Suzette is a Textile Artist and Tutor living in a rural hamlet in North Shropshire. The natural world outside her door as well as the familiar journeys along the towpath close by, are her greatest source of inspiration for stitching and storytelling.

Her work is not lightly stitched and she never manages to tell all in the first layer but prefers to build a story through collage, thread and a little mixed media. Her work often includes hidden histories in the inherited or found fabrics and repurposed embroideries (own and other) she chooses to use for collage and sometimes as a foundation layer. Pieces of work are drawn into with hand and free machine stitching.

Her largest piece to date, Draw My World In Words, includes many repurposed embroideries and was selected for the inaugural Fine Art Textile Award Gallery at The Festival Of Quilts and Knitting & Stitching Shows in 2019. (96cm x 172cm).

Suzette delivers talks and workshops throughout the UK and in the SW France for French General in 2023/2024. In 2023 she was co curator of the acclaimed exhibition Stitch By Stitch and is co curator again for Stitch By Stitch 2025.

Suzette studied General Art & Design at NEWI, Wrexham, which then led to a BA(HONS) in Fashion and Textile Design at The University of Ulster, Belfast from 1990 to 1993.

Courses A-Z	Tutor	Start Date	Days	Cost
Making Stories With Fabric, Paper And Stitch	Suzette Smart	Thu 7th Aug	2	£130
Still Life Embroidered Collage	Suzette Smart	Tue 5th Aug	2	£130

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