COLOURICIOUS
The UK’s leading source of inspiration for textile arts and crafts –
“learn, create, be happy”.
www.colouricious.com

Jamie Malden in Wet Studio

Recent government research revealed that between 5-6 million or 1 in 6 people (17% of population) regularly participate in visual arts, textile arts and crafts to create and express themselves in a simple, purposeful way. It seems that arts and crafts are an increasingly effective antidote for millions to living in such a chaotic, uncertain world and one so dominated by economics, shopping, consumerism and technology.

One woman with an unswerving, lifelong passion for all types of crafts and especially textile art, Jamie Malden, founder of Colouricious, believes that for many people real happiness is derived from ‘being creative, making things yourself, trying something new’. Academics have claimed the dominance of economics over culture is being reversed as the ‘Creative Class’ emerges where innovation and creativity are a more effective way to drive our economy, business, cities, communities and lifestyles.

Jamie is on a mission and knows that there is ‘creative spirit’ in everyone and believes greater happiness in life is derived from nurturing this fundamental need in us all. She plans to share and pass on the joys of one creative route, that of textile art and crafts, with as many people as possible. Colouricious.com is the vehicle she has created in order to achieve this.

In 2008 Jamie invested her own savings, turned her passion into a new career and started Colouricious, a growing and popular multi-media source of all things textile art, specifically created to share knowledge, inspire and teach more people how to create their own textile art at home.

Working alongside many of the UK’s leading textile artists, Jamie and Colouricious try to bring a refreshing, accessible and comprehensive range of products to ignite creativity and enhance all levels of textile arts and craft skills.

She created a production company and turned her house into a film studio in order to make professional, broadcast quality programmes offering complete step by step guides. “When I looked, there wasn’t much out there in terms of easy to follow guidance made professionally and I thought film was the most visual, best medium to show people the beautiful, inspiring things we can all create at home.”

In addition to their website Colouricious also have a blog.

Jamie Malden