Pathways
2nd - 15th September
Private View - Saturday 6th, 14:00 - 16:00, including a poetry reading by Poet Jonathan Ward at 14:30.
Open daily 11:00 - 16:30
Closed Sundays. Free Admission.
Drawn together for Pathways, five visual artists and a poet show works arising from immersion in the landscape.
Exhibitors:
Diamonds
Jill Sharpe
30th September - 11th October
Open daily 10:00 - 16:00
Closed Sunday. Free admission
An exhibition of work mostly created in the past five years made using the traditional English Paper Piecing technique. Working on an isometric grid and with careful fabric and colour choices I have designed original pieces of work. These are constructed entirely by hand using the method which involves cutting precisely sized papers over which the chosen fabric is tacked. The pieces are then joined together using whip stitch and the pattern is built up gradually to create the whole. When complete the papers are removed and the piece tacked to wadding and backing to create a surface ready for quilting. Threads are chosen and a stitch pattern that enhances the piece is used to complete the piece.
The works average 500 individual pieces and take several hundred hours to make. It is often remarked that I must be very patient to make work like this but I am certainly not a patient person. I love stitching, it is part of me, and I am persistent and I enjoy the process of developing a pattern and realising a design I have created
