H. Richards & Co.
Contemporary Textiles and Quilts
Helen Richards is a Bendigo-based textile artist. She is inspired by the Australian landscape, and through her work, she endeavours to reflect this land's beauty, strength and fragility.
In her practice, she draws on textile and craft traditions with the eye of a contemporary artist. She combines natural materials, hand-printed fabrics, and intricate quilting techniques to create beautiful, beguiling, and practical textiles.
Helen works in discerning homes in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, the USA, England, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
Meditations on a fragile planet.
The 100 project is a series of textile works based on my reflections on the changing natural environment in the suburbs and the city where I live in regional Victoria.
Climate change is affecting us all in our everyday lives. In the changing seasonal weather patterns, the loss of animals and birds in our gardens and bushlands habitats, and extreme weather events are becoming common.
How the works are made.
The mixed media collages combine block-printed fabric and ink-jet-printed images using organic materials such as leaves and flowers on the printer's flatbed glass. Then, different imagery is collaged together, and the final stage is to intricately embroider the pieces using free-motion quilting with a domestic sewing machine.
Other works.
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