Coming up ... Talk by Susan Hotchkis, and Saturday Stitching Session

We will be joined on Friday 5th February (via Zoom)   

by tutor Susan Hotchkis for a talk on 

‘The role of photography in my work’

Susan lives in the Highlands of Scotland, and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally.  She uses print techniques and machine stitch to create two- and three-dimensional abstract wall pieces, saturated with colour and stitch, to highlight the beauty found in the processes of ageing and decay.

Susan will also discuss some of the many processes she uses in her work, such as breakdown printing and paper lamination.                    

www.suehotchkis.com

Taking up the theme of photography, we will have a stitch at home session on

Saturday 6th February: ‘Take a photograph'

Suitable for hand or machine stitchers and for all levels of experience.

You may be inspired in some way by the tutor's talk or by using a photograph of your own - it could be something like the close-up marks on a stone, piles of seaweed on a beach, the patterns in tree bark, etc. You can interpret the photograph realistically or in an abstract way. You could have a colour play day and maybe use the photograph but with very bright and bold colours. Anything goes!

There will be a Zoom show-and-tell session at 2pm, so we can share our ‘started pieces’.

Members already registered for Zoom will automatically receive an invitation by the end of Wednesday 3rd February 2021. 

If you have never registered for Zoom and would like to attend, please contact anneprior@btinternet.com by Tuesday 2nd February.

Any members not joining in the Zoom session are still encouraged to take part by sending a photo of your sample piece to leamingtondistrictitrep@embroiderersguild.co.uk, so that it can be included in the branch blog article.

We are NOT expecting finished pieces, but it's a great opportunity to learn something from your own experiment or from seeing what others do.