After 3 days ecodyeing at Festival of Quilts, I seemed to spend most of the remaining 2 days talking to people I met and took surprisingly few photos. The quilt I wished I'd made/ would like to have taken home was La Houle Bleue by Ann Worringer in the ' Diversity in Europe' Gallery. I nearly missed it as most of the other quilts around it did not entice me in.
The 2 gallery's I enjoyed most were Christine Chester's ' Fragility of memory' with it's excellent poignant use of the disintegrating surfaces of paper lamination and the varied and original work in the 'Through Your Hands' Maker-Making-Made. I was too absorbed in the work to take photos in either gallery apart from the keys of Susan Lenz ( who gave very interesting lecture - nice to meet her again)
For the rest of the galleries and the competition quilts, looking through my photos it's obvious that the eco-dying and thinking how I might use them for my Cwilt Cmyru 'Cynefin' pieces influenced my choices. They all seem to be either about marks (particularly breakdown printing) or green/plant related!
In Fine Art Quilt Masters, I liked the pieces by Audrey Critchley and Leah Higgins ( above) and in CQ 'Elements' the colours of Liesbeth Williams ( below)
The Crossing Oceans 'Nature' gallery was a bit tucked way but a rewarding find - the several variations of printed and stitched olive trees by Dijanne Cevaal glowed.
Competition quilt favrourites: green quilts by Kate Dowty ( above) and Uta Lenk (below)
Interpretations of grasslands by Pia Puonti ( above) and Sandra Grusd ( below)
Vibrant monoprints by Paula Rafferty ( above) and Sinead Smith ( below)
I didn't have anything in the show this year - if I'd had a piece in the Art Quilt section as usual I would have been gutted by how they were displayed, it was so dark.
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You're right about the area the Art Quilts were in Mags. It was really awful and I did have one in that section. The NEC's not the perfect venue so it seems someone has to suffer each year and this year it was our turn. Disappointing though. You and I took almost the same shot of Liesbeth's quilt :-) I missed some of the stands you've photographed so thank you for posting then here.
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