Embroidered Landscapes
On Thursday 20th
November we were very pleased to welcome Mary Taylor to our meeting to tell us
about her embroidered landscapes.
Mary has a unit
in Farfield Mill in Sedbergh where she usually works and displays her pictures
etc. for sale but on this morning had come to Keswick to show us how she makes
them. And what a treat it was!
Backed up with
her excellent photographs of the landscapes she is depicting, Mary was very
generous with her information regarding her methods of working and the fabrics
and threads she uses. She had many samples to hand round showing us the various
stages of her work and demonstrated each of the steps she takes to achieve her
amazing results.
Her talk and
demonstration was interesting, informative and inspiring and left many of our
members fired up with enthusiasm to “give it a go”. Mary, however, has been
making these landscapes for several years, since completing her City and
Guilds, and thus has perfected her techniques, so I do not think she needs
worry about any serious competition any time in the near, or even the middle
distant future!
Thanks to Val for this report, on a meeting I was very disappointed to miss! I don't have any pictures of Mary's talk; hopefully someone might send me some. However, here is a link to Mary's website where you can check out her work.
No comments:
Post a Comment