The natural world fascinates me.

I combine drawings and stitches on paper, which record and respond to the essence of my chosen environment. The work I produce is quiet but with an inner energy that engages and draws the viewer in, to notice things that may have been overlooked.

My aim is to capture moments of spontaneity and

the essence of the landscapes I love to be in.

I am an artist working with Drawings and Paper Textiles. My background is in Fine Art Embroidery

I challenge myself constantly on the papers, techniques and mediums I use and experience a sense of discovery and freedom when attempting to combine them and transmit lightness and discovery to the viewer.

Drawings contain inner dialogues, finding solutions to create movement and landscapes that sing of the places I walk in. Back in the studio, I like to work at the easel, using pencils, charcoal and ink. Using the outdoor sketchbooks I change scale, eliminating details, drawing onto larger sheets of hot press watercolour paper or onto large canvases.

I live in Gloucestershire, working from my studio, in a small village high up in the Cotswold hills. The woodlands and landscapes surrounding me are inspirational through all seasons.

Much of the work on my website is available - please email me if you are interested in any pieces.

Carole studied at Cheltenham Colleg of Art, and at Manchester Polytechnic in the UK graduating with a degree in Fine Art Embroidery in 1981.

She subsequently moved to London, working and exhibiting with the 62 Group of textile artists for 14 years. She worked with Fibre Art and the British Crafts Centre, particularly concentrating on transferring textile skills and drawings to transparent and translucent papers. Part time textile tutoring afforded time to develop a series of large pleated hangings inspired by Standing Stones, which opened as a Solo Show in Covent Garden. She moved to Papua New Guinea in 1985 for three years, occasionally working as a visiting tutor to the textile students at the National Art School in Port Moresby, whilst developing new bodies of work based on her new environment. On return to Kent in the UK she enjoyed raising her 2 daughters, sewing, drawing and running children’s art clubs.

Since 2002 she has lived and worked in a tiny village high up in the Cotswold Hills. She has established her studio in the village and exhibits regularly in Cheltenham and surrounds. Nature in Art, in Gloucester, invites Carole every year to be their Artist in Residence. Every other year she takes part actively in Cheltenham Open Studios.

Her work has been selected to be exhibited in the ING Diserning Eye, and the RWA Bristol and the Wildlife Artist of the Year. She has been involved with the Pure Group of Artists for five years, taking part in their exhibitions, courses and online interviews. In the Autumn of 2022 Carole was delighted to be accepted as an Artist Member with ArtCan and has been selected for many of their exhibitions.

Carole Bury is a professional artist working with Drawings and Paper Textiles.