Here is lovely Katie Morgan - painter of gypsy wagons and fairground rides, restorer of antique clock faces and so many more things - with her knitted hanging basket, which has been hanging joyously from the Winds of Change Gallery throughout the Winchcombe Wool Festival.
Everything in the gallery was wool oriented, one way or another, including painting and prints of British sheep by artist Alexandra Churchill - this one in the window is the local 'Cotswold Lion'. (And there's one of my books nearby).
The gallery was swarming with people all day - many local and all interesting. So interesting that I forgot to demonstrate and did a fair amount of chatting. This sheep hand puppet came visiting, if I remember rightly, he is a Sunday school prop and is still used now. His 'helping hand' is the wonderful artist Belinda Durrant.
We exchanged cards - this is one of her exquisite artworks, 'Left Foot Trap' the shoe upper is a paper cut with the mouse drawn. And the trap inside - for feet or mice? Her work is breathtakingly delicate with a delicious biting twist on the relationship between women and
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Such a lot of busy activities! There will come a time when all this settles down and you're in your new house sitting quietly with your felting on your lap once again. :) Or maybe this is the start of a new era?!
Jess xx
Such an interesting post, and I followed the links too. Good luck with your move.
Ah thanks so much for the link.
Is lovely to see your viewpoint, such a lovely thing to have been a part of. Hope the move goes well and things settle soon.
Just remember Gretel...lot's happening is a good thing....when nothing is going on ..thats when you need to be a little worried ;->
Looks like everyone had a lovely time.
Janet xox
Thankyou Gretel, lovely blog...hope you are keeping warm and dry, see you soon, kushti bok, Kt
Oooh - would have enjoyed that, Gretel. Thanks for the write up and especially the links - I have followed them all!
On Sun I am off to this: http://www.wonderwoolwales.co.uk/home.html I don't know if it will have quite the feel of what you have described so evocatively here, but hopefully it will help to stimulate some ideas inside me for what to do with the wool from our 4 Welsh Mountain Sheep - the latest arrivals at Cinderhill Farm.
Looking forward to hearing that your plans are settling into place.
D xx
It looks like a fantastic exhibition, my favourite is the sheep portrait by Alexandra Churchill - I followed your link to her website and she has done some fantastic paintings especially of hares and other wildlife. Wish I was near enough to visit the Gallery.
All sounds so bizeeee...but, such fun..... !!
What an amazing collection of wool-related loveliness!!
I hhope all your plans work out ok - moving house is stressful enough, without job related stress too!!
What a fabulous exhibition - I fell in love with that shoe!
Change is very scary, but look at it this way, it all seems like change for the better for you and that can only be good.