Local textile artist, Andrea Cryer spoke to 37 of our members on Zoom this week. She is well known for drawing with needle and thread and this interest goes back to her childhood with a father who was a tailor and a mother who was a keen dressmaker.
Andrea studied Art A level at school but went on to follow a career in law after graduating from university. Later in life she mentioned a professional development course at Trowbridge College, an Art Foundation course at Bath College and a Creative Arts degree course at Bath Spa where she studied stitch, knitting, weaving and printing.
Andrea’s final degree project was inspired by a poem her son had written at the age of 8 about his grandmother. Researching she found two beautiful photographs of Grandma Kath one at the age of 18 and a second at the age of 88 which she went on to draw in stitch.