Today Heather organised for us to go to the Living Threads Textile Group exhibition in Long Eaton. Her kind parents drove up from Bletchley and picked up Margaret, Heather and me to go.
There was no photography at the exhibition, but it is amazing how an art exhibition makes you look at everything in an artistic way.
The exhibition was in the hall at Trent College and I was taken with the ironwork on the stairs an the cracked and broken paving slabs. I also found a putty coloured crusty lichen. I think the hall was the same vintage as my old school hall at Dover Grammar School for Girls and reminded me of it a little.
I loved the work of Alysn Midgelow-Marsden. ~~There were 4 hangings based on beaches, bays and coves in New Zealand.
Alysn's Blog shows these pieces.
I also loved the work of Janet Humphrey. The Klimt woman was awesome and her pieces based on the bottles of lotions and potions your granny had were lovely and nostalgic.
Janet's website has kits of some of her designs with handdyed lace and other bits in lovely pastel shades and digital images and words on fabric. I loved Janet's brown hare.
I did some sketching. I always do if you can't take photos. Sketching is always good cos it makes you look at things properly.
I got some ideas from couched metal thread work to maybe put into my Klimt piece I started last week.
Seeing the lichen reminded me that I still have to make the leap to fabric with my long brewing ideas for a piece based on them.
The leap to fabric is always the difficult bit! Then once you do, it seems to take no time at all.
