Natalie Tyler trained as a print textile designer at CSM and designed commercially for the fashion sector as well as being a visiting lecturer to Fashion, Textiles and Jewellery courses.
She has developed a love of embroidery which has helped her to explore and experiment with pattern, imagery and texture. A love of still life inspires her work.
This piece is inspired by memory and the fragmentation of past events through imagery, design, print and colour that have been used to relay a life cycle of experiences embroidered onto a duvet, an everyday object that protects and comforts an ever growing developing human being.
Natalie Tyler uses hand embroidery in a playful, colourful way expressing emotion and memory.
Natalie’s work, Memory Duvet, is inspired by memory and the fragmentation of past events through imagery, design, print and colour. It relays a life cycle of experiences embroidered onto a duvet, an everyday object that protects and comforts an ever growing human being. Bedtime and sleep can mean a reflection on events before drifting off to sleep, to dream in what can be a series of thoughts and images and sensations.
The beginning of the story is a self portrait and continues with embroidery of her life through marriage, love, parenthood and other major milestones. The duvet is moving in a clockwise direction. The ‘knitted section’ represents time at University studying textiles, moving onto her design career made up of textured geometrics, ownership of a home in an estate named after flowers, a new build estate that has changed the local landscape.
A wedding photo backdrop, a toile du jour of children, an adventure into embroidered animals during lockdown and the abstract textured section to represent the uncertainty of the future being an artist and mother. The middle of her piece is a self portrait, the most important aspect of the work because the piece is about Natalie, her life, her evolution. It relays the difficulty of living life as a creative. The highs, lows and forgotten hours spent creating, sometimes with little reward or recognition, being overlooked but also the personal satisfaction of completing something unique, beautiful and thought provoking. The daily struggle of craft and art.
Bedtime and sleep can mean a reflection on events before drifting off to sleep, to dream in what can be a series of thoughts and images and sensations.
