161. Bellamy Jean Burrows - The Birth of Venus 2026

2026
Embroidered collage
17.8 x 17.8 cm

Bellamy Jean is a contemporary textile artist and designer specialising in original and bespoke embroidery. Deeply research-driven, her practice explores alchemy, spirituality, and the symbolic languages embedded within world religions. Through contemporary abstraction, she reinterprets ancient iconography, creating works that bridge mysticism, modernism, and textile tradition.

Influenced by the Symbolism movement, Bellamy prioritises emotional resonance, dream states, and psychological atmosphere over literal representation. Her work also draws on the spiritual geometry and colour relationships of Hilma af Klint, the structural clarity of Josef Albers, and the balance and movement found in the sculptures of Alexander Calder. By combining these influences with heritage techniques such as traditional quilting, appliqué, and embroidery, Bellamy creates textiles that feel simultaneously ancient and contemporary.

Her layered compositions use stitch, fabric, and colour as symbolic and emotional devices, transforming textile into a space for meditation, ritual, and abstraction. The works often sit between art object, devotional artefact, and contemporary design.

Bellamy studied on the Art Foundation course at City and Guilds College of Art (2004–2005), later completing courses in freehand machine embroidery (2017) and digital machine embroidery (2028) at the London Embroidery School.

Selected exhibitions include Babes in Arms at Big Yin Gallery, St Leonards-on-Sea (2022); Babes in Arms at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill (2022); Art on a Postcard exhibitions at The Bomb Factory, London (2025) and The Colony Room, London (2025); and Medieval Relics at The Framing Gallery at Green & Stone, London (2025).