garden/jardin

I've just written this statement for the upcoming show at the tour.

"Living in Salabert I have an acute sense of the seasons, the weather, nature and the passage of time. We are surrounded by tracks and lanes where we can walk and observe the year as it unfolds. From my kitchen window I can see our weather coming to us from the Lot. I feel connected.

My circles, rings, spots and stripes come from this sense of connection. Shapes repeated over and over, always subtley different which mark, physically and symbolically the passage of time.

The technique of tapestry suits these ideas, enduring as it has done, almost unchanged, since the time of the Egyptians. Methodical, slow, rhythmic."



Vivre à Salabert donne un sens aigu des saisons, du temps qu’il fait, de la nature, du passage du temps. Nous sommes comblés par des chemins et des petites routes tranquilles où on peut se promener et observer le déroulement de l’année. De la fenêtre de la cuisine je peux voir la pluie et le soleil venir depuis le Lot. Je me sens connectée.

Mes cercles, anneaux, pois et bandes de couleur sont issus de ces connexions. Des formes souvent répétées mais chaque fois subtilement différentes, qui marquent physiquement et symboliquement le passage du temps.

La technique de la tapisserie convient bien à ces idées et le fait depuis le temps des Egyptians, presqu’inchangée. Méthodique, lente, rythmique.

seeds

I'm collaging again - I want to make a couple of new pieces for the opening show at the tour de Montsalès at the end of this month. The above is a little sample to see how small I can go with my circles - those are under a centimetre. Expect fresh Spring greens!

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.