The Old Workshop Gallery

Next studio well, Gallery at Corpusty.

A quaint Gallery with exhibitions, garden

and Jill Hill Fashion Designer, studio come workshop in the corner.

Jill studies old costumes especially smocks and uses them in

her designs.

Above is one of her cards.

There was lots to investigate and realy good art information.

Thank you Jill for opening your Gallery

to Open Studios visitors.

Pauline Wrighton

From Sally-Ann's studio to Pauline Wrighton's Studio.

Another studio in the garden with chickens.

Pauline studio is a large modern logcabin and you can see this on her website.

Her work was so professional and her studio so inspirational.

Linda and I could have stayed all day but

more visitors were coming through the door

and we were on our studio mission.

Thank you Pauline for inspiring us and making us so welcome.

Enjoy visiting Pauline's website!

http://www.oaksidestudio.co.uk/

Highland Cattle

In Sally-Ann's farm yard as we walked down, one of her

'prize winning' Highland cattle came to say 'hello!'

with her calf wandering behind her.

She was amazing!

Thank you Sally-Ann for opening your studio.

Picture taken by Linda

Tulips

Inside Sally-Ann's Blue studio it was beautifully presented

with all her work and inspiration.

Textiles galore, pictures and sketchbooks.

The tulip embroidered textile above was the inspiration

for a rag rug Sally-Ann was working on and next year she will be exhibiting

pictures from the same inspiration.

After a cup of coffee and a chat we wandered back down her garden.

To get in the mood with" Tulips from Amsterdam",

this video has wonderful displays as well as artwork.

Sally-Ann Rainey

This was the view of our first Studio to visit.

Sally- Ann's Blue German Builders Hut.
It was down her garden next to an amazing amount of beautiful
chickens, ducks and their farm yard.

Picture taken by Linda.

Norfolk Open Studios

Yesterday myself and Linda Turner, another fibre artist

had a day out visiting some studios around Norfolk.

It was to be a 'Studio Crawl'.

We had a fantastic day out venturing up Norfolk lanes and seeing all

manner of things to inspire and talk about.

We met some amazing artists and enjoyed seeing their studio spaces.

I don't think we stopped talking all day except

for the interuption of the sat nav.

We wouldn't have found half the studios we did without it

and Linda's map reading skills.

Thank you Lindafor such a lovely day.

Purple Sketchbook

I have enjoyed making this sketchbook cover.

Using a different colours and textures

to mix in with the purple was really fun.

This sketchbook will be for sale

@ The Gallery Dereham.

See more of my embellished work and sketchbooks at

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Purple Embellished Detail

There were so many areas of interest in the

purple embellished textile

but I liked this one due to the movement of stitches.

I used many different types of fabrics to get thedifferent

textures.

I have used various machine stitches as details,

over the top of the embellished felted fabrics.

See more embellishments on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Purple Embellishment Textile

I have been working on some more embellished textiles.

This purple one will be made up into a sketchbook cover.

See more embellished work on my website.

http://www.art2inspire.co.uk/

Jenn Practising Poi

It was such a lovely Friday afternoon
Jenn practised some Poi.
Practising some new moves.
She is still wanting fire poi but
I draw the line at that,here at at Quilters Cottage
at the moment.
She'll have to enjoy ribbon and stick poi
and leave the fire poi to the demonstation events!
I think she takes after the firemen in the family!!!

Clematis Arch

(double click on image to enlarge)

This purple clematis is absolutely amazing the flowers

are the size of side plates!

It is climbing up through a climbing rose on another arch.

I put my Starburst quilt on the seat.

All the fabric for this was dyed and batik'd.

The veg bed in front of it has got courgettes in

but as you can see it has been very dry here,

we have to water most nights.

See more of my quilts on

http://www.art2inspired.co.uk/

Clematis Arches

I just had to take a photograph of the Clematis Arches

in our garden.
This one leads into the 'Monks Garden'.
It's enclosed originally for a place for me to come out

of my old studio,
sit in a secret garden read and draw.
Now it's where we plant salads and veg

we don't want the deer to eat!
See more of Quilters Cottage Garden throughout this blog and
http://www.art2inspire.co.uk/

Watton Holiday Workshop

As one of my roles as a Norfolk Community Artist I help run

Holiday Art Activities and yesterday I was at Watton Junior School.

The theme was 'Holiday in a Box'.

All the children had the opportunity of making a box,painting it, decorating and putting

things that they would like to do on holiday or places they have been.

They also got the chance of putting a wish holiday in an envelope

which maybe one day will come true.( We all crossed our fingers!)

Lots of paint,glitter,laughter and eating went on.

Thank you to Sue who organised the event and the two parents who

volunteered to help.

As you can see this group had a lovely time!

See more workshops on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Gallery Day 2nd of June

More of the Exhibition by Marion and Jill.

Workshop Tuesday was wonderful with all the inspiration around.

On the table is the Quillo I have been working on.

You saw the pile of fabric before.

See more of my work at

http://www.art2inspire.co.uk/

Gallery Day 2nd of June

The Gallery is hosting the work of two Textile Artists,

for the Norfolk Open Studios.

The Artists are Jill Arnold and Marion Barnett

and are exhibiting and demonstrating,

their work until 6th of June.

Visit Marion's blog at

http://artmixter.blogspot.com/

The Exhibition runs until