STEWART FRANCIS EASTON
Stewart Easton creates meticulously stitched works that unite drawing, meditation, and material practice, transforming thousands of repeated gestures into contemplative records of time, devotion, and human presence.
Evening Puja, 2025. Stewart Francis Easton. Quilt: hand embroidery on linen with machine embroidery on cotton, 32.5” x 50”
Stewart Francis Easton transforms the slow, repetitive act of hand embroidery into a contemporary language of drawing, meditation, and material inquiry. Working at the intersection of textile, abstraction, sound, and social history, his meticulously stitched works record the passage of time through thousands of individual gestures. Drawing on influences ranging from folk traditions and music to Tibetan Buddhist Lojong mind-training practices, Easton replaces narrative with rhythm, allowing process itself to become the subject. Every stitch marks an instant of focused attention, creating works that reward prolonged looking and reveal the quiet power of sustained, intentional labor.
From intimate embroidered studies to monumental quilts, Easton's work expands the boundaries of both drawing and textile practice, dissolving distinctions between craft and contemporary art. His works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Tate Modern, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Future Fair New York, Affordable Art Fair New York, and SCOPE Miami, and are held in private collections throughout the UK and internationally. Collected for their conceptual rigor, exceptional craftsmanship, and contemplative presence, Easton's embroideries invite viewers to slow down, look closely, and experience time made visible through the human hand.
Detail of Evening Puja, 2025. Stewart Francis Easton. Quilt: hand embroidery on linen with machine embroidery on cotton, 32.5” x 50”
Stewart Easton
short bio
Breaking the traditional boundaries of craft, Stewart Francis Easton’s work fuses together hand embroidery, sonic art and music.
Drawing upon and using folk song, story and social history as a starting point Easton works with the space and weight of story to create large scale wall-based pieces which emphasize the passage of time within a single panel.
Easton emphasizes the need to create using the hand as it is in this process that a
connection is made with the story allowing a slowing down and immersion in the moment.
Most recently Easton has been exploring the connection between the process of hand embroidery / expansion of awareness / and abstract forms into a body of hand stitched works documenting a daily practice of stitching meditation.
STEWART FRANCIS EASTON (B. 1976, United Kingdom) Easton has had a number of solo/ group shows both in the UK and USA. His work is part of private collections in the UK and Internationally.
Stewart Francis Easton lives and works in London, UK.
Harmonic Convergence, 2017. Cotton embroidery on canvas (framed) 27.6 x 32.7 in. (70 x 83 cm.) by Stewart Francis Easton
Lojong series
The Lojong works are an exploration onto the Tibetan Buddhist teaching of the Lojong Practice.
Lojong is a mind training practice based around a set of ‘slogans’ which are used as a focus of contemplation to broaden the awareness and train the mind.
This practice has been transferred to work with the form of hand embroidery which Stewart Easton uses to create non narrative based abstract embroideries.
available work below
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"Acid Test" embroidery on canvas, 16.5" x 12.5" (42 x 31.5 cm)
"Lojong #1," embroidery on canvas, 16.5" x 12.5" (42 x 31.5 cm)
"Lojong #2," embroidery on canvas, 16.5" x 12.5" (42 x 31.5 cm)
"Lojong #3," embroidery on canvas, 16.5" x 12.5" (42 x 31.5 cm)
"Lojong #5," embroidery on canvas, 16.5" x 12.5" (42 x 31.5 cm)
"Lojong #6," embroidery on canvas, 16.5" x 12.5" (42 x 31.5 cm)
"Lojong #7," embroidery on canvas, 16.5" x 12.5" (42 x 31.5 cm)
"Lojong #8," embroidery on canvas, 16.5" x 12.5" (42 x 31.5 cm)
"Lojong #9," embroidery on canvas, 16.5" x 12.5" (42 x 31.5 cm)
"Clear Quartz" 32 1/3" x 26 3/4" (82 x 68cm)
"Aura" 24" x 18 1/4" ( 61 x 46 cm)
"Geode" 29" x 24 1/2" (74 x 62cm)
Man and his Creation. 23 3/4” x 18” (61cm x 46cm)
Installation view of Interactive sonic quilt
Stewart Francis Easton working in his studio in London
Exhibitions
2025
SCOPE Miami Art Fair, Shrines & Portals, South Beach Miami FL. Dec 1 - 7
Nucleus Gallery, Postcard Exhibition, Portland, OR, USA
2024
Affordable Art Fair New York, NYC, USA. Sept 26 - 29
2023
Future Fair NYC 2023, duo show, Melhop Gallery º7077 / Trotter and Sholer, New York, USA. May 10 - May 13
2022
Grey Magic, group show, Studio E Gallery, Washington, USA. Dec 9 - Jan7.
Picnic, group show, Studio E Gallery, Washington, USA. August 5 - Sept 5.
EYE want candy, group show, Melhop Gallery 7077, Zephyr Cove Nevada, USA. Jul 2 - Aug 2.
Keyboard Fantasies, solo show, SCP, London, UK. Aug 11 - Aug 30.
2021
Light & Graphite, group show, Studio E Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA. Dec 11 - Jan 8
Hey There Summer Spectacular, group Show, Heythere Projects, Joshua Tree, California, USA., July 10 - Sep 9
Mothership:Earth, solo show, Melhop Gallery 7077, Zephyr Coven Nevada, USA June 7 - July 18
2 Tone : Lives and legacies, group show, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, May 28 - Sept 12
Is this the New Age? Solo show, Heythere Projects, Joshua Tree, California, USA. March 13 - April 09.
2020
Power in numbers 5, Group Show, Nucleus Portland, Portland, Oregon, USA
Modern Folk, Group Show, Outre Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Collezione, Group Show, Oneroom, London
Hey There Summer Spectacular, Group Show, Heythere Projects, Joshua Tree, California, USA.
Fragrant Lemon...at Fruitsuper design, Group show, Studio E Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
2019
Post it show, group Show, Giant Robot, Los Angeles, California, USA
Women Power Protest, group Show, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2018
Late Tate, group show, Tate Modern, London, UK
Fevral - A Folklore, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, UK
2017
Digital drop - in, V&A Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
We are Robots, Trumans Brewery, London
The Glass Bead Game, Solo Show, Nucleus Portland, Portland, Oregon, USA
Gather-ing, Somerset Museum of Rural Life, UK
Emancipation, Attenborough Art Centre, Leicester, UK
Cartists’ Coventry Transport Museum, Coventry, UK
Supersonic Friday, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
Stitch Fetish 5, Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, UK
New works, 57W57Arts, New York, USA
Contemporary Visions VII, Beers London, UK
2016
New Art West Midlands Launch, Coventry Artspace, UK
Late Tates, Group show, Tate Modern, London, UK
Scan group show, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, Oct 4
Stewart Francis Easton, solo show, Sierra Arts, Reno, Nevada, USA
The Ballad of Colonel Cody, joint show Nathaniel Mann, Aldershot, UK
2015
He longed for weightlessness, solo show, Outline Editions, London, UK
Gather-ing Stoke -Sub-Hamden Priory, Somerset, UK
the next verse, solo show, Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford, UK
the next verse, solo show as part of Supersonic Festival 2015, A3 Projects, Birmingham, UK