Debbie Lyddon
Textile Artist

Profile

Debbie originally worked as a musician playing and teaching the flute. Now, as a textile artist, she is combining these two elements, drawing together two of the senses: sight and sound. She has explored ways of taking her impressions of a piece of music and expressing visually the emotions and mood revealed to her.

For this body of work she has taken Benjamin Britten’s ‘Four Sea Interludes’ as her inspiration. Britten’s own annotations on his score furnish an insight into the composer’s mind: ‘seascape, slow wave, wind, gulls, spray blowing’. These words are the basis of her interpretation and this context has enabled her to incorporate the two elements of music and seascape.

Debbie has a close association with the North Norfolk coast. This landscape has big skies, long sandy beaches, and an ever present horizon. She has combined personal observations of these features with the musical ones of rhythm, melody, harmony and pitch to create a visual expression of the music. The two essential elements of this environment are the horizon and the features that dissect it. These lines have become fundamental to her drawing: the horizontal line depicting melody and the vertical, rhythm and time.

Since finishing the Diploma of Higher Education in Stitched Textiles at East Berkshire College in June 2008, Debbie has been invited by the Embroiderer’s Guild to show her work in the Graduate Showcase at the Knitting and Stitching shows in Birmingham, London and Harrogate in Autumn 2008. She has been awarded a Licentiateship with distinction by the Society of Designer Craftsmen and was invited to show ‘Sea Interlude’ in January at their winter exhibition Designer Crafts 2009 at the Mall Galleries, London. In September 2009 she starts an MA in Contemporary Textiles at the University of Hertfordshire.

Qualifications

City and Guilds, Part I and II – Creative Studies, Embroidery,
Diploma of Higher Education Stitched Textiles
Licentiate of the Guild of Designer Craftsmen

Memberships

Society of Designer Craftsmen
Phoenix Contemporary Textile Group
Embroiderers Guild

Exhibitions

September 2008 Place: Sight, sound, Chequer Mead Gallery, East Grinstead

Autumn 2008 Graduate Showcase, Knitting and Stitching Show, Birmingham, London, Harrogate

January 2009 Designer Crafts 2009, Society of Designer Craftsmen, Mall Galleries, London

April-May 2009 Sunbury Embroidery Gallery, Sunbury on Thames

October 2009 Phoenix Contemporary Textile Group, Riverhouse Gallery, Walton on Thames

December 2009 Place: Sight, sound, Chequer Mead Gallery, East Grinstead

Contact

Email:debbielyddon@hotmail.co.uk

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