Thank you to West Ox Art Gallery who have made us posters and flyers. 

Waggle dance quilt

Making up the quilt, I started to look at the back. Decided to make a label describing the waggle dance and the effect that pesticides have on the bees navigational skills.

Carla Mines

Liz, still stitching away.

Colours of a sunny period

Vortex

Taking a stitch for a walk

|Liz Harding

Carla continuing with her bees

Carla  has found a lovely poem by Norman Rowland Gale that describes bees beautifully.

You voluble, velvety fellows

That play on your flying and musical cellos

All golden girdled you serenade clover

Each artist in bass but a bibulous rover

Your passionate powdery pastoral bandits

Who gave you your roaming 

Rollicking mandate

Come out of my foxglove;

Come out of my roses

You bees with the plushy plausible noses.

Carla has been looking at the bees waggle dance. The bees do this dance within the hive to show the other foragers where the best food is located. They do a short zigzag when food is near and a longer one for further away. This dance was first decoded by the Austrian Scientist Karl con Frisch. He was awarded a Nobel prize in 1973 for this discovery.

Brunel broderers working towards Bampton

Christmas over, Carolyn cutting small houses for exhibition at Bampton.

Corinne has brought some sewing that she had started before. A lovely appliqué inspired by Elaine Pamphilion, to hang in her house.

Alfie helping Corinne

Corinne continuing with her wonderful cape

Corinne trying to work. Alfie the  cat has different ideas.

Brunel Broderers working on their pieces for Bampton exhibition

    

 

Liz Harding has been exploring stitch blocks and colour

Stars, stars, stars everywhere. Some samples of Linda's work on the symbols used by the Berbers of southern Morocco

the great barrier reef

Recently I have been inspired by the Hand & Lock competition brief looking at bio-mimicry. Looking at how things work is a hobby of mine and this took me to a wonderful book by W. Sackville-Kent who took photos of the Great Barrier Reef in 1894. A student of Darwins' bulldog no less, the images speak of study and discovery. This in turn has led me to discover the Australian Impressionists. At the time Australia was building a new nation, these artists sought to establish individuality in relation to location through landscape painting. My drawings and stitches aim to bring together our own understanding of locally global.

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