Textile Workshop based on Harry Ousey's work

Glossop branch hosted a workshop at Stockport Memorial Art Gallery on Saturday, 3 February.  The Gallery is currently holding an exhibition of Harry Ousey's work and the paintings were the basis of the workshop.  

Remember the fantastic panel made by our branch members last year?

It was included in the exhibition and showed just what can be achieved by translating a painting into textiles.

About a dozen  people arrived to take part in the workshop and, with Liz Smith's expert guidance, they each selected a painting to translate into a stitched textile.  Here is some of their work:-

We took along our own stash of fabric space-dyed by Christine Bardsley and some of the participants chose a piece to use in their stitched work.

Everyone really enjoyed the day and lots of questions were asked about our branch, and what we get up to.  Fingers crossed that we may get a couple of new members!