to painting a fabric background for a new project.
After spending a day at The Guildhall I was inspired by the beautiful building and am thinking along the lines of making a range of textile cards.
But to start with I need a background…
at The Guildhall.
I spent a fantastic day at The Windsor & Royal Borough Museum demonstrating how I create my designs. With my sketchbooks I was able to explain every tiny detail that went into each of my projects and why it takes hours and hours to finally reach the end results.
at The Windsor & Royal Borough Museum.
As a local artist I was delighted to be asked to lend three of my pieces to go on display to complement the museum’s historic Craft and Design section!
I chose a colourful mask made from torn fabrics and hand painted voile, a 90th Birthday Memory Book and a richly embroidered casket in which to keep precious memorabilia.
and I’m not altogether sure where it came from but that really doesn’t matter. I shuffled a few of the torn squares around, ironed them in place and seem to have created a castle rising up through a river mist. The piece now needs some stitch to give definition…