It's the first week of the Drawing With Thread exhibition and my work was chosen to be on the promotional poster which I am really pleased about.

Installation week at Shire Hall Gallery

After a very busy few weeks (well perhaps a bit more than a few) getting three new pieces of work finished for the new exhibition at The Shire Hall Gallery and as usual still framing them the day before, they were all finally wrapped and ready for the exhibition, so I finally made the journey to Stafford this morning. If you have never visited the Gallery it is in a lovely old building that used to be the old court rooms in Stafford. The Exhibition Drawing with Thread is a joint curated exhibition of six textile artists and it opens on Saturday 5th of March. It promises to be a great exhibition. Kim Gould the curator showed me around and I had a sneaky preview of some of the other artists work as it was being prepared for hanging. Debbie Smythe had started work on her installation and will be filmed while working to show visitors how she creates her work.

The exhibition is on until the 1st of May and will be well worth a visit. The web site is .http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/museumandgalleries/shirehallgalleries/Exhibitions/

Embroidery Magazine

The article Jo Hall wrote about my work is now in the current Jan/feb edition of Embroidery Magazine. It is a six page interview and looks great, I am really pleased with it.

Decisions

It's always a relief when choices have been made and a new piece of work moves through the planning and experimenting stages and finally starts taking shape. I have just finished painting the background for my next piece of work and worked out my colours so here I go at long last!!!!

The Beetroot Tree

After an early morning start the snow held off and I managed to deliver my work to the Beetroot Tree Gallery in Draycott, Derbyshire, where I am their featured artist for the next eight weeks. It is a lovely Gallery with a great cafe, so if you are in the area come along and take a look.

The Beetroot Tree

I must officially promote my next exhibition as the featured artist at the Beetroot Tree Gallery in Derbyshire which starts on the 8th of January. I am taking my work up on Friday and it will be exciting to see the gallery as I haven't been there before and they are very supportive of Applied Art and Designer Craft.

2011

It's now officially 2011 and the end of the Pop up shop exhibition which I really enjoyed. I was due to collect my work during the Christmas snow which was really stressful as I didn't want to leave it in the shop over the Christmas holidays. Luckily as the snow slightly subsided I was able to meet Mike from the New Hope Trust and retrieve it all. So now Christmas is a fond memory and my children are safely back at school I am about to embark on a new piece of work, this I find the most difficult time choosing what picture out of the ones I have planned in my mind shall I do next. I can put it off no longer decisions have to be made!!!