'Red Remnants' detail
'Red Remnants' 24" x 48"
'Red Ripples' 24" x 48"
'Red Ripples' detail
I'm thrilled to say that 2 pieces I made as guest artist with
Cwilt Cymru for an exhibition on the theme of 'Connection' will be at Forge Mill Needle Museum from 11 February to 9 March. I won't get a chance to see the exhibition there but will definitely be going to Llandidloes Minerva Gallery when it opens there in the summer. Both quilts were made from the same ragged red and cream strippy coverlet I use for
'Red Flotsam' and
'Nautical Dawn' ( which is currently touring as part of the
CQ Horizons exhibition). 'Red Remnants' literally used almost every last scrap from the previous 3 quilts!
I would love to have the opportunity to show all 4 pieces together at some point.
And the 'connection' to Wales? My first job after I graduated was doing grassland surveys of Gwent in 1993/94 and I lived in Abergavenny, joining the local quilt group, helping with the quilting on their Castle quilt which featured in the local paper. The start of both my botanical career and quilting journey.
4 comments:
Congratulations, well deserved!!
Lovely to see all these pieces together. I hope you get an opportunity to show them altogether at some point - difficult when some of them go to a single show and then don't come home for 8 months!!
Best wishes
Chrisse
Ah, so thrifty, that reuse of every last scrap ... giving that old quilt another nine lives - and sending it off on new adventures. Surely there will be a time when all four are reunited.
Congrats! Gorgeous work, and as Margaret says, I like that you have given an old quilt such vivid new life.
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