The best part of the day - always - is the encounters with old friends. But there were things to see, too.
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Works from the 40 years of the Quilters' Guild - these
(by Diana Harrison and Jo Budd) are from my formative years |
Eco dyeing was/is "big"....
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"Did you see the pots?" people kept asking me. I did, and they made
me want to get back to stitching! By Fabienne Rey |
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| Sandra's Antarctic works on paper |
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"Silk Road" by Elizabeth Brimelow - strips of silk,
carefully tied at both ends ... a long thin piece |
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| Another long thin piece (easy to store!) by Janet Twinn |
I went to the lecture by
Michael James, but looked at his gallery first and was struck by the monochrome quilts. These were made during the time of his wife's final illness.
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| Detail showing how the quilting adds to the work |
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Recent, happier work - he explained how the fabrics were digitally
printed, based on photographs and drawings from India |
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Leprous Hands is digitally embroidered
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The Fine Art "Quilts" are usually contentious - and now it's become a "textiles" category! These are among those that appealled to me -
Nearly missed the tiny gallery with five complicated quilts from the Japan quilt show. The detail of the work is astonishing -
Finally, my favourite piece(s), from the Pojagi exhibition, are these "collages" by
Marian Bijlenga - oil paint on used sandpaper -
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