Jacky Puzey is a contemporary embroidery artist, whose work combines traditional embroidery skills with digital technology. Jacky stitches stunning 3D tableaus in rich, vibrant colours that flow across significant striking wall screens, statement furniture and embroidered wallpaper. Featuring a menagerie of embellished creatures, squirrels chatter, foxes prowl and parakeets pirouette in Jacky’s feral pageant. She uses fur, feathers, tweed and organza as well as drawing, laser cutting and digital embroidery to explore a baroque pleasure in imagery and style. Conceptually she loves to explore visual collaborations across cultures, from multicultural graffiti-d contemporary cityscapes to historical textile motifs and traditional cloths.
Having originally trained in fine art, working in installation, photography and later costume and pattern-cutting, she completed her PhD in Fashion, Textiles and Visual Culture in 2014 at Bath Spa University, developing a passion for creative, hand drawn, digital embroidery in the process.
Jacky Puzey Embroidery was launched in that same year, specialising in creative digital embroidery commissions for interiors, fashion and bespoke tailoring.
In 2015 she won the Hand and Lock Prize for Embroidery and In 2016, was selected to be part of the Crafts Council UK’s National Hothouse scheme for designer-makers and exhibited at New Designers ‘One Year On’. In 2017 she won the Wearable Art Prize for Excellence in Fibers, USA.
She now regularly shows her bespoke embroidered wallpapers and furniture at London Craft Week and Decorex International, and works with clients globally from Europe to Kuwait to Taiwan and USA. Her work can be found in private collections across the world and has been exhibited at numerous exhibitions including Material: Textiles show at Messums Wiltshire (2019) and The Future of Crafts (LCW 2022). Recent commissions include a bespoke embroidered Paravent, created in collaboration with Watts of Westminster for the new NoMad Hotel in London; a gorgeous embroidered artwork for the reception area of the Villa Rosewood Magna in Madrid; and a custom iteration of her embroidered Peacock and Peony wallpaper for a private client’s Georgian residence in Bath. Her work is also featured in the gorgeous new book Craft Britain - Why Making Matters, by noted authors and authorities on craftsmanship and collectable design, Helen Chislett and Viscount David Linley.
She is often asked to lecture about her work, and has extensive experience teaching creative digital embroidery to artists and student textile and fashion designers.
