Sylvia Naylor is a Canadian artist and educator.  She began her career in England, as a teacher, before moving to Canada.  She has taught thread and paint related workshops in Canada, the USA and England.

Her art work has evolved over the years. There was a period when she was making ecclesiastical hangings but more recently her work has been inspired by the natural landscape. In these representational embroideries she uses free motion machine embroidery on her own dyed and painted fabrics.

 Sylvia loves to experiment with paints and stitches which has led to quilt art pieces and collages which combining paper and hand and free machine embroidery.

Her beautiful embroideries using free motion machine embroidery are worked on her dyed and transfer painted fabric. Sylvia finds the inspiration for her work everywhere but her love of the natural world predominates.

She has won numerous awards and has been featured in several publications. This year she will have articles in Quilting Arts [USA] and will be featured in the monthly magazine published by Bernina in Switzerland.

Sylvia's works have been shown in galleries in Canada, the UK, USA and Germany. Works are also in private collections in many parts of the world.

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