Abigail Brown studied Surface Decoration and Printed Textiles at DeMontfort University, 2000-2003.

During and since that time she has licensed artworks to greetings card and stationery companies, designed children's wear and interior graphics, produced pieces for the fashion textile industry, designed and illustrated children's books and produced her own range of decorative textile art pieces and paper goods, sold through small shops and galleries both in the UK and Overseas.

She uses colour, pattern and texture and a visual language which is quirky and playful, reminiscent of a childhood that she holds very dear.

" As a very young little thing I grew up surrounded by the tools of my Grandma's trade...loose threads, scraps of fabric, pins and needles, and the constant whirr of the sewing machine as she peddled her way through her work, a very talented, hardworking seamstress.
She had a beautiful patchwork bag she kept her fabric scraps in, 'the raggy bag', and when I was old enough to display my feelings of desire for this magical object, full of wondrous bits of colour, pattern and texture, she made me my own, much littler version.
So this is where it began...the comfort I find in nesting away in piles of fabric and tangles of thread, and the use of such a medium to give life to the little creatures that form in my head. There is nothing more natural to me than this and in continuing to work in this way I am forever connected to my childhood and the wonderful days I spent with her.

I am fascinated by animals because of all the thoughts and feelings I can imagine they are experiencing but can never truly hope to know. I can create little worlds in which they exist, humanising them, giving them names, deciding what little neckerchief they might like to wear or what sort of personality traits they might have.

My work with birds evolved perhaps because not only are they one of the most beautiful of creatures, so precious, so fragile and yet so animated and so positively bursting with life, but also because they are the most accessible to me.
Merrily they chirp in the dawn, delighting me with their happy tunes. They are simply so enchanting to watch as they hop, skip, swoop and dance their way through the day, twisting and turning with such quizzical looks.
It pleases me to build aound me this little flock of feathered friends each so delicate and fragile, each with it's own little character which is told through the little twist of it's head of it's own individual stance. Whether birds, monkeys, cats or elephants, my work centres around animals because they give me comfort, they are truly heart warming, they make me smile...and that is the same reaction I hope merely to evoke in others."