As the first showing of my quilt in the Text on Textile exhibit at Houston ended today I guess it’s now ok to post a picture of it on my blog. I find it very frustrating as it is always almost impossible to find many good images of the exhibition on the web and [...]
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You may remember that I posted about taking photos in the rain. We did have an ulterior motive for doing so. I sent the photographs to Lark Crafts in the hope of them being accepted into the new book Art Quilt Portfolio: People & Portraits being prepared. The original date for hearing something was [...] This morning I received a FedEx parcel. It was much smaller than I was expecting. Funny how the mind plays tricks on you. I had forgotten how small the quilt was. This is what came out of the parcel: The packed up quilt is almost smaller than the exhibition catalogues that were included in [...] The neighbours probably think we are losing our marbles. It’s not the normal thing to do – hang portraits up on the outside walls of the house. Especially as it’s been raining most of the day. We kept nipping in and out between the showers. Why? We were trying to get some decent photos [...] The first news I received this morning on opening my eyes was that my entry for the Text on Textiles juried exhibition has been chosen as one of 26 finalists. DH&PA was reading email in the small hours of the night. That was good news at the end of a week that hasn’t exactly [...] I uploaded my entry to the Text on Textiles exhibition a couple of days ago – with only a week left until closing. I was assigned artist and quilt number 8. Last year I was artist #39 and quilt #149. Unless a lot of quilters are leaving everything to the very last minute or [...] … according to the Daily Mail. They are reporting results published in the Journal of Public Health by the University of Glasgow. The results of the study show that all hobbies, particularly those that promote creativity are good for our well-being. It would seem that quilting helps your cognitive, creative and emotional well-being. Just [...] here on the blog for reasons I mentioned in my previous post, but I had a very productive weekend. Last Thursday was a public holiday here in Germany, so I took the Friday off too and made a long weekend. I spent a large part of each day in the studio and have finished [...] This is a question I have been asking myself for a few weeks now. It’s been quite some time since I posted anything, which is of course the one thing you are not supposed to do on a blog if you want a loyal readership. But since this blog is about my textile art [...] Having done a lot of exercises looking at artists who work in series and thinking about my own quilts I like best I realised a few things. I looked at the quilts I feel most happy about to see if there are themes lurking in among them. Two themes I can find without much [...] |
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