Congratulations to Nikki for a well deserved result on her hugely imaginative and creative piece of work. Nikki was judged overall winner by Madeira and Husquvana representatives as well as by Pat Tempest from […]
We enjoyed our annual Ploughman’s lunch at our April meeting when everybody had the opportunity of chatting to friends and hearing what they had been busy creating over the winter
Cherrilyn started her workshop by showing us how to make silk paper using silk fibres. We were then asked to draw a design on soluble fleece, place it on net
The speaker at our well attended annual Branch Open Day was textile artist Cherrilyn Tyler whose talk was entitled “Journey Cloths”. She works on net and water soluble fabrics which
Sandra’s “Journeys” began in the late 1990’s when she started a City and Guilds course at Windsor. Originally she trained as an artist but then textiles took over but now
On Monday we had an “in house” printing workshop led by Ann Smith. Ann started the day with a demonstration of preparing acetate sheets and gelli plates with acrylic
Our January speaker, Valerie Threfall got the new year off to a swinging start with her highly entertaining talk entitled “The secrets of the honeymoon suitcase”. She started by explaining
What a great treat to welcome our surprise speaker Harriet Riddell to our Christmas meeting this week. I first saw Harriet at Art in Action when she had just left
Our planned speaker had to cancel her visit but a local illustrator and ceramicist kindly agreed to step in and talk to us at our November meeting. Jacqui Melhuish has
A group of MDEG members recently spent a most enjoyable two days taking part in Alexandra’s workshop. She introduced the workshop by showing us some of her own stunning bags
