Monthly Archives: February 2012

Vermeer – Suzanne Newton

February 4, 2012 – 3:25 pm

At New Year, eldest son, Tim, took me to The Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge to an exhibition, “Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence”.  As you can imagine depicted were many domestic paintings of the 17th Century by Vermeer and his contemporaries. We were given an insight into daily life of this period.  Several pictures by Vermeer [...]

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Crossing Barriers – Marion Cayless, followed by Jackie Martin

February 4, 2012 – 3:04 pm

Carole Waddle, Gwen Hedley, Jenny Black The speaker at our Christmas meeting was Gwen Hedley, the well-known embroiderer and author, who spoke on Collaborative Art Exchanges. After suffering a major health scare for two years, her recovery produced a surge of creative energy (manifesting itself in an exchange project with four friends – two textile [...]

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David Hockney Exhibition – Liz Holliday

February 4, 2012 – 2:56 pm

I have been following David Hockney’s Yorkshire chalk wold landscape work for some years now, following a Salts Mill visit one summer. I have been enthralled by landscape since childhood, have studied it and taught it.  I am still a passionate walker, and the regular landscape doses I absorb with this exercise, give me great [...]

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Chairman’s Letter February 2012 – Liz Ashurst

February 4, 2012 – 2:55 pm

Dear Members, It was encouraging to see such a large number of you at our Christmas meeting filling the room at the Artworkers’ Guild to capacity. Gwen Headley’s lecture on ‘Collaborative Exchanges’ was very well received and gave us something to consider as a future possibility for our own group. The afternoon session ‘Creative Consequences’ [...]

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Buttons at the Museum of London – Thelma Cooper and Kathie Small

February 4, 2012 – 2:43 pm

  We were met by Hilary Davidson, the Curator of Fashion and Textiles.  What followed showed us that here was a Museum to rival the V&A.  The Museum had started life in Kensington Palace and has now risen to being one of the top five in Britain. In theory items have to be connected to [...]

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