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Looking Back, Looking Forward 2020-21
After a year of change as we spent much of our time at home, going out to our local neighbourhoods for exercise and leisure became the norm. I spent a lot of my time cycling or walking my local parks,...
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Lausanne to Beijing International Fiber Art Biennale
North Westerly has won an excellence award and is currently on show at the Lausanne to Beijing International Fiber Art Biennale. Thrilled to be exhibiting in this stunning exhibition which opened on a...
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Where did the last month go?
Where did the last month go? The first day of March, St David's Day in Wales and Spring is round the corner.I was delighted to feature in the Selvedge Magazine Blog on 18th February in an article about...
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Tell A Story
Tell Me A Story:As we come out of a lockdown it seem fitting that we are drawn to our outdoor spaces and meeting friends in our gardens. Thinking about the blossom today as I work on my fourth...
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Spring Cleaning
May is here yet judging by recent temperatures it does not feel like it. We have been tidying up and getting organised. Not least because an exciting filming project was going on in my workshop (more...
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New Book:Embroidering the Everyday
Our connection to the ‘everyday’ things around us has played a big part in all our lives in the last year.as we have made changes to how we work and interact with each other. The unexpected...
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The Not So Everyday: Back in the World
I was delighted to get back in a studio and teaching last week at West Dean College with a short course 'Drawing from the Everyday.' There is nothing 'everyday' about the wonderful landscape and the...
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Found and For The Love of Gaia at Festival of Quilts
This last year has been one of reflection, creative re-use of materials as well as a response to locality and place. It is therefore appropriate that I find my work being exhibited in two galleries...
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Following a busy time exhibiting in 'Found', with Art Textiles:Made in Britain at the Festival of Quilts last week I was delighted to have taken part in a live interview with Fibre Art Takes Two. We...
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Making Connections Course with Fibre Arts Takes Two
Thrilled to announce that enrolments for Making Connections - my beautifully crafted course with Fibre Arts Take Two are open.The team at Fibre Arts Takes walks you through home surroundings and into...
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Embroidering the Everyday a happy publication day
Today sees the publication of my new bookEmbroidering the Everyday. I am grateful to all the artists who have contributed and whose wonderful works have enriched the narrative. Thanks also goes to the...
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Counting My Blessings
I have needed to focus on close family in recent weeks and am equally having to make some tough, potentially life-changing decisions about how I work in the future as a result. I am fit and well but...
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Handmade Chelsea
Over the last few weeks my focus has been on family and will remain so. Considerable changes have happened in my life and work. I am still able to work on some projects so am very pleased to be able...
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Places, Spaces, Traces and the Shipping Forecast on LV21
I am delighted to be exhibiting exhibition a selected collection of new work on LV21 in Gravesend. “Places, Spaces, Traces reflects on my Romani heritage and the commonalities we have as people, the...
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Looking Back. Looking Forward
This has been a year of extreme contrasts. and even more uncertainty, on both a work and personal level. The realities of earning a living as an artist has its ups and downs, working on projects,...
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Places, Spaces and Traces at the R-Space Gallery, Lisburn
I am delighted to be exhibiting at the R-Space Gallery in Lisburnfrom the 8th JanuaryPlaces, Spaces, Traces first shown at LV21 in December has travelled across the water to Northern Ireland before it...
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The Shipping Forecast
During the last few years I have been working developing new projects which have evolved from my research for the commissioned exhibition Gypsy Maker 4:Places, Spaces, Traces, for the Romani Cultural...
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A Traveller Stilled..Exhibitions and Workshops
Two years ago at the beginning of the pandemic I talked about my work and exhibitions coming to a halt in the context of Gypsy Maker 4 with the Romani Cultural and Arts Company. The blog was called A...
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Making Connections
Over the last few months I have been exploring new ways of working and 'making connections' with people in different ways due to a change of circumstances which require me to stay closer to home much...
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Exhibition in Antwerp Places, Spaces, Traces
I am pleased to announce my exhibtion and installation Places, Spaces, Traces will be on show on to Sint Anna-ten-Drieën from 19th June to the 25 September.Supported by the organisation Anna 3, the...
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