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Bookwrap

This bookwrap is a collection of text, poetry, images suggesting the secrecy of new life or journey. It is unfinished at present.

Wall Hanging

Penelope was created at a workshop at Compton Verney led by Alice Kettle. The work was inspired by the Exhibition The Fabric of Myth. We choose one piece of art in the exhibition as our starting point, mine was a small embroidered picture of Penelope from the Greek myth Odysseus. Penelope weaves her a plot to retain her own memory of Odysseus by weaving and unpicking a shroud of her fathers, only she will remarry when it is complete. This wall hanging was supposed to be a bag, one side figurative the other side abstract.

Bookwrap or Wall Hanging

This book wrap was created at a workshop at Compton Verney under the instruction of Textile Artist Angie Hughes. This piece was made by tearing different fabrics up and then weaving them back together to make the base layer. We then choose printing blocks to form words and images. Layers of Organza are place over the printing and finished off with Embroidery. The words used in this piece are taken from the song Summertime and my intention was to convey the feeling of summer by the use of colour and texture. Summertime never became a book wrap but a wall hanging instead .