Author name: Nicky Perryman

Hey, I'm a textile artist based in the UK. I like playing around with fabric paint, stitching both hand and machine embroidery and I have far too many sequins. I'm inspired by nature, its mysteries, subtleties, delights and complexities. The outer natural world has its counterpart in the inner spiritual world and I am also inspired by folklore, poetry, fairytales, stories of long ago when the spirits of nature seemed less shy than they do today, as well as my own shamanic journeys into the dreamland.

When Life is Painful Just…

Nicky Perryman / June 25, 2010

This is done with Pitt Pens on cartridge paper. I like birds and clouds. And anything pretty really. Pretty things […]

Purple Sequin experiment

Sequin Experiments

Nicky Perryman / June 24, 2010

[wpg] I’ve been working on some experiments with textures using sequins and bondaweb. I am quite pleased with how they

Green Umbels

Nicky Perryman / June 22, 2010

Well it’s been one of those days when I have done nothing much worth talking about and felt totally guilty

Bronze Textures

Nicky Perryman / April 26, 2010

I have been mucking about with this for a while using textile felt tip pens, gold fabric paint, machine stitching

Purple Nevsky Bird

Nicky Perryman / February 26, 2010

This embroidery is called “Purple Nevsky Bird” after some drawings I did in the Alexander Nevsky cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria