About the Artist...
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 ‘Collections’ is out and available from this website and at the Festival of Quilts in August 2013. She is now well established in her new studio ’Littleheath Barn’ in Worcestershire where all the workshops and courses are now being taught.
For the last 15 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 latest book ‘Journal Quilts, Print & Dye’ is also now 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’, now also available as an online course. 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 afield.
This summer her new book ‘Collections’ is out and available from this website and at the Festival of Quilts in August 2013. She is now well established in her new studio ’Littleheath Barn’ in Worcestershire where all the workshops and courses are now being taught.
For the last 15 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 latest book ‘Journal Quilts, Print & Dye’ is also now 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’, now also available as an online course. 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 afield.
Biography...
Ineke was born in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands and moved to Bromsgrove in 1978 when she married her British husband. She has two married children;
Ineke has always had a strong interest in textiles before embarking on a City and Guilds Course in Patchwork and Quilting where she developed a love for the landscape around her home in Worcestershire and the beautiful views she encountered on her travels. Her first major landscape work: the ‘Omaha’ quilt – based on a photograph taken at the landing beaches of Normandy, was chosen to form part of the ‘Transforming Tradition’ Exhibition organised by the Quilters Guild of the British Isles. ‘Omaha’ also won a First prize at Quilts UK. ‘Salt and all its facets’ a three dimensional, mixed media piece won first prize in a competition organized by a salt musuem in the Netherlands.
In August 2006 ‘by the soaring of seagulls’ created using a new and exciting technique involving sheers and organza, earned a first prize in the innovative category at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham.
The bright ‘Here Comes the Sun’ won first prize in 2006 and in 2007 the ‘Bluebells’ again in organzas won best of Show at ‘Quilts in the Garden’ at Trentham Gardens near Stoke on Trent. In the summer of 2008 her ‘Mother of the Bride’ dress won prizes in the contemporary small section at the Festival of Quilts and at Trentham.
Her quilts have travelled to Europe, Japan and Canada with exhibitions like European Art Quilt etc.
She teaches regularly in the UK, the Netherlands, Bermuda June 2008, New Zealand at the Quilt Symposium Easter 2009, Germany, the Quilt Festival in South Africa in July 2011, in the Alsace at St. Marie aux Mines and exhibits at Viville in the Charente region of France.
Whilst Regional Co-ordinator – from 2001 till 2004, for the Quilters Guild in the British Isles she started doing talks and developed several landscape inspired workshops which are taught very successfully throughout the UK and Europe. Much of her work is inspired by her Dutch heritage and culture and through frequent travel she keeps widening her horizons.
Magazine articles include Patchwork and Quilting, Quilting Arts, Workbox, Quiltwow, Quilt enzo, Patchwork Proffesional and the European magazine Magic Patch.
Her first book ‘Landscape in Contemporary Quilts’ has been re-printed several times and in August 2009 ‘The Quilted Object’ was launched just in time for the Festival of Quilts. Her little book ‘Sketchbooks and Journal Quilts’ and the latest ‘Journal Quilts, Dye and Print’ and a DVD ‘Inspired Lutradur’ are available through this website, with a new 'Collections' published this summer.
Last summer she moved to the new ‘Littleheath Barn’ in Bromsgrove, where she lives and teaches all her workshops and courses.
Ineke has always had a strong interest in textiles before embarking on a City and Guilds Course in Patchwork and Quilting where she developed a love for the landscape around her home in Worcestershire and the beautiful views she encountered on her travels. Her first major landscape work: the ‘Omaha’ quilt – based on a photograph taken at the landing beaches of Normandy, was chosen to form part of the ‘Transforming Tradition’ Exhibition organised by the Quilters Guild of the British Isles. ‘Omaha’ also won a First prize at Quilts UK. ‘Salt and all its facets’ a three dimensional, mixed media piece won first prize in a competition organized by a salt musuem in the Netherlands.
In August 2006 ‘by the soaring of seagulls’ created using a new and exciting technique involving sheers and organza, earned a first prize in the innovative category at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham.
The bright ‘Here Comes the Sun’ won first prize in 2006 and in 2007 the ‘Bluebells’ again in organzas won best of Show at ‘Quilts in the Garden’ at Trentham Gardens near Stoke on Trent. In the summer of 2008 her ‘Mother of the Bride’ dress won prizes in the contemporary small section at the Festival of Quilts and at Trentham.
Her quilts have travelled to Europe, Japan and Canada with exhibitions like European Art Quilt etc.
She teaches regularly in the UK, the Netherlands, Bermuda June 2008, New Zealand at the Quilt Symposium Easter 2009, Germany, the Quilt Festival in South Africa in July 2011, in the Alsace at St. Marie aux Mines and exhibits at Viville in the Charente region of France.
Whilst Regional Co-ordinator – from 2001 till 2004, for the Quilters Guild in the British Isles she started doing talks and developed several landscape inspired workshops which are taught very successfully throughout the UK and Europe. Much of her work is inspired by her Dutch heritage and culture and through frequent travel she keeps widening her horizons.
Magazine articles include Patchwork and Quilting, Quilting Arts, Workbox, Quiltwow, Quilt enzo, Patchwork Proffesional and the European magazine Magic Patch.
Her first book ‘Landscape in Contemporary Quilts’ has been re-printed several times and in August 2009 ‘The Quilted Object’ was launched just in time for the Festival of Quilts. Her little book ‘Sketchbooks and Journal Quilts’ and the latest ‘Journal Quilts, Dye and Print’ and a DVD ‘Inspired Lutradur’ are available through this website, with a new 'Collections' published this summer.
Last summer she moved to the new ‘Littleheath Barn’ in Bromsgrove, where she lives and teaches all her workshops and courses.
