c.v. & exhibitions
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My work is designed to give a sense of place,time and mood, but with paring down to a simple design element - the relationship of form and colour.
I like to utilise to the full the medium in which I work - rough linen fabrics, raw & torn edges, visible stitches - and combine this with an overlay of dyes and paints, flashing, and paper. By recycling antique linens, cottons, old lace and books, this gives a connection to the past and to my work. Implications of the past are a recurring theme - the traces of people who went before us - their stories and places.
Our history - the marks we leave behind us, who we were and what we achieved - make us the people we are today.
Member of QuiltArt - the international exhibiting group since 2000.
| 2023 Material Evidence. The Hub. Sleaford. U.K. Following the Thread. - The Cloth Factory, Luxembourg. 2021 Surface Design Assoc. Beyond Boundaries, High Five Art Baarle. & Galerie Zone. The Netherlands. 2020 Fine Art Festival, Kranj. Slovenia. Material Evidence. Fuga Gallery, Hungary. 2019 11th International Textile Miniatures. Lithuania. QuiltArt Material Evidence & Traces - Touring UK & Europe 2018 European Quilt Triennial, Heidelberg, Germany. Wide Horizons VI, France, Italy & Germany, Made in Europe 11 Celle, Germany 2017 ETHNO Vilnius, Lithuania Fine Art Quilt Masters, F O Q Birmingham UK (highly commended) Atout Fil, Chatillon, Paris (invitational) 2016 Lasting Impressions. Whistler Art Gallery, Lowell, USA. Beaujolais & Vendee France 2015 QuiltArt 30 - Dialogues - Touring exhibition - Europe 6th European Quilt Triennale 2014 European Art Quilts VIII 013 Heidelberg, Germany, Quilt Triennale 2012 Art Quilt Elements 2012. Wayne. USA. AcCENTS. UK Art Quilts. Paducah. USA. 2011 7th Biennial - Vanish/Survive. Arka, Vilnius, Lithuania A Slice of Quilt Art - Hungary & the Netherlands 2010 Quilt Art 25. Touring Europe. Museum of Lodz. Poland. Stidoc. Textiel Festival. Netherlands. 2009 Hands All Around XXV. Travelling USA. 2005 - Quiltart QA20 Solo exhibition, Guildhall, Bath, UK 2004 Off the Wall, Delta Studios. Scotland 2003 Contemporary Art Quilts 2003. UK 2002 Six Continents of Quilts. Museum of Arts & Design, New York USA Quilt Expo VII. Barcelona. Spain. 2001 Hands All Around XVII. Houston. USA Young British Designers. World Quilt Show. USA. Contemporary Quilts. Devon Guild of Craftsmen. UK 2000 6th Carrefour Exhibition. France. 1999 Creations & Savoir Faire. Paris. France | 2018 Quilt Art Nebraska Layered Voices, Oklahoma, USA 2017 Surface Design Assoc. Fibre Art VIII European Art Quilts Finale, Nederlands Made in Europe, travelling USA 2016 Taiwan International Exhibition British Quilters Guild. Wales 2015 QuiltArt - Small Talk - Touring Exhibition - Europe 2014 TexpoArt - Romania Quilt Art Expressions - touring USA 2013 Quilt Art in Russia - Tsaritsyno, Moscow 2012 European Art Quilts VII Voices. Devon Guild of Craftsmen. UK. 2011-2 Quilt National 11 - USA SAQA. Creative Force - USA 2010 SAQA. Wide Horizons 11. France. Art Quilt Elements 2010. Philadelphia. USA 2009 Studio Art Quilt Association - Reflections 2008 Wide Horizons '08. Studio Art Quilt Europe. 2007- Quiltart 22 - Denmark, Europe, Korea. Solo exhibition, Lyon France. 2005 Textile 05 Kaunas Art Biennial, Lithuania 2004 2nd European Triennial - Riga, Latvia. 2001 art of the STITCH 2001. Pall Mall Galleries. London. UK European Quilt Art Quilt 2001. Quiltart Moving On 2000 Out of Africa. UK . 1998 A Stitch in Time. Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead. UK 1997 1st prize Scottish Championships 1st Prize Quilters Guild Great Britain & others awards.
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