabric
23 x 23cm
Seal Head
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Seal Head

oil on board (unframed)
26 x 24cm
Segment
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Segment

handstitched embroidery on reclaimed fabric
20 x 20cm
Selkie and the Harbour Girl
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Selkie and the Harbour Girl

handstitched embroidery on reclaimed fabric
49 x 38cm
Slips Through her Fingers
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Slips Through her Fingers

handstitched embroidery on reclaimed fabric
23 x 23cm
Spring is that Way

Spring is that Way

reclaimed fabric and hand stitching
44 x 32cm
£595
Sun Sisters

Sun Sisters

reclaimed fabric and hand stitching
61 x 44cm
£950
Tregeseal Maid I

Tregeseal Maid I

oil on reclaimed wood
24 x 19cm
£490
Tregeseal Maid II
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Tregeseal Maid II

oil on reclaimed wood
24 x 19cm
Tregeseal Maid III
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Tregeseal Maid III

oil on reclaimed wood
24 x 19cm
Tregeseal Maid IV
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Tregeseal Maid IV

oil on reclaimed wood
24 x 19cm
Wasp
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Wasp

handstitched embroidery on reclaimed fabric
20 x 20cm
Winter Waning

Winter Waning

reclaimed fabric and hand stitching
44 x 32cm
£595

“I am a textile artist and painter from Cornwall who uses stitch and layering to make illustrative and decorative work, incorporating existing features and alterations on used, vintage and recycled materials. I Purposefully bruise, unstitch and stain making my work have a seemingly incomplete quality. My technique is mostly appliqué with old fabrics of different weights, stitched predominately by hand with some machine embroidery when necessary. I enjoy the inherent history of the material often finding connections between subject matter and material. My subject matter is primarily portraits and narratives and characters within folklore. Magic realism in fabric. There is also something a little dark about my imagery, unclothed figures, stains and mad looking animals give my work an edge.”

Born in Truro, Cornwall in 1990, both of Elizabeth’s parents and grandmother were craftsmen and artists, and Elizabeth was inspired from a very young age and dreamt of doing the same. Studying Art, Textiles, History of Art and Music at Truro College, Elizabeth went to University College Falmouth to do her art foundation where she soon realised that fabric and all its qualities fascinated her. She subsequently spent a year at Goldsmiths College, London studying Fine Art and then three years studying Illustration at UWE, Bristol, graduating with a first class BA Hons in 2013. She now works in a small studio in West Cornwall.

Selected Exhibitions: Degree Show, Bower Ashton, Bristol 2013. New Graduate show, The old brewery, Brick lane, London 2013. D&AD New Blood, Spitalfields, London 2013. Drawing a Presence, Newlyn art Gallery, Cornwall 2014. The Contemporary Craft Festival Bovey Tracey 2014. The Collaborators, The Exchange Gallery, Cornwall 2014. Get Fresh exhibition, The Devon Guild of Craftsmen Devon 2015.  Circa 21 Winter Feast 2015. Bovey Tracey Contemporary craft fair 2016.  Newlyn Art gallery 2017. Cornwall Contemporary, Mixed Shows 2017 – present day

Publications: Selvage magazine four page spread in the November issue. 2015 Little thing Magazine Six page spread in the November issue. 2015 Sew magazine article in the January issue. 2016 Embroidery magazine. 2016

Cornwall Contemporary

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