Jo Budd ( fl. 1980 -) is an English artist specialising in creating art from textiles. Trained as a Fine Artist her work could be described as Quilt Art, but frequently contains both collage and/or printing.

Biography

Josephine Budd was born in 1961 in

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...

. She completed her Fine Art education in

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and began a career in teaching as well as practising her art. She is known for her art work using quilts, collage and printing.Jo Budd at Festival of Quilts, 2006
, Celia Eddy, September 2006 Budd has tackled a number of commissions for notable companies and her work is in a number of collections including the

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,Winter/Male and Summer/Female
Jo Budd,

. Retrieved June 2010 Budd's use of landscape in her work led Edexcel to recommend her as an artist for British Art and Design

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students to study in 2010.Art & Design Exam paper
Edexcel, 2010. Retrieved June 2010 Budd lives near the Norfolk and Suffolk border with her partner, Brian Excell. She has one son.

Work

* Winter/Male – Hanging – 320 x 179 cm * Summer/Female – Sewn collage – 170 x 314 cm

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Budd, Jo British textile artists Quilters Living people Artists from Norwich Women textile artists Year of birth missing (living people)