Sam Crow
Sam Crow was born in the Far East, and has been gradually travelling West ever since with a needle in one hand and a biro in the other, scribbling fashion and costume ideas and bizarre characters ; absorbing all the rich textures, colours and faces on display , and developing an insatiable appetite for everything creative or theatrical along the way.
A love for the imaginary on display and a disturbing passion for textiles eventualy took her to Central St Martins to study theatre design, specializing in costume.
Happiest when creating things with her hands, surrounded by fabrics and drawing or sewing implements (heaven being an endless textile shop or wardrobe crammed with costumes in which the imagination can come out to play), she can be found designing and creating bags, accessories, creatures and costumes, scribbling with biro, drawing with stitches, or spending time with her gorgeous even more creative family: Laurence, Poppy and Jereme. Unfortunately, the moments in between these happy times are filled with sleep or enforced rest, as she is having to endure chronic fatigue syndrome, which drives her insane as she is obsessively creative and hates to waste a single moment…….. often having to be dragged off the sewing machine or having drawing implements confiscated!!!!
Her Drawing With Stitches artwork combines both the needle and the pen, using the stitch as the final mark, and (when not pure stitch on white cotton ) fabrics as a palette and canvas.
The subject matter- still heavily influenced by her love of costume design and fashion drawings – is always depicted figuritvely, and focuses mainly on the female form – costumed and masked by her role, or seen in very private moments of repose … but also depicts characters from life or imagination that want to come out to pose!
Sam always has a smile for creativity, and a great love for stories and the characters they contain – imaginary or real. She hopes her work will make you smile too, and perhaps give you a glimpse or a head start at imagining the stories surrounding each character on display.
Location: Dover
Website: samcrowart.wordpress.com
Contact: sam-crow@hotmail.co.uk
