Artist Statement Suzanne Housley Noonan Textile & Embroidery Fine Art I use paint and a needle as a versatile instrument to recreate our natural environment as an embroidery textile or I call Painted Threads. I am looking to explore the transition from painting to textile with a combination of exposed and overlapping mixed medium. The movement between sewing and painting creates a balance between paint and threads. I include all kinds of hand and machine stitches. I often incorporate fiber techniques such as hand dyeing, fusing, beading, cut and slashing the fabric. Needles and threads are my tools I use to achieve my art.