Textile artists

Batik artist with over 25 years experience working with textiles. Specialising in using wax and resist techniques with silk painting, Kennedy produces hand-painted silks, including fabric lengths, banners, wall hangings and pictures. Her design themes are mostly based on natural forms and often feature flowers and natural, organic landscape images

Produces batik pictures and hangings on cotton lawn, silk and certain Chinese and handmade papers using mainly cold water reactive dyes. Cantings are sometimes used, but the artist prefers to work with brushes and uses other, simpler techniques to apply the wax. Dyes can be hand-painted, although dip-dyeing in a bath is preferred as it allows the

Specialises in hand-painted silks, using kniazeff steam-fix dyes and heated wax as a resist. Barbaras batik pictures are inspired by landscape and nature. Commissions are welcome and have included holiday scenes, homes and gardens. All batiks are professionally mounted and framed behind glass. Also paints original designs on hand-rolled silk