Daily Drawing :June

Daily Drawing Update : July

Drawing Tuesdays : Petrie and Serpentine

Blogging after a long, long break  is hard , where do you start to  record  what you've  done  ( which is loads!! )  I wish there was a blogging app on my phone  as I mainly take photos on my  phone now and post them regularly on Instagram   and occasionally  on Facebook.  And the 'reflective'   stuff is partly carried out in sketchbooks now. But I do like to 'mine' my blog  to find what I was doing years ago so I feel  that I need to update it now and  then . 

So as it's a  Drawing Tuesday, even though  I haven't been  for a couple of weeks, it seems appropriate  to start off with the last  couple of outings. 

The Petrie  Museum was my choice  so I felt obliged to go ( not that it's a hardship, I love that place  as you can see from previous visits here, here and here     

 I've got a thing about different shaped vessels at the moment ( so what's new! ) and had  a gift of carpenters pencils  in  earth colours to try!   

  So much to choose from , love these hedgehogs !

 Earlier  in  July  I'd  gone to the Serpentine,  drawing the  slates of the Pavilion   and fitting in  seeing  Faith Ringgold  and  Luchita Hurtado   exhibitions. What inspiring women!!

A Summer of Exhibiting

 If it's  been a bit quiet  here it's because I've  been busy working towards  ' Meanwhile...' exhibition from EDAM  course. Only a couple of weeks to go ( RK Burt Gallery, 2-4  July) and the postcard/PV invitation has been printed and I'm thrilled  that  one of my  map tracing experiments were used on the back.  I'm still  working out how I'm going to display  them , it could go to wire...( but then  I've always needed a deadline to focus the mind)   

 And suddenly ( or should that be meanwhile?!)  there's a lot of other opportunities over the summer to show  my work .  Today I went  Creek Creative  to see   Open Exhibition on the theme  of ' The Journey'   and was pleased to see they'd hung  both of the pieces  I produced while on CQ retreat  in  Grasmere ( still haven't blogged about that but I did write a short article for the newsletter).  It's on until 23rd June, some interesting work on show and I highly recommend the café.   

Looking forward to  exhibiting there in September  with  CQ Kent group 'Edgy Stitchers'.  

 Also on  in the first week of July ( 4th to 7th)    is   the 'Other Art Fair'  and I hope to squeeze in a visit  , particularly  so I can see the  artworks produced for the "Tiny Sketchbook Project"  

 Initially dismayed  by just how small it was and the very thin paper, in the end I really enjoyed  making "The Tiny Islands of Sewing Land"  and stitching it on the train. The poor quality  of the paper proved an advantage when I took rubbings of the stitching.  

  My contribution to the 7th European Quilt Triennial " Wind me in the  Sea" ( also mainly stitched on the train)  is currently being exhibited  ( until 30 October)  at Textile Zentrum Haslach,  Austria . The catalogue has been reproduced online here  and the exhibition has been promoted as one of the highlights of  the European Textile Network conference in July.  I'll have to wait until next year  to see it, hopefully at Festival of Quilts 2020.

 I visited  the quilt show at Hever   several times  over the years , sometimes with Ian (  the sloe gin we made from sloes gathered walking back to the train  we labelled 'Hever' ). This show is sadly no more but a new event  has been initiated  this year  at Lullingstone Castle . The organisers  wanted to showcase as many quilts as possible  so it seemed a good opportunity  to  show  an old favourite  ''City Girls Dream of the Sea' ( above)   which I hand stitched 20 years ago recovering from surgery ( sadly it's too big to   display in our current house)   Also to finally show 'Indigo Mine'  which was in the Salon Des Refuses for the CQ at 10 exhibition.

 Finally, I don't have anything in this years  Festival of Quilts  in August but I'm delighted that 'Birchington Breakwaters"  was selected for SAQA 'Made In Europe 3' .  It will  open at the West Country Quilt and Textile show in Bristol  29-31  August . It's a really nice show so a good excuse to go - on my own this time  as it's on at the same time as  the  Hop Festival .  After Bristol , the exhibition will tour to venues in France, Netherlands and Germany in 2020.