twenty twenty

My work is at Twenty Twenty until June. The driftwood sculptures are by Kevan Hopson.

Fiona Rutherford has been writing a blog about her trip to Australia for the Tapestry 2008 symposium.

Lime tree - landscape

See Jo Barker's 'Dappled Circle - Orange' here and Sue Lawty's 'Line' here .

exhibitions...

'Interwoven' at the Grace Barrand Design Centre has finished but you can see pictures of the tapestries here .

The Stroudwater Textile Festival is on until the 21st May.

cloth and culture NOW continues at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia until June 1st.

Thanks to Jilly Edwards both for her warm welcome and the seemingly effortless hard work that goes into running her lovely gallery space in Exeter - BSW Studios!

My work will be on show next at Twenty Twenty in Much Wenlock from Saturday 3rd May.

jennie moncur

See Jennie Moncur's newly completed tapestry here.

happy anniversary

Anne Madden and Louis le Brocquy celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary today (and also on april 8th!). There's a beautiful picture of them here. I spent some time today looking at le Brocquy's tapestries and marvelling at how well he (a non weaver) understands how to design for the medium. I wonder how much is down to his skill and how much to the weaver's. I suppose it must be an equal balance.

A day out in Albi

7 tapestries finished, parcelled up and sent to the framer... What a relief! I'm having a short break now and am going to catch up on everything that I've let slide over the past couple of months.

We had a long overdue day off/out in Albi on Friday which was lovely despite persistant rain. I love the mellow, faded beauty of so many French towns and villages. I guess you could call it benign neglect though I do worry that the whole place will just fall down one day. Our local town, Villefranche de Rouergue is beautiful but crumbling. 'Operation 100 façades' has been launched to stop the degeneration but there are very many more than 100 buildings in urgent need of repair.