Embroiderers Visible & Invisible

Our guest speaker for March, Maggie Grey, is very highly regarded in the world of embroidery and travels all over the world teaching and lecturing about her work.

She also edits Workshop on the Web, an internet-based learning programme, and has written several books and numerous articles about her mixed media work. It was testament to her reputation that the hall was fit to bursting and all tickets had been sold out well beforehand, for her talk intriguingly entitled "Visible/Invisible".

Maggie was a very generous speaker who shared all her ideas in a thoroughly absorbing digital presentation. She boasted that she loves distressed surfaces and one of her first tasks is to don her respirator and set fire to her work to give it that worn and fragmented appearance.

Her favourite subjects are icons, mosaics, fossils and rock art, all of which she returns to again and again. Her delivery was both entertaining and informative and the morning sped by.

A wonderful array of the stitched projects she had talked about were available for us to view on the tables afterwards, made all the more interesting by the fact that Maggie had already explained to us the processes involved in the making of each one. It was an unforgettable morning, which had members itching to try her techniques for themselves.

Our next meeting, on 21st April 2011, is "Computers and Textiles" with Judy Fairless. Please check out our website for more photos and information at our website – click on the link below the photos

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