Love Embroidery

Katy Biele

ou could say that Chilean painter and textile artist Katy Biele is fluent in art. It has always come naturally to her to translate colourful scenes from her imagination into multi-media vistas and portraits. She began playing with colours at a young age – she vividly remembers mornings in her grandmother’s sewing studio, captivated by the threads and fabrics – making collages and drawing, painting and sewing. “It was something very normal in my family to see fabrics, paints and threads everywhere or somebody making something,” says Katy. “My mum

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