Christine Mead: On Tuesday 10th May 2011 Members of the New Embroidery Group met in the National Trust Study Room at The Old Fort on Box Hill for a sketching day. Headed up by Liz Holliday and Liz Ashurst we enjoyed a most pleasant day, made more so, by the fine weather. On arrival a much [...]
Summer – Moyra McNeill At our Christmas party in December we joyfully celebrated with cake and candles our President Moyra’s 80th birthday. For this reason it seems appropriate at this point to look back at her immensely creative life, thanking her for all the inspiration and help she has given to so many people. Moyra [...]
It seems hard to believe that Elspeth Kemp was 90 in January this year, still designing, still embroidering and still enthusiastic about all aspects of textiles and art. Elspeth was born in Crewkerne into a comfortable middle class family, surrounded by the art and sculpture of the late Victorian taste. Her father was 59 years [...]
Compton Verney, not far from Stratford-on-Avon, is a museum and art gallery which increasingly is holding interesting exhibitions, the most recent being a show of the naive painter Alfred Wallis’ work juxtaposed with that of his friend Ben Nicholson. However for NEG members there was also a delightful exhibition of 19th century woolwork embroideries created [...]
Pomegranate. Each emperor/empress’s clothes were packed in trunks after their deaths and not to be worn again. Fortunately, Mao’s plans during the Cultural Revolution, to remove the collection never materialised so today we benefit. We are able to view the stunning display in fresh, riotous colour. After our eyes on stalks meander through the dazzling [...]
The two of us met up on 11 January to look at the Designer Crafts at the Mall 2011. Over coffee, we contemplated the best way to exchange our viewing experience without unduly interrupting one another’s thoughts. We created a list of questions we could note answers to as we walked round independently. After 75 [...]
Dear Members, It was good to see so many of you at our AGM on 11th March filling the room at the Art Workers’ Guild whilst those unable to attend kindly sent their apologies. Our speaker this year was Felicity Cooke, a graduate in Constructed Textiles from the R.C.A. who had been teaching full time [...]
Initial exploration Box Hill panorama Janice and Liz experimenting Reviewing video clips Christine Mead’s sketchbook Cathy Griffiths – charcoal landscape Carole Waddle – tree detail Liz Ashurst – monochrome watercolour Liz Holliday – finger painting Janice Lawrence – watercolour Alison Hird – flower detail Alison Hird – insect detail Liz Ashurst – stitch sketch
February 10, 2011 – 7:07 pm
This Christmas season London has been host to three magnificent exhibitions, they spanned the years either side of the beginning of the last century, as well as taking one on a journey around the world. Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes at the V&A was designed in a very theatrical way incorporating [...]
February 10, 2011 – 7:06 pm
The title and the flier for this Exhibition were intriguing and viewing didn’t disappoint. It would have been worth going just to see Susie McMurray’s dress constructed of leather pierced with thousands of pins rather like an elegant hedgehog. She uses the garment as a metaphor for grief. The pins create both a protective layer [...]