past present future

It's finished! At 20 cm high and 1.8m wide it's quite hard to photograph. We set it up on a table in Warb's studio and I went upstairs and photographed it leaning over the mezzanine. You can see a photo of the finished piece here.

8 out of 9

The end is in sight - I'm on the last tapestry in my series of 9. I've got to admit it's beginning to feel like a slog (well today it did anyhow...) and I'll be so glad to finish. There is one I may have to redo as like a dope I used two colours in the warp and of course it shows. Can you see which one? Yep I thought so...

annie turner

Margaret Cooter mentions Annie Turner on her blog today. I have a policy of buying a piece of art or craft whenever I sell well at an exhibition. At Chelsea Crafts Fair in 2006 (I think) I was in the same aisle as Annie. I had one particularly expensive tapestry and promised myself that if it went I would have one of Annie's ladders. It's one of the things I'd rescue if the house was on fire. Spare, elegant, poetic.


There is an online exhibition of Archie Brennan's work here. It'll be there for a few months.

round

I've started a new blog purely for fun! It's here.

S.T.A.R.*

Susan Mowatt


So here's the news!

I'm delighted to announce that S.T.A.R.* (Scottish Tapestry Artists Regrouped) will be exhibiting at Galerie la Tour Montsalès this summer - 16 July - 18 August. The exhibition will be open every day from 3 - 7pm.

Fiona Hutchison

The list of exhibitors is ... Sara Brennan, Amanda Gizzi, Linda Green, Fiona Hutchison, William Jeffries, Jo McDonald, Susan Mowatt, Paul R. Penrice, Elizabeth Radcliffe, Anna Ray, Joanne Soroka, Lesley Stothers and me.

Linda Green


There will be a great range of tapestry on show from the narrative works of Amanda Gizzi to Fiona Hutchison's textural, three dimensional evocations of the sea, Linda Green's complex textile drawings and lots more.
52 tapestries in fact - 4 from each artist.

Jo McDonald

Please tell your friends, mention this exhibition on your blogs, facebook, twitter (speaking as a facebook/twitterphobe!) anywhere! It's going to a great show and is a very exciting development for us.


Amanda Gizzi

I've finally run out of Drima extra strong thread - this is the last warp cobbled together from several spools. I am on nº 5 of my series of 9 tapestries in the as yet untitled series. Will show a photo of them soon.

I'll have some very exciting tapestry related news to announce shortly - watch this space!

christiane wilhelm

Father Christmas called bringing with him this beautiful pot by Christiane Wilhelm. It came from an amazing gallery we've discovered right on the edge of the Aveyron and the Cantal -La galerie du Don du Fel . It's a stunning contemporary building in a spectacular location and it's truly in the middle of nowhere. Despite this they have 45,000 visitors per year. That's how good it is!