walk/overlap

Walk/overlap - one of my pieces in the S.T.A.R.* show Vive la Tapisserie! at the Tour de Montsalès.

vive la tapisserie!

Vive la Tapisserie! opened on Saturday evening.

It was a great night, there was a good and very appreciative turnout and after the gallery shut lots of us had supper in the village hall followed by a concert on the green in front of the Tour. Delclaux and Charpentier - accordeon and cornemuse (pipes). I've been trying to post a video of them but without success so far.

There'll be more pictures of the exhibition to follow...

seed

Busy, busy finishing a tapestry for the S.T.A.R.* show which opens next Saturday and painting the panels that we'll be screwing the tapestries to ( the walls of the tour being too uneven and what's more, dark). Need to get out and put up posters and distribute flyers, collect frames and order mounts, weed and water the veg garden and oh yes feed people!

look!

I grew (most) of this. See I told you I wasn't wasting my time!

Rejection should get easier as we get older right? Or maybe you don't get used to it as a tapestry weaver as there are so few decent opportunities to exhibit.

I was very disappointed to be turned down for Art Tapestry 3 last week. I'd been working on my submission all Winter and it was a real blow. The platitudes in the rejection letter were particularly platitudinous (nothing to do with the quality of the work apparently!) and I felt all of a sudden so totally isolated in what is already a rather isolating craft.


Right now the vegetable garden seems like a worthwhile place to spend my time and energy but I guess I'll make it back into the henshed before long. As my ever practical and pragmatic friend Katy always says 'No one died...'! Hurt pride maybe but nothing worse than that.

out the kitchen window

Totally tapestry unrelated but this is what I saw from my kitchen window this evening. I haven't altered this photo at all!

the uninvited guest!

at the private view at the tour on Saturday evening!