Marvellous workshop at Chelford

Ann and Judi recently attended a one-day workshop led by Bobby Britnell and held by Chelford branch.  The title of the workshop was 'Accessible Drawing and Designing Techniques'.

The workshop showed ways of arriving at designs for original pieces of textile work, mainly using sketchbooks and graphite.  Bobby offered lots of advice and discussed ideas of how the designs could be translated into textile art.

Here are images of some of the work done during the day:-

Bobby is a very experienced and successful textile artist who runs popular courses at her home in Shropshire.  Take a look at her website:
www.bobbybritnell.co.uk

There is a direct link to her website on this blog - look on the right-hand side under 'Textile artists and groups'.

Embroiderers' Guild Exhibition: Page 17

EMBROIDERERS' GUILD EXHIBITION –

 

PAGE 17

 

So what books do you have on your bookshelf? Do you like fiction or fact?  Do you warm to a frothy Barbara Cartland romance; grip the edge of your seat with a gritty John Grisham thriller, or lose yourself in a Philippa Gregory history?  Whatever you read, the words will form pictures in your head.  Now The Embroiderers' Guild is proud to introduce "Page 17" – a specially created exhibition of textile artistry where each piece takes a book as its inspiration.  Seen for the first time at Knit & Stitch London, EG has bought together a unique group of artists who bring words to life.  This is a one off and exciting display of work, with pieces from well-known textile artists, new names and many members from around the country.  By using techniques as diverse as machine and hand stitching, mixed media and felting (to name a few), you will see mischievous monkeys and strutting chickens, mathematical Pi and electrical circuits, Greek tragedy, Jane Austen and Haiku poetry.  Using colour and form, design and texture, members have created works which span the contemporary, the literal and the symbolic.  Your imagination will be intrigued as it follows the thread across the surface, and marvels at how the combination of cloth and thread is both a medium and metaphor, bringing to life images hidden amongst words.  Visit the Embroiderers Guild stand and see if your favourite book is on display.

 

Knit & Stitch Alexandra Palace, London 11-15 October 2017

Knit & Stitch Harrogate 23-26 November 2017​

 

 

TEMPTING TEXTILES

Forthcoming event: Glossop and District Embroiderers' Guild


Tempting Textiles 30th September 2017 11am- 3pm


A wide variety of textile items and books for sale, a raffle and stitching activities for all ages.


Lymefield Garden Centre
Broadbottom Hyde
SK14 6AG
www.lymefield.com

A Sense of Place- Landscape paintings by Harry Ousey at the Nicholson Museum and Art Gallery,
Leek. 2^nd September-7^th October 2017

Harry Ousey, born in 1915 in Manchester, is considered an important representative in the British 20th century art scene.
Harry, an abstract artist, was inspired by the dry stone walls and quarry faces of Derbyshire and seascapes of Cornwall before moving to France in 1976. His work was included in an exhibition at Salford in 1948, with the pieces chosen by L S Lowry and numerous solo exhibitions followed in London in the 1960’s. In 2015 Salford Art Gallery marked the centenary of the painter's birth exhibiting many of his ‘lost works’ which will be on display in the Nicholson Gallery.

On display at the exhibition preview was a collaborative textile panel, ‘To make the Landscape Sing the Day’ based on one of Ousey’s landscape paintings. This was completed by sixteen members of the Glossop and District branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild earlier this year. This was its first outing in a public gallery and it created great interest and lively discussion amongst the guests.

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