Back to School Week

It's back to school week here in Derbyshire which means one thing.....it's the Wirksworth Festival at the weekend! In Derbyshire we are good at making the summer last and this year I will be exhibiting at both the Wirksworth and the Melbourne Festivals.

I've had a good break over the summer (more to tell of that in other posts) and now the boys are back at school I am getting my wares ready for the weekend. There'll be special festival prices on prints and originals so come and see me at the Wild Cherry Bed and Breakfast up the very steep Greenhill. It's worth the walk as I will be exhibiting alongside Tracy Cuppitt and our host is a cafe stop for festival visitors. From up there the views are amazing, not too dissimilar to this....

Then it's a quick pitstop at home before the Melbourne Festival Art Trail on the 17th and 18th of September where I will be at 49 Church Street. Don't forget to buy your trail guide from one of the sellers in the village centre. Fingers crossed that the sun keeps shining! 

I look forward to seeing you!

New Work

Here's my newest print 'Valley'. It is a big one! It's my feature piece at the Sock Preview Show that opens today at the Town Hall in Loughborough.  Using contemporary wizardry it is a print taken from three works from my British Landscape series.  It measures 45cm x 110cm, a size that I couldn't easily work at because of the constraints of sewing with a domestic sewing machine on paper.  The print quality is amazing and captures every detail of stitch, paper and ink.  It is printed on German etching paper with archival inks.  

The work was commissioned by a customer who had already bought my 'Valley Deep' piece.  And so I created 'Valley High' and 'Valley Steep' to compliment it and these three were united for 'Valley'.

I'll be in the gallery at Sock, Loughborough on the weekend of the Makers Market (March 23rd and 24th).  Hope to see you there!