Saturday 15 December 2018

UK trip

Visiting a Textile Artist.

For a few years now I have been following the work of Alison Holt, a well known and very talented Textile Artist, specializing and teaching of Thread Paintings. Her work is superb and it is on my bucket list to take one of her courses one day. She travels to Australia and New Zealand as well as the UK to teach her techniques of thread painting. I was first introduced to her by my Australian friend Barbara Blackwell. So it was on my list to visit the gallery she places her work at. When I knew that I would be near where she lives and the gallery where she sales and shows her work, I contacted to find more details of location of gallery and its opening times, and she invited me to her studio. What a wonderful experience to see her work up close and personal and to actually meet her in person.
My brother and wife as well as Paul were with me and they said that my whole being showed the excitement I felt.
This myself with Alison.

 

In the background you see the beautiful work on Alison.


Here are two of her pieces of the English countryside, I think my favorite is the bluebell woods.



Monday 10 December 2018

Our 50th Wedding Anniversary

December 10th 2018

Before our trip to the UK our children surprised us by setting up a photo shot with family photos, and a beautiful family supper with us all together at lovely restaurant. It was a beautiful day with the sun shinning and lively and warm, a great for taking photos.
So thought I would share with you all. Our actually our 50th anniversary was celebrated in England at my brothers house with a come visit tea for friends and family that we weren't able actually to visit at their homes.
We had a lovely week in a apartment in Cornwall and the weather was so great and only rain for a few minutes the whole time we were in England, which for England is surprising.






I don't know if you remembered a picture of a farm gate that I took a picture of, when we were on a country walk. So I did a thread painting of it for the Christmas in Paris show but it was one that didn't sale , so I have decided to keep it for ourselves reminders of our UK trip.



Hoping in the next day or so to get back in here to post a few more pics of our UK trip.