Work in progress

Detail

Detail

I have had a good week in the studio working on this painting, almost finished I think. I hope everyone has a happy creative weekend, the weather forecast here is rain, rain and more rain so being indoors painting sounds like a very good idea.

Antique Textile Fair Part 3: Quilt

This is my last post about the Antique Textile fair that I went to in early March. The most expensive item I bought was a quilt and I did have a bit of a should I shouldn't I moment about whether to buy it or not. In some way it's not the most prettiest of quilts, it is quite plain but there is just something about it that I really like. It is Kantha quilted so is covered in small colourful stitches, it also has lovely little random patches of patterned fabrics. Apologies again for the amount of photographs, and this is just a few, again it was something that looked good from different angles.

I think this quilt has a real story to tell but I don't know what it is, perhaps I will make one up for it.

Antique Textile Fair: Part 1

Last Sunday I visited the Antique Textile fair in Manchester which is run by The Textile Society. It is always a really good fair with a good range of textiles, and there are some bargains to had if you go searching. I picked up a few things to add to my collection. I am splitting these images into a few posts because I have got quite a few to share, the first part is mainly English and French, cheap bundles of worn fabrics. I don't think I will be doing anything with them other than using them for inspiration, although I thought maybe I could possibly make a quilt out of them but I would have to do a lot of patching !!

Unfinished Paintings

I have quite a few unfinished paintings that are balancing on a precipice, this is were I start to struggle, somehow they get lost by overworking or by not being brave enough. I wanted to post a couple of these paintings so that I could perhaps look at them in a different way. The first painting is small 30cm x 30cm, the second is larger 60cm x 60cm both acrylics the small one on board and the larger one on canvas.