Today we went into Frankfurt to visit 2 exhibitions at the Schirn Gallery. The one which I enjoyed the most was of works by E. W. Nay from the 1960s. These are his late works and represent a change of style marked by his participation in Documenta III in 1964. For that he produced [...]
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I thought the recent email from Quilting Arts gave very good advice. Since I can’t link to it I’m posting the text here for those of you who don’t get the emails. The advice is from Frances Holliday Alford. Embellishment should be used in the same way we garnish food. It is important to [...] I read this on the BBC website today: Knitting can delay memory loss It also says engaging in a hobby like reading a book, making a patchwork quilt or even playing computer games can delay the onset of dementia, a US study suggests. Watching TV however does not count – and indeed spending significant [...] My next assignment for the C&G course is to make a small piece of patchwork from recycled fabric. It could be a piece of clothing or a household item. I’ve decided to use an old pillowcase, which probably belonged to my Grandma. When we were emptying my Dad’s flat last summer I brought back [...] We went to the Schirn Gallery in Frankfurt on Sunday to visit 2 exhibitions. One was of the so-called période vache of René Magritte. It shows a series if paintings from 1948 for an exhibition conceived as a provocation of and an assault on the Parisian public. I can’t say that I really found [...] I am currently taking time out from doing my C&G course to take a class at Quilt University on Fabric Portraits. I’m taking my C&G at DesignMatters. Both are distance learning courses. Both courses are completely online. I never meet my tutor face to face and they never get to see my work in [...] Unfortunately in English we don’t have many nouns with gender specific forms so in English the title of the exhibition at the Schirn gallery in Frankfurt has to be Women Impressionists – not so concise. We went to see the exhibition last Thursday, which was the May Day public holiday here. We thought that [...] Over the last week I have been following the debate on the Guardian newspaper website that has been triggered by the publication of Delia Smith’s latest book “How to Cheat at Cooking” and her new television series on the BBC. The most amusing article was the Delia Taste Test. The whole debate has since [...] I was browsing the internet as you do – me I’m always googling words for inspiration, both text and images – and came across this “what if” blog. That really made me smile because if one thing stuck in my mind from my Self Expressions class with Myrna at QU it was to keep [...] On the last day of 2007 I discovered this: The Miniature Earth I should have picked it up a few weeks ago but it got past me. I’m not very diligent about reading all my emails – especially those that come regularly. Perhaps it’s appropriate that I found it today. Food for thought to [...] |
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