Jennie Wood Designs 

Creative design and experimentation with textiles and mixed media

Jennie Wood is a British textile artist, designer, quilter and teacher living in the beautiful Chiltern Hills in Oxfordshire. Here at Goring Craft Fair she is bringing creative creations with her beautiful illuminated bottles – simple but attractive additions to any interior.
Following a professional career in London ~ in the fields of architecture, interior and exhibition design, Jennie became a lecturer in three-dimensional design at the Bournemouth School of Art and Design before moving to live and work in Hong Kong, where she was introduced to the absorbing craft of quilting.
On her return to England, she completed an MA in Design Leadership after which, Jennie created the opportunity to elevate her ‘hobby’ to another level gaining a City & Guilds Bronze Medal in Patchwork and Quilting. Building on her background as a design lecturer she taught quilting for Adult Education, became a member of several quilt groups and an active member of the specialist Contemporary Quilt Group of the Quilters’ Guild. Transferring her design experience into textile art and using many and varied techniques, Jennie’s contemporary mixed media textiles have been given Judges Choice at the Festival of Quilts in England and awarded a First Place in a National Canadian Quilt exhibition. Her textile art has been published, is in private collections and has been exhibited throughout Europe and the UK including the Quilt Museum and Gallery in York. In recent years her artwork has been ben shown across Europe and Canada in travelling exhibitions, also as an invited exhibitor, alongside other UK art quilters, at the National Quilt Museum in the USA. Jennie’s artistic focus is to share her passion for creative textile work; continuing to develop her creativity while meeting new challenges in designing and painting while creating contemporary mixed media textile art. Currently, she is enjoying creating artisan textiles items using oriental and unique vintage Japanese kimono silks . . .

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