Layla Tutt

Layla Tutt is a self-taught musician and visual artist specialising in the medium of batik. She has worked her hands in wax and dye for over 18 years. She creates 'tulis' hand-painted batiks using traditional ‘tjanting’ tools and techniques as well as her own experimental methods.

Looking to Mother Nature for inspiration, she depicts plants and flowers; wild and cultivated; medicinal and poisonous; real and imaginary. Layla is also influenced by Art Nouveau design, the Arts & Craft Movement and 1960’s/1970’s Psychedelia.

Layla is an Associate of The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and a member of The Batik Guild.