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Cognissart
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Alison Wake Textile Artist
https://cognissart.co.uk
Primary account bridged from Mastodon @cognissart.mastoart.social.ap.brid.gy I follow bridged bsky accounts from Mastodon. I use this account to boost and reply to comments
#FineArtInStitch #TextileArt
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Cognissart @cognissart.bsky.social · Apr 18
#introduction
I'm a professional #TextileArtist I live in the #PeakDistrict UK. My #TextileArt works are hand stitched, I “paint with thread and yarn” I'm a #landscape #artist predominantly but also dabble in #abstractart
@bsky.art #Art #FineArtInStitch #embroidery #stitching #embroideryart #fineart
Stitched artwork depicting a snowy landscape with stone walls and trees on the horizon. Footprints lead away thorough a gap.in the wall Framed stitched artwork depicting a stone and brick wall with climbing roses. Held in the artist's hand for scale Stitched artwork depicting an autumnal woodland path Stitched artwork depicting an autumnal woodland with shadows crossing tge path
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Seeing as I can't show any WIP (as there is no progress of work atm 🙄) I'm going to have to share some older stuff.
I will have all 4 of these original artworks with me next weekend at the @peakdistrictartisans #winterartfair

@textileart
@fiberarts

#art […]

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Stitched artwork depicting an autumn woodland with leaf strewn path leading away down the centre. A large tree trunk stands to the left Stitched artwork depicting the central front portico of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. There are four full height columns each with multipaned windows between them on the three floors. The central ground floor has a red door instead of a window. Stitched artwork depicting a gritstone outcrop in autumnal coloured moorland with two bare silver birch trees to the left. The trees are bent due to the prevailing wind. The sky is blue. Stitched artwork depicting a hayfield with waving lines of cut hay. A tree to the left casts a shadow across the field
November 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Tentative hope...
Campaign for the Arts: After more than 15 years of decline in arts education, the voices of teachers, campaigners, young people, and supporters are being heard. Arts subjects are on their way to being (to quote the government's response!) “a fundamental part of the rich and […]
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November 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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No stitching for the forseeable future 😭
#mandolin #fineartinstitch #mastoart #artistsonmastodon #textileartist #stitching #embroideryart #needlework
Right hand with heavily bandaged thumb
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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www.peakdistrictartisans.co.uk/winter-art-f...
I'll have recent original works and new prints for sale - would be great to meet fellow fedipeeps if you are local? I am working on converting members from Fb and Insta (unfortunately they are creatures of habit 🙄)
November 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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#Art #FineArtInStitch #TextileArt #bridges #AshfordInTheWater #SheepwashBridge #embroidery #fineart #ContemporaryArt #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #FediArt #artist #scape #LandscapeArt #LandscapePainting #PeakDistrict
cognissart.mastoart.social.ap.brid.gy Cognissart @cognissart.mastoart.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d
I finally managed some stitching yesterday, and feel a lot better for it! This #wip has been neglected recently but I hope to rectify that now. I also have a new commission to get started on, so will have two wips on the go (I really need a few more tbh!) […]

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A part worked stitched artwork depicting a stone bridge with two arches. Trees are visible above and some dark is now added. The fabric is stretched on a wooden frame and lacing is visible either side. The artist's thumb can be seen on the left for scale 😉
November 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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#silentsunday #mastyear
A bush with small vivid green leaves almost entirely covered in small orange berries. I think it might be a cotoneaster. Zoom in and the berries look like tiny pumpkins
November 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Collaboration exhibition by @peakdistrictartisans at the Yard Gallery, Sheffield, looking great today. A very busy #meettheartist event this lunchtime and I can recommend the cafe! 😋 #exhibition runs until Sunday 9th Nov.
#art #fineartinstitch #textileart […]

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Art exhibition in a room with bare brick walls. Paintings on the walls, ceramics on a table in the centre, blue glass circular panel in front of the window. My collaboration piece sits under a large painting on the back wall.
October 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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#silentsunday
A moss and lichen enveloped tree branch viewed looking along its length towards the trunk. It dips in the centre. The blurred background is autumn leaves
October 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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...I'm a #landscape and #architecture #artist predominantly but also dabble in #abstractart My website is www.cognissart.co.uk if you want to find out more 😊 and here is some of my work 👇
#Art #embroidery #FineArtInStitch #fineart #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #introduction
October 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Over the past year I have been collaborating with fellow @peakdistrictartisans member Katherine Rhodes on a project combining #linocut and #stitch Our finished piece "Collaborative Construct" will be on display at the Yard Gallery in Sheffield in the PDA Collaboration Showcase from 25Oct - 9Nov...
October 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Unfortunately the bridge from mastodon . art to @cognissart.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy has been suspended by instance admin. I will be looking to migrate to mastoart.social shortly but in the meantime I will have to manually post here
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mastoart.social is a creative space for you to share your art and be part of a friendly creative community. A Mastodon instance that's hosted in Germany and runs on 100% green energy.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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#SilentSunday
#dogsofmastodon
A chocolate labrador laying, serenely asleep in a beam of sunlight. Only her head and front leg are in the picture, highlighted by the sun. Behind is part of a dog bed is visble, the floor is wood.
October 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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#Fensterfreitag
Tudor windows
"Arkwright" windows
?19th century windows
https://cognissart.co.uk/this-ol-house/
Close up of stitched artwork depicting the front of Bakewell Old House Museum. A building which has grown from a tudor house (mullioned windows left), with additions in 18th century (multipained metal framed windows centre) and finally likely 19th century (sash windows right)
October 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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I handed over this recent commission to its owner today. More about This Ol' House (Bakewell Old House Museum) on my website here https://cognissart.co.uk/this-ol-house/
Another one named for the earworm it induced! 😉
@textileart

#shakinstevens #art […]

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Stitched artwork depicting a long stone building comprised of three gable ends and two connecting section. The windows all have stone surrounds but their style varies. There is a large wooden door roughly central and some green bushes near it and to the left The stitched artwork framed and held in the artist's hand for scale. Focusing on the left hand side in close up. Another close up of the right and central section. The framed artwork against a stone wall. Double mount, pale grey with darker grey reveal. Bare wood frame. Plain beige fabric (negative soace) surrounds the building
October 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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...I have made a breakthrough today though, and managed to work out what I'm doing with the grass! A collage of detail for you, as it's still not finished, but I am happier!
#Art #FineArtInStitch #TextileArt #linocut #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon
cognissart.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy Cognissart @cognissart.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · Oct 5
I'm like a bus here - don't see me for weeks and then I post twice in a day 😉
I've been "stuck" with this piece, which needs to be handed in, framed, for a gallery exhibition on 22nd Oct 🤯 It's a collaboration and I didn’t want to mess it up! I have made a […]

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A collage of 4 detail imaged of a linocut of a dry stone wall, on fabric with stitched embellishment depicting grass and lichen
October 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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#SilentSunday
A moody seascape. A single breaking wave and flat white water in the foreground. Dark sea behind. Top right, bright sunlight. The looming shape of a hill (Achill Island, Mayo) is just visible through a large low cloud in the centre. The cloud resembles an inversion if the hill
October 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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... the sound is just the rain, it was VERY wet on Saturday afternoon!
#Art #FineArtInStitch #TextileArt #embroidery #fineart #ContemporaryArt #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #FediArt #artist #ArtExhibition
cognissart.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy Cognissart @cognissart.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · Sep 22
I don't often post videos here but I had such a lovely venue for #melbourneartstrail , and my hosts were amazing, that I must show you this. I am completely spooned out now but I did enjoy meeting lots of new people and explaining how I work.
(NB the sound is […]

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September 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Apologies for the continued radio silence! I am frantically prepping for #newmillsarttrail2025 part of New Mills Festival https://newmillsfestival.co.uk Set up is tomorrow. Find my work in the window of Lighthouse Charity shop, Market St, until 28th Sept
https://newmillsfestival.co.uk/ […]
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September 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Getting my #wipwednesday in before I forget. This was progress I made on the bridge picture whilst on holiday. Unfortunately, since my return there has been no stitching done ☹️ Due in part to prep for my two arts trails (see separate posts if I have the spoons) […]

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Part worked stitched artwork depicting a stone bridge. Two shallow arches and two angular supports can be seen. The work is stretched on an embroidery frame and viewed at an angle to show texture
September 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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...by wristband and trail guide which cost £5 per adult (<18 free).
See www.melbournefestival.co.uk/trail for full detals.
Do come and say hello if you're around 👋
@textileart@fedigroups.social

#Art #FineArtInStitch #TextileArt #artforsalebyartist #artexhibition
September 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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#SciArtSeptember day 1 fluid.
This is an old one from 2020 "Wild Atlantic Wave" - I need to do more of these!
@fibrearts
@textilearts
@embroidery

#wildatlanticway #wildatlanticwaves #art #fineartinstitch #textileart #embroidery #fineart #contemporaryart #MastoArt #artistsonmastodon #fediart #artist
A tiny embroidery hoop (about 4cm diameter held in the artist's hand for scale. The stitched artwork depicts a breaking wave with highly textured foam and the wave crest in shiny silk yarn in shades of grey The same artwork viewed in close up and at an angle to show texture
September 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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There's a second #SciArtSeptember running in parallel with the one I joined the other day, so here is day 3 of this conservation themed list - jewel (though I dont get the conservation link 🤔)
Winter Jewels in Ruby Wood, 2022, another oldie.
@fibrearts […]

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Stitched artwork depicting winter beech trees with snow on the ground. Red autumnal leaves are still clining to spme of the branches The same artwork viewed at an angle to show texture. The red leaves appear to glow The alternative #SciArtSeptember list with an image of a buffalo Text: #SciArtSeptember Month-long art challenge. Week 1: Lands 1 Islet 2 Canopy 3 Jewel 4 Riverbank 5 Corridor 6 Prairie 7 Boreal Week 4: People 22 Fellowship 23 Scouting 24 Numbered 25 Tireless 26 Forage 27 Bounded 28 Harvest Week 5: A Shared Future 29 Foresight 30 Dream Week 2: Species 8 Niche 9 Vanishing 10 Tawny 11 Venomous 12 Wandering 13 Bottleneck 14 Mimic Week 3: Water 15 Spawning 16 Rift 17 Trawl 18 Cenote 19 Depths 20 Glacial 21 Reef Year 5, 2025: Conservation Hosted by @LizLagomorph + @LucyGemArt
September 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Feeling a little sad 🙁 We go home tomorrow, I'm going to miss this view, even with the rain 😉
#wildatlanticway #doohomahead #mayo #phonephotography #blacksodbay #ireland #holiday
A wide panorama of a large ocean bay with land visible on each side and in the foreground. The sky is cloudy but sun reflects off the water from a small patch of blue sky to the right. Rain can be seen falling on the left.
September 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I'm a little lax with #SciArtSeptember
Here are days 4 and 5
Riverbank and Corridor
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@textilearts
@embroidery

#art #fineartinstitch #textileart #embroidery #fineart #contemporaryart #MastoArt #artistsonmastodon #fediart #artist
Stitched artwork depicting a waterfall and foliage on the bank Stitched artwork depicting a path through beech woodland which resembles a tunnel
September 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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I am on a bit of a digital detox so only here intermittently atm. Here are some #wildatlanticwaves for #wavewednesday

#mayo #waw #wildatlanticway #eire #ireland #doohomahead #belmullet
A beautiful curling wave breaking on a beach with lots of foam, brught white in the sun. On the horizon a spit of land is just visible Another curling wave forming a tube on the left and crashing to foam on the right. Top right a cloud mirrors the wave foam Facing a breaking wave which forms a long tube centrall. On thehorizon is are small hils and tge water between that and the wave is dark. In the foreground calm, shallow water A slightly gloomy sea scene the horizon is lost in mist. In the foreground a wave is breaking forming tubes from either side and a peak in the centre which resembles a cave
August 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM