Memento Mori

This weekend I will be having a little exhibition in my studio of work I did 10-15 years ago inspired by my research into my  local cemetery and the maiden's garlands of St Stephens Fylingdales.  I don't often get this work out so this might be your only chance to see it if you haven't done so before.
Its part of our Spring Art Fair Event at The Hearth. Information  HERE  I will be there both days...
These photos were taken this week as I started to stage the work.

Blue Book

I am teaching a fabric books workshop this weekend so it has given me the opportunity to seek out some from the past to show the students. This one was done for a drawing exhibition a few years ago. It is a concertina and it was suspended from the ceiling in the original exhibition with the blue sewn line going all the way through it.

Sleeve Notes

I have just been to Italy for a week and whenever I go abroad I seek out the textiles like a ferret! There was a display of costumes from the Cavalieri di Casala in a room behind the Tourist Information in Arezzo which I found inspiring, particularly the embellishment of the sleeves. They are worn every year at an age old pageant that takes place in the town square. I am going to make something similar to that red belt!

Joe the Quilter

For those of you who might have heard the story of Joe the Quilter, the British quilt stamper who was murdered for his quilt money in 1826. Here are some pictures of his cottage which was rebuilt at Beamish, an open air museum not far from where I live. The heather rush roof was particularly beautiful.Beamish also have examples of his beautiful whole cloth quilt designs in their stores. Here is a link to the whole story
https://museumcrush.org/piecing-together-the-lost-georgian-cottage-of-murdered-joe-the-quilter/

MY studio

My studio today. Lots of new projects on the go....

Pinned

I double page spread pinned and ready to be put in a wallet book.

Winifred

A space has come up on my Winifred Nicholson course on Saturday 16th March. The course costs £50 including materials and takes place at the Hearth, Horsley, Northumberland 10-4

Winifred Nicholson is one of my favourite painters and I especially love her still lives of vases and pots of flowers in domestic settings or on sills with a landscape outside. In this workshop you will work from one of Winifred’s still lives ( chosen by you) and build up a textile collage which does not copy the painting exactly but does capture the the colour, composition and mood. This is a challenge, so you will be working quite small, but I have taught this class several times and the students always produce beautiful and interesting work. I will guide you all the way!
If you want to take up this place please contact me through my website www.mandypattullo.co.uk