Jan Beadle

Jan moved to Cumbria in the mid 80’s after completing her BA Hons in Textiles.

She has over 30 years experience in the textile field working in Higher Education running a Constructed Textile Resource at University of Cumbria, formally Cumbria Institute of the Arts until 2010, when she decided to start concentrating fulltime on making and exhibiting her own work. Jan is a member of the Wool Clip, a co-operative of local craftspeople based at Caldbeck in North Cumbria and she is one of the organisers of Woolfest in Cockermouth.

As well as selling her work in many galleries around the UK Jan runs specialist weave courses for a wide range of abilities..