I will be opening my studio for Dorset Artweeks, Venue 283 in the Artweeks Guide. Open every day, 10.30 – 4.30 except Thursdays, when closed. I am listed under textiles, but there will be lots of my prints too. Full details: dorsetartweeks.co.uk
This excellent group show of selected makers from Dorset opens this Friday, December 8th 2017. I will have prints and small tapestries here. A few other works of mine can currently be found in group shows at The Red Brick Building in Glastonbury, and ACE Arts in Somerton. Both lovely shows.
New work is beginning to happen now. My long standing Mending themes are still there, but are moving on to something broader, more to do with fragility, and possibly memory. I begin by getting most of the yarn that I have dyed over the last 25 years for many different projects, and start working … Read more
My show has been beautifully hung by Slade Centre Curator and Director, Anne Hitchock. Above is a small selection of the prints, plus one of the tiny tapestries, on show. Below another wall of tapestries. Many thanks to all who came to my talk yesterday in the gallery. Always so good to have conversations about … Read more
My show is now imminent. I have made a new series of prints, and I’m still working away at new small tapestries, my new large one ‘Big Stripes’ now finished. This is a detail: The weekend before my show opens, I will also be represented at the launch of an important new book:
Making new work to include with a retrospective show of tapestries and prints that will open at The Slade Centre in Gillingham on July 8th. Really looking forward to this – it will be the first time I have gathered together work from the past 20 years or more, and working with curator Anne Hitchcock … Read more
An exciting year ahead, as I continue to develop work that I started in December around the power of stripes. Like my work around mending, this interest started through my love of the visual impact of stripes, but I am fast finding there is also a great deal of iconography and culture to be explored. … Read more
Have spent most of the summer in the garden, as ideas (mostly around more vertical lines/stripes) for my next prints and tapestries grow slowly in my mind. The garden has been growing rather faster, in our warm, mostly damp, summer, requiring endless clearing. By the end of July the freshness of May and June are … Read more
‘Ravel and Roll’ joins my other small tapestries in my studio which has been open for a week now for DAW. Also, of course, many of my prints – lots of stripes, lots of images to do with textiles. Weather, although VERY cold in the mornings, has been wonderfully sunny, and the meadows around us … Read more
