New Exhibition

This is a very roundabout way of trying to get an image on Facebook. The next exhibition I am involved in opens on the 28th April and includes artists with many different talents from the South West of the UK.
There is another poster with more work on it but haven't managed to convert that into a usable file yet.

Pipe cleaner people

I haven't been doing any making for a while, now back to doing a bit though this will be slowed down by an operation to rectify carpel tunnel syndrome tomorrow. I am making pipe cleaner people for my second piece for the Bristol Guild exhibition in April. I have the idea for the completed piece in my head, just hope its going to come out looking good and not a bit naff.

Guild exhibition

I did my stint of stewarding for the exhibition yesterday and we close on Saturday. We have had so many lovely and encouraging comments from visitors, and we have all had reasonably good sales which is also encouraging and of course one of the reasoning for showing work in the first place. So all in all a very successful venture which hopefully we can repeat sometime in the future.

Sea glass

Some of my favourite sea glass

 I have been sorting out my sea glass collection to make some more small wall hangings.

The glass has been collected during holidays, its quite hard to find some of the colours, mostly they are green or white but I have found very pale greens, blues and turquoise which are good colours for summer. As you can see I have some lovely chunks in turquoise and pale blue a very small pieces of pink, purple and dark blue. 

I had several in the Guild exhibition which have all sold so I am making a couple more.

These are the hangings, the warp is a nettle yarn from the Himalayas and most of the weft is silk with some dyed tops.

I will need to go away again soon to find some more, any excuse.

Guild Exhibition update

The final tally of visitors was 134, it really was a great day helped along by a glass of wine. Its so encouraging talking to visitors who are complimentary about your work. Its difficult sometimes to stand back and assess your own work so its a great boost to your confidence when you receive positive comments from people you don't know.

Bristol Guild opening day

Birch Trees

 The birch tree tapestry finally finished and hung. Took quite a few goes to get the mounting right but I am quite pleased with it now. The photo isn't great though.

Our private view at the Bristol Guild today went very well, despite the rain and wind we had over 120 visitors and lots of positive comments both about our work and the way the exhibition was laid out.
I took quite a few photos but most of them are rubbish hopefully you can get some idea of the gallery space and how it is laid out.
I will try and take some better ones next time I'm there.

Peace and quiet

A day off from setting up, opening and private view tomorrow. Hubby away so have the place to myself, just mulling around and generally being lazy. Whilst washing up I was entertained by feeding time for the baby sparrows and pied wagtails. How the parents keep track of babies who are hopping all over the garden I don't know. We also get a lot of neighbouring cats in out garden so I was at the ready to rush out and defend the fledglings.

Went out to the garden (I can smell the roses as soon as I open the door) to plant Cosmos and pick some roses and it started pouring with rain, the vagaries of our weather.  Where has summer gone, all the blousey?(not a word apparently) flowers, the roses and peonies have been hit hard by the rain and wind, so sad. I'm trying to pick them now as the come into flower.

Anyway time for lunch and then an afternoon spent weaving.

Guild exhibition - progress

We have spent the last two days hanging our exhibition at the Bristol Guild, its looking great but I am exhausted and we still have two days to go, though I suspect we will be mostly finished by the end of tomorrow. I hadn't realised how tiring it would be as I've only held exhibitions in my own studio before and it doesn't help that the gallery is up a lot of higgledy piggledy stairs my knees are complaining. Its a great space and the light is fantastic when you finally get there.

Looking forward to the opening on Saturday, remind me to take the camera.

Impressions of Skye

At last a picture of my weaving, this is the last piece for the exhibition at the Bristol Guild.
I don't think it is going to be finished, we are starting setting up on Tuesday ready for the private view next Saturday. The tapestry is a little over a quarter finished and I am not very good at sitting all day weaving.

Birch trees

Progress

Have got about as far up the loom as I can possibly weave, three of the five trees are now finished, one more back ground tree to complete and then on to the main one. Would have liked the trees to have been taller but not possible on the size loom I have. Then again I shall be quite pleased to get this piece finished, there will still be a lot of work to do once it is off loom.

Guild Exhibition

Lichen

Another one of my sitting in front of the telly pieces.
Circular weaving stitched on to an African strip cloth
background.

Baskets

This is a picture of a little basket I made out of paper covered wire, its about the size of a two pence piece.
By coincidence I've also done a 5" square piece of weaving in similar colours based on the tree lichens.
I've made some more baskets which I am attaching to the weaving and hoping to add lichens.

I had great fun making the baskets, I got the idea from a book by Janet Edmonds 'Three Dimensional Embroidery' which is full of amazing stuff.