Smiths Row at Christmas, Bury St Edmunds

Elan Valley, 2011. Jacquard woven silk and cotton.

Pembrokeshire Grasses, 2011. Jacquard woven silk and cotton.

Opening this Friday 11th Nov is the Christmas exhibition at Smiths Row in Bury St Edmunds. Its quite a roll call of makers and artists who have been invited to show work, and I'm delighted to have a number of my jacquard woven works included.

Wales Music Foundation stand at Womex

I love it how my work can crop up in surprising places.  Above is a picture of the Music Wales stand at WOMEX. The wonderful Kutchibok Design were responsible for all the branding and stand design, and between them and Wales Arts International who were supporting the venture, they decided one of my jacquard woven Welsh landscape views would make a suitable backdrop. Cardiff is one of the candidates to host the WOMEX festival in 2013..... and I've got my fingers and toes crossed that it's successful.

Exhibition at Model House Craft and Design Centre, plus the Eisteddfod!

Tomorrow sees the opening of a solo exhibition of my work at the Model House Craft and Design Centre in Llantrisant. It's open until the 31st August, and it shows a wide variety of my differing styles of work. As always, you can see my Resonate series of works of textiles captured in acrylic. But there are also some handwoven silks; jacquard 'sketches' and 'needle woven' textiles woven straight into acrylic box panels.

There was a little article in yesterdays Metro relating to this exhibition.

I am also delighted to report that I have had two pieces of work selected for this years' Eisteddfod exhibition. The two pieces are 'Grasses' and 'Meadow Grasses' which you can see below:

The Eisteddfod is in Cardiff this year, and is open from the 2-9 August.

As well as having work in the main Eisteddfod Art and Crafts exhibition, I will also have work exhibited with ...A Crefft in the Exhibition Hall. Again, this will be more pieces from the Jacquard Sketch series.