Anne’s talk was entitled “Certaine Wytches: Fear, Myth & Magic” and she spoke about her Witchcraft Series which is an ongoing project. She has exhibited in Latvia, Sweden, Denmark, the USA as well as this country and last year she had a one woman show at Bovey Tracey, Devon. Anne has always been interested in witches and spends time at exhibitions interacting with the public to hear their stories which often give her more leads to follow. We were shown images of her wall hangings which tell stories of the Devon Witches, Ursula Kempe, Alice & Febey Hunt, Grace Thomas and Elizabeth Style together with spells and magical symbols. Anne then went on to explain that she paints a cartoon of her design and this acts as a guide when she creates her knotted tapestry. There is a useful video on Anne’s website to show the construction and also lots more images and explanations of her work
https://www.annejackson.co.uk/ – Home page
https://www.annejackson.co.uk/making-videos/ construction of tapestries
Thank you Anne for an interesting and thought provoking talk. Hopefully one day soon we will be able to see your amazing tapestries for ourselves! Thank you also for kindly allowing us to put these images on our blog.