Fabric sculpture artist Mary-Ann Toop is the guest today on the Stitchery Stories podcast. Mary-Ann shares her story of leaving her civil engineering career, battling depression and starting her fascinating creative journey. Mary-Ann is determined to make her soft fabric sculptures move - and is particularly fascinated by flight... it's the engineer in her creeping out again!

Susan Weeks chats with Mary-Ann about:

• Experimenting with automata
• Making her stitched creations move
• Starting a creative journey to see what she could do
• Trying to be creative every day
• How creativity help battle depression and ill-health
• The benefits of becoming immersed in small repetitive  movements like embroidery
• Exploring Pinterest... and discovering that textiles and embroidery can be art
• Who is Concordia?
• A fascination with flight
• Evolving techniques using wire, clay, fabric, embroidery
• The story of the nightshirt and the gargoyl
• And so much more!

For this episode

View Show Notes, Links & Examples of Mary-Ann's work at https://www.stitcherystories.com/maryanntoop

Visit: https://concordiasworld.com/

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Other artists episodes mentioned:

Bryony Rose Jennings https://www.stitcherystories.com/bryonyrosejennings/

Annie Taylor https://www.stitcherystories.com/annietaylor/

The Artists Way by Julia Cameron