JPR Stitch (aka. Dr. Jack Roberts), is a fine artist whose primary medium is freehand machine embroidery. His art is formed from simple organic flowing abstract shapes, but is constructed from a dense and complex web of stitch. His stitchings are a reflection of the calmness, tranquillity and contentedness that he feels when sitting at the sewing machine and creating. Sewing is his meditation…
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I understand my medium so intimately, its idiosyncrasies don’t hinder me – my deeper-self knows how to control the complexities of the machine, the thread, the fabric, the noises that the machine provides. As a result, when I create, I am free from thinking about the mechanics - instead I am free to sink into calmness and the inner tranquillity that guides my art.
In creating my art, I close myself off; I close myself off from the everyday noise of life, close myself off from the external noise of peoples’ demands, requests, phone calls, emails, questions, conversations and distractions; close myself off to the internal noise of my own thinking mind - of thoughts, doubts, judgements, plans and complications. When I stitch, I am free, free from distraction and worry, I am quiet, still and calm. I drift into emptiness, almost like entering the eye of a storm - in that moment my creativity flows.
