Occupied Hands Artwork

Llinos Owen (b.1998) is a Welsh Fine Art textile artist, originally from North Wales and currently based in London. The artist moved to London in 2017 to study Fine Art: Painting at Wimbledon College of Arts (UAL) and graduated in 2020. Since graduating, Owen has developed her artistic practice to be mostly textiles based and has exhibited her textured tapestries in many group exhibitions in the UK such as Delphian Gallery’s “Synthesis” at the Saatchi Gallery and the “Let’s Talk About Textiles” Exhibition at The Other Art Fair in early 2022, as well as her first Solo Exhibition titled “Thank Your Lucky Stars” at Orleans House Gallery in 2021. The artist was also named as one of Saatchi Art’s Rising Stars and since then, her textured tapestries have been exhibited and commissioned for collaborative projects such as album art for electronic duo Disclosure for their 2023 album “Alchemy” and a solo exhibition titled “Pick Me Up” for the 2023 Shoreditch Design Triangle. Llinos Owen continues to develop her textile practice by exploring her personal narratives and subject matters through writing, drawing and tapestry making in her North London studio, creating painting inspired imagery with her textiles materials. Llinos Owen’s autobiographical textile practice begins with personal written and visual material from her diary. Diary writing has always been present within the artist’s life, from when she was gifted a journal as a child, constantly drawing, writing and collecting mementos that seemed significant at the time, to today where writing has become a ritualistic practice to process different personal life experiences and vulnerable narratives. In a variety of different ways throughout the artist’s life, diary writing and journaling has always been a creative output and a form of meditation to reflect and process experiences, emotions and thoughts, however the private documentation of these autobiographical experiences, unexpectedly but naturally evolved to be used like a sketchbook, a starting point to her creative process and the main source of inspiration for her textile practice.   Llinos Owen’s textile practice explores memories, relationships, observations and personal life experiences to create textured tapestries focusing on painting inspired figurative imagery through the technique of punch needle rug hooking.