Let There Be Birds

Capturing the essence of nature and encasing it in metal and fabric, artist Abigail Brown plays God as she dreams up fantabulous creatures and breathes a breath just short of life into them.

Abigail Brown is an artist and illustrator based in London, England. Following a BA in Surface Decoration and Printed Textiles, she has since developed her own techniques and individual style for textile and paper sculptures.

Abigail’s enchanted world is a result of her innate love for nature. Inspired by it she blends whimsy and a blessing of a crafting talent to create birds and animals that look as if they will come alive any moment now.

In the 9 years that Abigail has been sculpting and crafting, she has managed to freeze time to depict a moment in the life of a bird through her sculptures. Besides her fascination with the anatomy of existing bird species, Abigail has even dreamt up and created birds of her own fancy; with these she provides a probable glimpse into the evolution of birds. What fascinates Abigail the most is the vast array of colours that birds have to offer; bright colours that don’t necessarily exist as abundantly in others from the animal kingdom.

“From a very young age, I was drawn to fabrics,” says Abigail. Her fascination began as a child as she watched her seamstress grandmother work with thread and fabric. Now, fabrics of every colour, shade, texture and weight form a rainbow on the wall of her studio. She hunts out new pieces wherever she travels and even picks them up from secondhand shops.