I’m pleased to announce that Lancashire Rich Jam Cake is part of the National Embroidery Awards 2025 at the Fashion & Embroidery Show, NEC Birmingham, England.
This exhibition of machine and hand embroidery features around a 100 stunning artworks from across the UK. The Fashion & Embroidery Show is hosted by the Creative Craft Show in Hall 20 at the NEC centre, Birmingham, England, 13th – 16th March 2025.
National Embroidery Awards 2025
I visited on day two of the show, busy with visitors from both stitching and mixed media backgrounds.
As I popped into the exhibition I snapped the image below – a visitor totally absorbed with my hand embroidered recipe.
Visitor reading the recipe
Towards the end of the day I took these images showcasing the diverse work on show.
Images from the show.Images from the show.
There could only be one overall winner.
The Best in Show was awarded to my dear friend and textile artist Aran Illingworth. Congratulations Aran.
I’m pleased to share that my hand embroidered work will be on display on the Embroiderers’ Guild stand at the Fashion & Embroidery Show, NEC Birmingham 13th-16th March 2025.
I’m pleased to announce that Summer ’76 and Summer 2022 Part 2 have been jury selected for the Plas Brondanw Open 2025.
Summer ’76
The exhibition will be on show at Plas Brondanw, Llanfrothen, Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, LL48 6SW, from 8 March – 4 May.
Summer 2022 Part 2
“The theme of this year’s exhibition is ‘Space’, and it has inspired a varied and exciting response among our artists, with works in all mediums from textiles and sculptures to oil paintings, photographs and drawings of all kinds. The content also varies from the mythological to the scientific and from the abstract to the figurative, and we have an amazing selection of experienced and new artists.” ~ Plas Brondanw
Thank you to Sian Elen, Contemporary Art Curator at Plas Brondanw for including my work in the exhibition.
The success of Portmeirion Potteries was only one facet of Susan’s life and work. Susan was an accomplished artist and author, drawing inspiration from the sea as did her father. Susan studied at Chelsea School of Art under Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland. Her paintings exhibited at the Festival of Britain. Several rooms at Portmeirion Village are furnished with her textile designs.
Portmerion Pottery designs by Susan Williams-Ellis. Designs called Cypher, Totem and Jupiter.
Plas Brondanw (the house and gallery) is the home of the Susan Williams-Ellis Foundation. The charity – established after Susan’s death – conserves her archive and ensures her work and that of the wider family are available to the public.
