Leeds City Art Gallery and train stitching

There's something about seeing a favourite artwork for the first time in the flesh  after only seeing it in  print/on the web.  My treat on Wednesday while in Leeds for  a meeting  was seeing Paul Nash's 'The Shore(1923) ' in the City Art Gallery  in the 20 minutes I had  spare before catching my train. I'd gone to see 'Winter Sea' again  but I think I have a false memory  of seeing it there as the postcard I have is from York!

 

  

'The Shore' and various other works  based on Dymchurch, gave me a lot of inspiration on compositions when I was working on 'Bexhill Breakwaters'

 

On the train home, stitching with my snarled, enlarged tangle of threads ( it keeps getting added to!) pulling out colours for one of the journal quilts made of scraps inspired by Rydal, thinking of the  main type of sewing I do on trains, planning my indigo vat this summer