Jill Amanda Kennedy is a passionate textile artist, embroiderer and tutor who loves working in mixed media. She studied visual and applied art at college, specialising in design metals which offered a different perspective to her textile work. Her textile, embroidery and mixed media work combines bright colours with rich textures and patterns and is created by the application of free machine and digital embroidery onto unusual painted and distressed surfaces; from material and metal to paper and plastic. Jill offers online tutorials, workshops and projects through her website at http://www.craftsontheweb.co.uk Jill has written numerous articles for several creative craft and textile magazines - Quilting Arts, Cloth Paper Scissors, Sewing World and Stitch for the Embroiderers' Guild.
