Xmas Open Studios

Our Christmas Fair at The Hearth at Horsley will go ahead this Saturday and Sunday 11am - 4pm. The roads are easily passable with care and the Cafe looks pretty and cosy with all the homemade decorations. Check out our web site for all the exhibitors. You have been stuck inside all week so PLEASE COME and support your local rural arts centre

Sewing Equipment

The North East is covered in deep deep snow which means you have to amuse yourself close to home and within walking distance. Yesterday I had a good morning at Northern Print making some screen prints on paper and fabric of some drawings I have been doing of sewing machines. I didn't like the finished pieces much but I love the details do will probably cut them up.

Pale and Interesting

3 new small textile collages referencing the past. For sale from my OPEN STUDIO at The Hearth at Horsley this Saturday and Sunday 4th and 5th December.

Ouseburn Open Studios

I am showing monotypes like this one at COBALT as part of the Ouseburn Open Studios event. Don't let the snow put you off. go and see many fantastic artists in their studios tommorrow only ( 28th November).

Open Studios Event!

My studio will be open on December 4th and 5th as advertised above. There is lots to see with guest artists exhibiting wood carving , proggy mats, jewellery, and there will be honey, soaps and Christmas wreaths for sale too. All of us are working hard to make new things for you to see and hopefully to buy as Christmas gifts. See the Hearth web site for more images and information under "Whats on." (www.thehearth.co.uk).

Threads of Feeling

I have been in London for the weekend. Visited some excellent shows .

Check out Louise Bourgeois fabric works at the Hauser and Wirth gallery in Saville Row. When you go to their web site they have a really good slide show of everything that is exhibited.

www.hauserwirth.com

The Museum of Everything www.museumofeverything.com is showing Peter Blake's collection of circus ephemera and the marvellous taxidermy art of Walter Potter. The Museum is in Primrose Hill so there is good shopping too, we had wonderful Russian food at Trojka.

Best of all was Threads of Feeling at the Foundling Museum ( www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk). Very poignant exhibition of textile tokens left by 18th century mothers as they handed over and renounced their babies to the Foundling Hospital. Ribbons and cockades, embroideries, prints and textile fragments pinned inside the original entry ledgers with excellent interpretative boards.

Deer

I found this hand embroidered image ( on to linen) of an english setter in a flea market. It has inspired me to start doing line embroideries of woodland animals. I am still using vintage log cabin as a base for most of my work. I like having to confine my ideas into the boundaries of one square.