Lots of Stitching with Through Our Hands part 1 !

My Sea Picture

Laura Kemshall

Bobby Britnell

Alicia Merrett

Annabel Rainbow

Clare Smith



Mirjam Pet-Jacobs

Quilt on wall by Bente Vold Klausen

Bethan Ash



 

Eszter Bornemisza

Susan Lenz

Quilt on the floor by Linda Kemshall,  back wall Elizabeth Barton , hanging work Els van Baarle

Apologies for a great delay in updating my blog, due to my problems logging in again ( hopefully sorted now) and just a lot of things happening, stitching, exhibitions, holidays etc...

I have also been using Facebook and instagram as an immediate way of updating news.

My blog missed out on an event I had in June / July at The Bilston Craft Gallery with the  international textile group Through Our Hands.

Here are a few images of the exhibition, which had some fantastic work from textile artists from all over the world, sorry I have not got all the artists here, but you will find more on the Through Our Hands website.

This group also came together to exhibit at The Festival of Quilts and you may be pleased to know that there is now a portfolio publication available to purchase ( from the Through Our Hands website ) with information on all the artists and their work.

We have recently had two brilliant new artists join our group, Jenni Dutton and Sue Stone who exhibited with us at The Festival of Quilts, blog post to follow!

 

I am at this very moment, in the midst of stitching and organising my exhibition "Enchanted Landscapes" for The Knitting and Stitching Shows, opening October 7th at Alexandra Palace London and then on to Dublin and Harrogate.

This is my first opportunity to show all my large textiles together including my latest work and a range of my sketchbooks.

I hope to see you there!

 

Michala x



 

 

 

Still Drawing & Stitching in 2015!

I have recently had problems logging into my blog, in fact I thought perhaps all was lost, but thankfully and miraculously I am now back to blogging!
So much has changed with social media since my tentative steps into sharing my work on my blog.
Facebook, Flickr, instagram to name a few and I have only recently acquired an iphone!
This year I have been using instagram as it's so easy and quick to upload my photos , if you use it you can find me here  http://instagram.com/michalagyetvai
I have been stitching more than drawing during our cold Winter months, at the moment I'm trying to finish my very large landscape based on the poem by Stephane Mallarme L'après-midi d'un faune and this inspired Claude Debussy's  music of the same name.
I find the music incredibly inspiring, the flute mysterious, it takes me on a journey through a deep colourful, enchanted  Summer forest.

"[This prelude] was [Debussy's] musical response to the poem of Stephane Mallarmé (1842–1898), in which a faun playing his pan-pipes alone in the woods becomes aroused by passing nymphs and naiads, pursues them unsuccessfully, then wearily abandons himself to a sleep filled with visions. Though called a "prelude," the work is nevertheless complete – an evocation of the feelings of the poem as a whole." I hope to exhibit this piece at Bilston Craft Gallery opening on the 16th May with the international textile group Through Our Hands. The exhibition is called "The Liberated Quilt" I'm really looking forward to meeting all the other artists who belong to the group. I will also be showing my textiles with them for the first time this year at The Festival Of Quilts at the NEC in August. Then at the end of the year, again a first, I will be exhibiting with The Knitting & Stitching Show in London, Dublin and Harrogate! So I hope you may be able to visit me in one of these venues. Next week I'm packing for a trip to see my sister in India! I will be staying in Bangalore but I will also be travelling to Jaipur and Jodphur, I'm very excited, as I have never travelled beyond Europe before. My new sketch books have been purchased, I'm sure the experience of a different culture will have an impact on my art work! I hope that I will have a lot to share with you on my blog in the near future.

 

Festival Of Quilts Day Out

It was my first visit to the Quilt show and I wasn't disappointed as there was so much to see.
Luckily as I had pre ordered tickets my Mum and I got in fairly quickly, but for those who had to buy a ticket there was a very long queue.
I took quite a few hurried photo's, so these are the less blurred pictures.

I hope the artist's will not mind me sharing their beautiful work as I don't have all their names.

This is The Ground Zero quilt by Lois Jarvis, it places the pictures of 621 individuals who perished at the world trade center.You can read more about this artists work here http://www.loisjarvisquilts.com/GZQ/gzq.html

A face in Patch work.

This is a sea of bonnets each one hand embroidered with the name and date of the women who were sent away to Australia from the UK on the convict ships.

In some cases they only committed petty crimes, such as stealing bread.

A demonstration area

There was also lots of tempting stalls, so I did buy a few silk fibers and a book on European Quilts!

After all the excitement of the show it was back to my own work and I completed my "Thread Life" painting.