Pictures from an exhibition.

In this thirtieth year since Gordano Textiles  was founded we celebrate the Pearl anniversary.

The exhibition at Centrespace Gallery opened on Saturday 18th and will be open each day from 11am-4 pm.until it closes on Wednesday 22nd .

We hope you will come along and take a look in person to see the detail of the work displayed in these images.

Centrespace gallery is situated on St Leonards Lane  off Corn Street .

 

Working towards Hidden Gems.

Jenn had been exploring different ways of presenting her fish .She had used Contrado to print some of her photos of her free machined fish .One piece was on cotton ,the other on organza She also purchased some loosely woven scrim ,layering them together to give the illusion of fish beneath the river surface.

Some of her fish have been framed and she has made some ‘fish on sticks’ ,a little frivolity inspired by a free pattern by Anne Wood Handmade The wall hanging has presented some challenges and might be abandoned.

Janis has begun her embroidery course in Tredegar House which she is enjoying.

One of their first classes involved printing various marks on fabric

Some on black ,these look like flowers samples

Others on white

It looks like she had a lot of fun .The top image shows how she has already started to explore adding stitch.

She had also been exploring an idea of creating a companion piece to one she brought in August.We thought  she should continue.

She tried out some metallic threads in the bottom one but disliked the effect.

Debby motoring towards Hidden Gems.

Debby has had a real spurt of creative energy as the exhibition draws closer. She has revisited work that had been left unfinished and unresolved .She is always creating so it’s no wonder there is always something she can pick up !

Her talents run to using different media like the machine stitched

hand coloured piece  or a print ,both above .

This lantern was created in a Bristol Stitchers workshop and shows she is comfortable using three dimensions too .

This botanical contact print will no doubt turn up in something .

She had returned to this dry point print on fabric ,adding in deeper colour with Inktense pencils,

A favourite medium for colouring fabrics and adding detail.

She has used them with free motion stitch ,in this small quilted piece below .

This piece we saw last month had had a border added.She used some ice dyed fabric from a charity shop 

For the inner border .Looking for a suitable fabric she came across a Calvin Klein duvet cover …….the right and wrong  side was perfect to finish it off .

She has added some iridescent highlights to the beetles on this piece which are subtle .

but give a lovely glimmer to them.

She brought along the dry point piece in October as she had strengthened the colour .

She felt it was still lacking something so was pleased at her husband’s suggestion to add a …….slug!

It is a perfect solution to draw the eye.

She has a recurring theme of beetles so is exploring them in some extra pieces.

This one is silk painted on craft vilene .

It was World Textile Day recently and she went along ,unable to resist these from the African Fabric Shop

and this exquisitely embroidered small purse ,produced she thought by the Hmong people 

and some jade beads.