Exhibitors 2020
All Directions
Our exhibition shows work completed by ‘All Directions’, a creative stitched textiles group who meet fortnightly in Lichfield to learn and explore new techniques to incorporate into their own work. If you would like to know more about the group, then please contact the tutor Jane Lockley. Jane@fairwayss.co.uk
Bookart
Bound Together
Meeting on a regular basis, we individually create books that demonstrate a wide and eclectic mix of stitch and mixed media. We transpose the ordinary humble book into a feast of design, texture and colour.
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Cathy Reavy
Threads Workshops
Cathy runs a broad range of hand embroidery workshops in the beautiful Peak District village of Alstonefield near Ashbourne. Gaining inspiration from her travels around the world, Cathy develops her own designs, which she teaches others to re-create on her workshops using traditional techniques.
Carole Holme
The Natural World in Goldwork and Silk Shading
‘The Natural World in Goldwork and Silk Shading’ celebrates the creativity and expertise of Carole’s Goldwork group, which meets at Ticknall in Derbyshire. In addition to Goldwork, the exhibits showcase other hand embroidery techniques such as Stumpwork and Silk Shading. Carole’s aim is to inspire and promote hand embroidery techniques through teaching, demonstrating and exhibiting.
Crazy Mary Crafts
Staffordshire Stand
Crazy Mary Crafts provides textile workshops and residential stitching weekends; plus school projects and community based textile art. Many of Mary’s projects are also available as kits to complete at home.
Embroiderers Guild
The Embroiders Guild welcomes everyone with an interest in any area of embroidery. Find your local branch for monthly meetings, talks and workshops.
Guild of Silk Painters
An Introduction to the excitement of Silk Painting
Exhibition Hall
The Guild of Silk Painters is a non-profit organisation who meet where and whenever possible to share knowledge and promote the art of silk painting in all its many guises.
Jeudis
Connected by Thread
This eclectic exhibition explores diversity of individual styles and visions in the development of traditional textile crafts as art, through consideration of form, line, colour, shape and perspective, with thread as the common factor.
Karen Lane
Karen Lane is a mixed media Textile Artist and Feltmaker based in North Lincolnshire. Nature provides an unending source of inspiration for her work, from trees and leaves to fossils and pond objects. Karen teaches a variety of workshops in both Textiles and Feltmaking in the UK and in France.
Project Linus
Project Linus UK is a network of needle workers who make new patchwork quilts. These are given as a gift to sick, traumatised and needy children to give them a sense of comfort and security.
Traverse
Senses
Traverse is a group of textile artists, working with varied styles, mediums and techniques, our name evolved from looking or moving sideways, finding different perspectives. ‘Senses’ (2020) explores our individual approaches to the sensory world in felt, paint, print and stitch.
The Quilters Guild Modern Quilt Group
The Bloomfield Coverlet and More
The Modern Quilt Group were asked to make a 20 inch square quilt inspired by any part of the Coverlet or anything it evokes. Other exhibits are made by members of the Modern Quilt Group from Region 11 of the Quilters Guild.
Wymeswold Threads
Starting Out
Wymeswold Threads is a newly formed group whose members have a broad range of experiences. We create textile art using a wide variety of materials and techniques. Our exhibition is characterised by its diversity and imagination – thread is our common theme.
Who exhibited with us previously?
View our list of past exhibitors