poplar i.p.

Am on the 4th of 9 and starting to get into the rhythm of it.

Have a look at absolute tapestry.com

le troc

There's much talk of le troc (barter) in these times of la crise. (I've got a good bread for eggs arrangement going with a neighbour!) Over the years we have been lucky to exchange paintings and tapestries for other artist's paintings, pots, sculpture. The textile piece in the picture is the latest. It's a gorgeous embroidery made by a friend Colette Bessac-Lefranc and one of my tapestries is now hanging in her dining room. How satisfying is that?
I'll take some close up photos of it to show if the sun ever shines again!

aino kajaniemi

Aino Kajaniemi's tapestries here.

susan mowatt

I tell you it's all happening round here - Spring that is - trees in leaf, wild flowers everywhere, birds singing like crazy, enormous black bees on the wisteria and lots of rain in beween the sunny spells. I have just potted on 37 tomato plants. It is impossible to have too many tomatoes...!

Have a look at Susan Mowatt's blob, I love it.

Tapestry 08 catalogue available here

abbott and ellwood

I started my day with a smile - lots of smiles actually - looking at Mike Abbott and Kim Ellwood's metal sculptures!

guernica

A woven version of Picasso's Guernica is on show at the newly reopened Whitechapel Gallery in East London. Be sure to read the last paragraph of this.