FOQ favourites - Ingrid Press

Ingrid Press exhibited with Hanging Together, and also had a stand of her own. I was entranced by her work, and thrilled to see that she is also a basket maker. I concur with her opinion that basketry is the most neglected (indeed, denigrated) of the fibre arts - undeservedly so, as there are some wonderful basket makers out there. (More on this later, perhaps, in relation to sculpture - and in its own right.)

The FOQ catalogue says: "Ingrid works with cloth (which is often re-cycled) and fibre. She likes to arrange things - mainly in rows and grids. She sees beauty in repetition. Texture is also important and is achieved through dense machine stitching of the quilts and through the materials and weaving methods used when making her small vessels. Making things gives her a feeling of being connected to many generations of crafts people all over the world. She subscribes to 'Less is More' and tries to keep her work calm and rather simplistic, which is helped by the use of a limited colour palette."A willow basket with the willow quilts -
Subtle colours and close quilting -
Another detail - those are loose little tufts of appliqued fabric -
I'd love to be able to supply a link to Ingrid's website, but she doesn't seem to have one of her own - more of her work can be seen, though, on the Hanging Together site.