Inspired by Slad Valley

I've just delivered three pieces of work to the church in Slad where this exhibition is being held. It is commemorating the centenary of Laurie Lee's birth It opens on Saturday 21st and runs until 29th June. I will be stewarding there on Sunday 22nd in the afternoon. There are a variety of media represented and I'm sure it will be fascinating. A percentage of sales will go towards the Church.
Next week I shall be artist in residence again at Nature in Art, Twigworth, Gloucester. Tuesday 22nd until Sunday 29th June. I am intending to do some fabric dyeing ready for some more lichen hangings for the exhibition in October at Westonbirt Arboretum with Cotswold Edge. I am really looking forward to it. It is such a lovely place and great fun meeting lots of different people - a bit like the textile trail.

I also have an online interview with so-glos. There is a link below.

http://www.soglos.com/culture/36916/In-the-studio-with-Liz-Brooke-Ward

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Bull's Cross -mixed media and stitch. £200

Bull's Cross - detail. This is a mixed media piece using cotton muslin and scrim and paper which is machine stitched. The sky is hand stitched.

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Swift's Hill, Spring. £200
This is another appliquéd, hand and machine stitched piece in cotton and silk. The sky is hand stitched. I enjoyed stitching the barbed wire fence in the foreground.

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Swift's Hill, Winter. £200
The same view as the one on the left but a bit closer up. Someone told me that quaking grass grew  there so I stitched some grass in the foreground. It is such a pretty delicate plant. The ploughed area below the hill looked quite red against the dark sky and reminded me of the pictures of Stroud red cloth pinned on the hillsides to dry on tenter hooks.

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