films of Art in Nature

Liz Harding's landscapes being blown gently in the breeze.

Corinne's Hung up to Dry, billowing in the breeze of the garden at Nature in art.
Only one more day to see our exhibition in the gallery and explore the gardens to find our outdoor pieces hidden within the gardens, as the exhibition closes on bank holiday monday at 5pm.

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Susi's prayer flags blowing gently in the breeze outside the gallery at Nature in Art, spreading her messages of peace and hope.

More inside out.. outside in...

Inside prayer flag with its language of stitches and backing frame of beeswax

Outside flags on withies dancing in the breeze! 

These dresses were worn by Susi's nieces as part of some filming Alison worked on outside

This beauty was found inside and carefully looked at by children coming out of Carla and Alison's wonderful workshops

Looking outside..

Carla's mushroom trail

Kay's with a ladybird visitor

Liz Harding's in the breeze

Quilts Outside at Nature in Art

My quilts hanging in the garden of Nature in Art, seemed to have survived the heavy rain, drying out quickly and glowing in the warm sunshine. 

Three long thin quilts wrapped around the trunks of the Hazel tree and a quilt hung on the garden wall nearby, covered in symbols to represent the qualities of the Hazel as the Tree of Knowledge. Orange used as the colour traditionally associated with the Hazel.

artists in residence..

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A busy week for the BB Exhibition - each of us taking turns working in the Artist Studio.

A perfect chance for visitors to see our working practices and have conversations with us.

Above is Liz Hewitt working on eco dye - more to share in the coming days!

Postcard packing party

Kay, Liz, Steph & Carla spent a lovely day together on Wednesday sorting our individual artists postcards into packs and then wrapping them with individual handmade wrappers.

The wrappers waiting to be wrapped around the postcards.

The completed packs ready for our exhibition at Nature in Art. Each postcard pack contains 12 individual postcards about each member of BB's.

Me too!

 

These are just about ready -  paper folded, silk scraps stitched and buttons sewn on.

I loved the repetition of processes - cutting, folding, stitching - 30 times 

Looking forward to seeing the cards back from the printers!

Must start to prepare the short Talk for Wednesday 19th August about preparing for the Exhibition and showing images of the BB's 'work in progress' towards it....

Come to Nature in Art

Another copy of our invitation to encourage visitors for August
Please click on the image to enlarge it for viewing in more detail
Look forward to seeing you!

Outdoor pieces for nature in art

Trying out my pieces in a tree at Nature in Art.

Bundles of strips ready for stitch.

9...

The 9th of 9 prayer flags for my inside piece at Inside Out. Now to experiment with a backing piece!

More detail on my blog boostitch 

Broderers Meeting last Friday...

A few 'snaps' from our Meeting last Friday - thanks to Steph for the pics!

We always mean to take more pics at meetings and will make this a focus for the future

Susi's prayer flags and Carolyn's seagulls alongside our newly printed postcards for Nature in Art

which we are starting to distribute .....

Brunel Broderers

Hello, think I've got it, this is one of the samples for my piece for Nature in Art

Another BB Meeting day

Another Meeting Day today - filled with activity and discussion - sharing work, planning the forthcoming Exhibition 'Inside Out' for Nature in Art and interviewing for a new member (more exciting news to follow)
Quick glimpses of work from Carolyn, Carla and Alison

A BB Meeting

Sharing work at our January Meeting

A few quick 'snaps' taken to give a flavour of work..

Group work in the first two, followed by glimpses of work in progress  from
Louise, Linda, Corinne, Carolyn
More next time....

A little experiment following on from this
More 'back of an envelope' quick drawings whilst watching the crows...
torn, stitched with silk selvedge in a 9 patch... I have more plans.
The joy of this is to try out ideas!

Nature In Art invitations

Work in progress trying out ideas for Exhibition invitations..

Pen and ink drawing with machine embroidery

I like the concept of 'back of the envelope' quick sketch drawings to capture an idea!

Carla's work in progress for Nature in Art

Look at these wondrous pictures of Carla's work in progress... We look forward to seeing more of this intriguing work 

Ecodyed fabric & papers

Windfall leaves collected at Nature in Art, wrapped in silk noil bundles.  The start of my pieces for our exhibition INSIDE:TUO recording the seasonal changes in the garden. 

Really pleased with the results, especially the pieces dyed with birch leaves. I'll be joining them to create a long thin hanging. 

My steamed papers were even better.

Nature in Art visit

Eight of us spent a day at Nature in Art, Twigworth, looking around the gardens and gallery for potential spaces to place pieces for our exhibition INSIDE : TUO in August 2015.

We are planning to exhibit in the gallery and outside in the gardens, and found lovely spots to consider.

My favourite, this beautiful Hazel tree, set amongst some of their sculptures.

Carla & Carolyn found brambles laden with blackberries, in amongst beds full of wild flowers and seed heads.

Watch this space, to see how our work develops for this exhibition.