Ineke Berlyn Online
Ineke is an international prize winning textile artist, who combines her love for colour, fabric and travelling to create an ever changing collection of work and sketchbooks.
This summer her new book ‘Journal Quilts, dye and print’ is out and available from this website and at the Festival of Quilts in August 2011. She has now also moved into her new studio ’Littleheath Barn’ in Bromsgrove where all the workshops and courses are now being taught.
For the last 10 years Ineke has been working not only in UK where she lives, but also in her native country of the Netherlands, around Europe and she recently returned from a successful teaching trip to South Africa.
Her first book ‘Landscape in Contemporary Quilts’ published in 2005 established Ineke as an accomplished artist with a passion for interpreting the landscape in a colourful, but often simple geometric style. In between working on exhibition pieces she enjoys trying out different materials and techniques, these experiments have resulted in the publication of her second book ‘The Quilted Object’. Recently she also published a catalogue of two years’ of monthly journal quilts called ‘Sketchbooks and Journal Quilts and now also available is the DVD ‘Inspired Lutradur’. The lastest book ‘Journal Quilts, print & dye’ is now and available from this website.
Her portfolio of work includes experimenting with Lutradur, an industrial material that lends itself perfectly for being coloured with acrylic paints, stitched, burned and manipulated in all kinds of way as well as fabric print techniques using thermofax screens, fabric paints and de-colouring pastes.
Recycling old denim jeans is also very topical subject for workshops and courses.
Then there are the monthly ‘Journal Quilts’. Sometimes there just isn’t time to make a ’proper’ piece of textile art, but being part of a monthly challenge group is a sure way of producing something fast and experimental, the result is a series of 12 mini quilts together with their sketchbook inspiration.
Two years’ worth of journal quilts with a selection of the best sketchbook pages are available as a catalogue.
As a respected tutor she generously shares her knowledge and enthusiasm during workshops (in English as well as Dutch, French and German) and courses that she teaches in her new studio barn in the Worcestershire town of Bromsgrove, her lovely holiday home in France or whilst out and about in the UK, throughout Europe and further a field.
For more information on workshops etc contact me on: inekeberlyn@hotmail.com or ine@inekeberlyn.com or phone 0121 4453011.