CQ Quilters textile art | CTL Contemporary Textiles London

To read more about the textile artists and contemporary quilters in the group, please click on the individual artist’s name for further details about the person.

Amanda Jane Ogden

Amanda took a long route to becoming a Textile artist. She is a Cambridge University Modern Languages graduate who worked in educational publishing as an in-house and then as a freelance editor. Much later, an embroidery course led to a BA in Textiles & Surface Pattern at CCAD/Teesside University and a Textiles PGCE (Bretton Hall). For thirteen years, she taught Textiles and Art in a secondary school, in FE and in a post-16 SEN college. In 2014, she set up her small business Amanda Jane Textiles. Since then, Amanda has designed quilt patterns for magazines in the UK, the US and Australia - and also for sale in her online shop. Her quilts have been exhibited with CTL in 2023, at the Festival of Quilts each year since 2016, at the first Moscow quilt show and in a SAQA touring exhibition entitled ‘Heritage’. She regularly works to commission and is listed as a designer-maker in the Crafts Council Directory. http://Www.amandajanetextiles.com

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September 2026

Annie Folkard

Annie Folkard is a textile artist who’swork chiefly explores colour and pattern. She has a background in Fashion and Textiles training initially at Manchester Polytechnic where she got a First class degree. Since discovering patchwork and quilting in 2018 she has exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023 and a prize awarded solo show in 2026. She also exhibits regularly at the Festival of Quilts, London Quilters and Contemporary Textiles London. anniefolkardquilts.uk @AnnieFolkard https://anniefolkardquilts.uk Instagram: @AnnieFolkard

Cathy Corbishley Michel

Cathy has been making Cyanotype photographically printed quilts and textiles for over 25 years using both historical and modern images. Examples of her work are in the Quilters Guild collection, museums and private collections both in the UK and beyond. She volunteers inthe secondhand bookshop at Morden Hall Park. August 2026

Christine Restall

Christine has exhibited quilted wall hangings for over thirty years mainly in the UK and France and has work in private collections and museums, including the National Quilt Museum in Houston. Her work tends to be abstract in expression but stems primarily from love of nature and wild places.

Claire Manners Wood

Claire is an Australian textile artist based in London. She transforms life experiences and her colourful creativity into meaningful free motion machine embroideries and abstract textile sculptures. Claire moved into textile art in the final year of her fine art course and particularly enjoys working with textiles inherited from her mother.

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Connie Gilham

Connie’s textile journey began with dressmaking and included all forms of needlework before settling on quilting and textile art. She enjoys printing and dyeing fabric and likes to use a wide range of textiles and papers in her work.

Dani Atkinson

Dani is a textile and mixed media artist and teacher. She is inspired by the world around her, especially nature and architecture. She likes to experiment and explore new techniques and materials and sharing with students.

August 2025

Dianne Whyte

Dianne is a contemporary textile artist who works in the quiet language of stitch. Through layered fabrics, rich textures and hand embroidery, she explores landscapes, boundaries and the transformative passage of time, allowing each piece to evolve organically through process rather than predetermined design. August 2026

Helen Thomson Harris

Helen’s love of quilting started whilst living in the Netherlands. On returning to the Uk, she spent time at Committed to Cloth and did a City & Guilds in Patchwork & Quilting. She takes inspiration from her family roots in tailoring and millinery, to explore working with different fabrics and materials.

Jane Munns

Jane loves colour and her work reflects the joy that she finds in her surroundings. This could be on her travels or closer to home in her garden or walking the footpaths and lanes surrounding her home. The many photos she takes provide a rich source of inspiration.

Jane Wray

Jane loves to explore textiles. She embarked upon a City and Guilds patchwork and quilting course in 2010, followed by many happy days spent at Committed to Cloth and various other workshops, where she developed a passion for dying and printing fabric. Jane continues on her creative journey, still learning new ideas, skills and techniques.

August 2026

Janet Beck

Janet made her first piece of patchwork in 1975, hand pieced hexagons, unsurprisingly. Twenty years later, having acquired a sewing machine, dressmaking skills and a lot of fabric she rediscovered patchwork. And she has not stopped since, going to classes, joining groups and making many quilts and many friends. @janallanbeck August 2026

Jean Dallal

Jean has been sewing since she was a child – always enjoyed sewing classes at school. When younger she was an avid dressmaker – making clothes for daywear and evening using different and unusual fabrics. Jean was taught knitting at a young age and enjoyed using intricate stitches to create a garment. She taught herself crochet six years ago. During Covid Jean discovered the wonderful world of quilting and enjoys using different fabrics to create decorative pieces. Jean also enjoys painting.

Jill Holden

Jill’s work is eclectic, informed both by traditional quilting techniques and contemporary art, especially where organic forms and earthy colours predominate. Transforming a recognisable image – water, plants, stonework – into an abstract piece is a current preoccupation, partly using unusual colours and partly by distorting with stitch. August 2026

John Miller

John has been quilting since 2014. His Open AwardsDiploma in Master Quilting was awarded in 2025. Hisquilts are inspired by social themes related to LGBTQA+issues, wealth inequality, and AI, as well as the NorthKent coast. Current interests include using folded fabric tocreate a 3 - dimensional element to his wall hangings. @quiltingjohn August 2026

Khurshid Bamboat

I learned to sew at a young age with my mother and aunt (both who were excellent needlewomen). However, I am the first quilter in the family! In 1981,I made my first block with Joen Lask at The Patchwork Dog & The Calico Cat.

I did my City & Guilds Parts 1 & 2 in Embroidery & Design (C&G Patchwork & Quilting didn’t exist at that time) but returned to P&Q after that and never looked back. I have done countless workshops with some great tutors. I then learned to dye and print with Leslie Morgan before she and Claire Benn formed Committed to Cloth and continued with C2C until it closed in 2021 and I am so grateful for that experience – it changed my work. I enjoy working with acrylics as well as mixed media.

I took a virtual course about earth pigments with Claire Benn in 2022 and then furthered my knowledge with an online course. That has changed how I view and design my work at the moment. I am trying to discipline myself in not doing too many workshops but to channel what I have learned and use my knowledge to design my current work. At the moment, I prefer to use hand stitching in my work. During lockdown, I did some excellent online courses that took me away from my comfort zone. Although I admire traditional quilts, I far prefer to print my own cloth to use in my hangings which are quite abstract. I have always loved writing – have written many reviews in different magazines and newsletters and like incorporating text in my work if applicable. Thanks to a project in 2021, I have rekindled my love of hand stitching – I try to do some every evening. I still want to get better at free motion quilting as well as try to make a dent in my fabric in 2022. Member of The Quilters Guild and Contemporary Quilt Group.

December 2024

Linda Seward

Linda Seward went to Rutgers University/Douglass College, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Home Economics. She then studied fashion at Tobe Coburn School in New York City, where she lived for several years. She worked in publishing as a needlework & crafts editor in both America and England. Linda has written many needlework books, including The Complete Book of Patchwork, Quilting & Appliqué and The Ultimate Guide to Art Quilting. In addition to making quilts, she lectures internationally on quilt making and works as a freelance writer, editor, teacher and quilt judge. She is a member of London Quilters and The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles.

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October 2022.

Maggie Jarman

Reluctant to classify herself as a textile artist, Maggie works mainly on paper, drawing life and landscape. Yet she loves that extra layer of texture and tactility fabric lends pictures, particularly photographs. Colour and line choices are profoundly influenced by her passion for teaching geomorphology and geology – rocks are inspiration!

Nicqui Willis

Nicqui’s work generally uses a combination of surface design techniques and can be found in a number of private collections and publications. Latterly Nicqui has focused on the use of earth pigments in combination with soy milk on vintage textiles and has rediscovered the joy of hand stitch. August 2026

Rachel Tyndall

Rachel has always enjoyed sewing and, after retiring, expanded her textile skills and practice. She enjoys transforming plain white fabric into richly coloured artworks by dyeing, cutting and reassembling the fabric before enhancing it with hand and machine embroidery.

August 2026

Susie Dakers

Susie has been quilting for 40 years. She completed City & Guilds at Morley college. Susie uses traditional and alternative methods together, often working multi-layers of material cut from front and back revealing various fabrics. She recycles tin, plastic, paper, photos. Often machine and hand quilts same piece. Susie has exhibited in UK, USA, Germany.

August 2026

Member of the Quilters’ Guild

Co-founder with Jan Hale of Ouse Valley Quilters (Formed in 1994 – Disbanded in 2023)

Former member of Dulwich Quilters

Sandra Grusd

Sandra Grusd is a contemporary textile artist who graduated from Liverpool College of Art with a degree in hand woven and printed textiles. Sandra’s quilt making journey began at a Nancy Crow workshop and now she creates innovative, abstract wall hangings using multi layered hand dyed and hand-printed fabric. Sandra’s textile works have been exhibited widely across the UK and Europe.

August 2026

Valerie Huggins

Valerie began quilting in 1989 and gained a City andGuilds Medal of Excellence for Patchwork and Quilting,1996, and BA (Hons) in embroidery and mixed-media textiles, Opus/Middlesex University, 2011. She hasexhibited with London Quilters and was selected for the Festival of Quilts’ Graduate Showcase and Fine Art Masters. August 2026

Viv Philpot

Viv Philpot is a quiltmaker based in The Old Laundry Art Studios in Phipps Bridge on the edge of Morden Hall Park. She creates quilts that celebrate colour, craftsmanship and tradition. Using timeless piecing techniques and meticulous hand stitching, each quilt reflects her passion for textiles, blending heritage skills with a distinctive contemporary sensibility. www.vivphilpot.com Instagram:@philpotviv August 2026 December 2019