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22nd July 202422nd July 2024

Open for Business

After a great deal of work behind the scenes, I’m pleased to announce that my on-line shop is now Open for Business!

A selection of Greeting cards and Giclée Fine Art Prints are now available. Each based on one of my original hand embroidery designs.

Greeting Cards

Greeting cards designs – Worker Bees, Sound of the Kenwood Chef, Covid – 19 Part 1, Giant Cauliflower Harvest, Moors of Home, Matchbox Challenge, Sylko Addict, Time for Tea, Take Time to Smell the Roses and Summer ’76.

Open for business - Worker Bee greeting card. — Worker Bee greeting card.

Each card is printed onto unbleached 100% recycled 300gsm paper and comes with a 100% Recycled envelope. Packaged in a 100% compostable wrapper.

Open for business - Sound of the Kenwood Chef greeting card. — Sound of the Kenwood Chef greeting card.

Take Time to Smell the Roses greeting card.

Giclée Fine Art Prints

Giclée Fine Art Print designs – Sound of the Kenwood Chef, Covid – 19 Part 1, Giant Cauliflower Harvest, Moors of Home, Sylko Addict, Time for Tea, Take Time to Smell the Roses and Summer ’76.

Each giclée is printed with Epson ultrachrome pigmented light-fast inks on Fotospeed platinum etching 285gsm, 100% acid free, cotton & wood pulp mix. This combination produces a print with a lifespan in excess of 100 years.

Each print is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity signed by myself.

Supplies

I’ve carefully curated two sets of DMC embroidery threads for you. The first contains my ‘Go-To Threads’. A collection based on the colour palette I’ve used in the homemade recipe series of work. The second is my colour of choice – the iconic red thread.

Drop me a line and let me know if there’s any other items you’d like included in the shop. Thank you – Catherine.

17th July 202417th July 2024

Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn – Meet the Artists

Textile artists and authors, Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn, have worked together for over 45 years. Their Rhythms & Reflections exhibition builds on their love of detailed hand and machine embroidered surfaces.

Join Jan and Jean, as they share the stitches and techniques that created the work.

Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn: https://doubletrouble-ent.com/

Books by Jan and Jean: https://amzn.to/4bN0G3N

Jan’s work is inspired by the ever-changing landscape of the Wetlands of Lefkada in Greece.

“The colours and organic growth patterns provided the initial fascination. Excitement followed by observations of the lush, overgrown variety of grasses, which offered layers of glorious textures yet still maintain the rhythms and constrictions of the tidal waterways. Intriguing light and atmospheric changes in early evening and after sundown have led to developing new focal points.”

Work from the Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn exhibition

Jean’s work centres on the rhythms and cycles of the moon, and she reflects on how our ancestors viewed these phenomena as evidenced in cultural myths and legends.

“During lockdown, the phases of the moon embodied continuity and reassurance in an uncertain world and became the focus of her work. Moon mythology informed pieces such as ‘Wolf Moon’ and ‘Sturgeon Moon’, whereas other works were responses to night-time observations of atmospheric cloud framed moons.“

Work from the Jan and Jean's exhibition — Work from the Jan and Jean’s exhibition

Filmed at the Knitting & Stitching Show, London 2023.

For a more inspiration, please browse the ‘Meet the Artist’ collection on my YouTube Channel.

16th July 202416th July 2024

L’Merchie Frazier – Meet the Artist

L’Merchie Frazier is a multidisciplinary artist and educator who explores themes of Black identity in the Americas and beyond. Black and indigenous people have a shared history of over 500 years in unwritten, unrecognised and unacknowledged narratives about the spaces they occupy, physically, mentally and spiritually.

Join L’Merchie as she shares the stories behind her work.

L’Merchie Frazier: https://lmerchiefrazier.org/

Story Quilt by L'Merchie Frazier — Story Quilt by L’Merchie Frazier

“The journey to establishing selfhood and importance that is manifest in today’s “call to action” is a trek of reclaiming the right to self-possession and ownership with elevated voice, story and space. Importantly, the direct action to embrace the right to exist, claim one’s own self-worth, beauty and love is a marked effort that fuels the move from insignificance to significance, to matter.”

This exhibition celebrates the Decade of African Descended People declared by the United Nations, 2015 to 2025. The LookBook quilts, The Quilted Chronicles series, participates in the restorative aesthetic to promote dialogue via an explorative historical lens, to reclaim the lives and legacies of Black and Brown people, children and their communities across centuries of memory, places and activism.

L’Merchie’s quilts select moments to confront the impact of slavery and systemic racism.

The inspiration to create these quilts is supported by archived threads of petitions, speeches, organisations, lawsuits, writings, media, witnessed violence and protests. The experience is documented from the kidnapping of Africans and their arrivals in 16th century, to the American Revolution, through the Civil War and the 13th Amendment in 1865, through the end of American Reconstruction, in a continuum to the 21st Century.

Story Quilt by L'Merchie — Story Quilt by L’Merchie

Filmed at the Festival of Quilts 2023.

For a more inspiration, please browse the ‘Meet the Artist’ collection on my YouTube Channel.