Another busy and enjoyable meeting on 1st July. Stitching during the morning with Jose and Chris B’s stitch clubs and the fantastic Nikki Parmenter was our speaker in the afternoon. Nikki’s textile based mixed media work is astonishing. Her designs, complex and with meaning and symbolism, are turned with great skill into fabulous textured works of art using a sewing machine and a variety of unorthodox and often recycled materials. The results are stunning. Vibrant, intriguing, it’s difficult to do them justice in photographs. She brought lots of examples and was generous with her time and response to members’ questions.
Jose and Chris have one more stitch club session next month. Beginning in September Sharon and Maggie will lead three sessions. At the meeting members signed up for Sharon’s embroidered colour wheel and Maggie’s block printing on which to embroider. They also signed up for our visit in October to the Bankfield Museum and Shibden Hall.At the August meeting two of our members Nicky and Liz (with input from Mary) will be our speakers, talking about their Foundation Degree inTextile Practice, which they are doing at Bradford School of Art. The talk is called ‘Becoming a Textile Student after Retirement’. They will bring along sketchbooks and some of their work for us to see.
Chris
Here are some pictures of the lovely and varied items members were working on on Saturday morning, with some of Nikki Parmenter's work below.
Nikki Parmenter's Work
