• Wendy Lloyd – My Inspiration

    Kennet Valley Hall Kennet Valley Hall, Lockeridge

    Wendy is a Textile Artist, printmaker and teacher living and working in West Berkshire. She absorbed textile skills by osmosis from her mother – a textile artist who taught embroidery […]

  • Clare Edwards – A Defiant Approach to Hand Emboidery

    Kennet Valley Hall Kennet Valley Hall, Lockeridge

    Clare will describe her journey to becoming a mixed media hand embroidery artist working both traditional and contemporary hand embroidery techniques and combining these with alternative materials such as concrete, […]

  • Bailey Curtis – My Life in Textiles

    Kennet Valley Hall Kennet Valley Hall, Lockeridge

    Bailey will be giving a presentation of her work through the years, with many samples, workbooks & sketchbooks. There will not be a digital presentation but Bailey will bring lots […]

  • Kirstie McLeod – The Red Dress Project

    Kennet Valley Hall Kennet Valley Hall, Lockeridge

    The Red Dress Project is an award winning global collaborative embroidery project centred around a red silk dress. It is a platform for women’s voices to be shared and heard, […]

  • Sheila Davies – Aunties

    Kennet Valley Hall Kennet Valley Hall, Lockeridge

    “Aunties” (some of them related) and how they influenced me. Sheila has been a Primary and Secondary school teacher and has also lectured in her local college, teaching textiles and […]

  • Mair Edwards – Memories Remembered and Lost

    My work began with personal memories and has continued to be inspired by different historical and cultural ways of recording experiences. The work has evolved slowly over time with materials […]

  • Ruth Smith – Fabulous Festival Costume

    Kennet Valley Hall Kennet Valley Hall, Lockeridge

    Featuring traditional costumes from remote SW China and focussing on the elaborate embroidery techniques and textile traditions of the Miao and Dong minority peoples. For many years Ruth was a […]

  • Wendy Hermelin – Dancing Into Textiles

    Kennet Valley Hall Kennet Valley Hall, Lockeridge

    Listing Update: Please note that there is no charge for this talk as previously indicated Wendy says "I stitch, I dance, I walk and love being in the rawness of […]

  • Summer Lunch

    Kennet Valley Hall Kennet Valley Hall, Lockeridge

    Annual Summer Lunch; format to be advised

  • Summer Workshop – Denim Pockets

    This is our first day coming together to work on something for the exhibition next year.  The idea is that we all decorate a pocket from jeans or a jacket […]