Author Archives: Jean Kirk

Our exhibition is installed and we would be lucky to see you there! Our two new members Monika Haeussler- Goeschel and Marian Murphy present their work and we are happy to have them in the group! The gallery is open till 15. May – each day from 11.00 to 16.00

Monika Brueckner To come back into creative work, I started an online course with Katie Sollohub: “Memory of the self “. By working through the different tasks, I came over with blind drawing.  In mind we should go through our house and draw things, places, or objects we remember. The outcome was fascinating. I always stoppedContinue reading “Time – Live – Objects”

We are working towards our next exhibition in May 2022: Rhythm of Time

A Path, a way A beginning, a journey An arriving, a beginning A path forward This is my arriving, beginning and way forward.

Madame Defarge in ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ by Charles Dickens knitted into her work the names of those to be executed when the revolution began. Although this is fiction, knitting was used as a means of passing on information during the American War of Independence and both World Wars. With a series of knots,Continue reading “Knitted Codes: Jean Kirk”

Looking for inspiration and patterns…… Caroline Hibbs Someone once said to me that looking for inspiration is like wading in mud.  My first thought was ‘what a ridiculous thought;’ but after pondering over it I realised …. that is exactly what it is.  During this time of Covid 19 it has been difficult to thinkContinue reading

Online Exhibition Caroline Hibbs, Jean Kirk, Kay Swancutt, Marilyn Hall, Monika Brueckner Caroline Hibbs ‘Marks we leave behind’ My work was inspired by the marks we leave behind that perhaps we shouldn’t. Hand stitch, cotton cloth and thread, 100 x 80 cms Look carefully and- See patterns all around you. Beautiful or not Marks areContinue reading “Here : Now”

I have just put away my natural dyeing work for a few winter months. These are some of the colours which resulted from my experiments during the Autumn; I hope this work will be the basis for a new exhibition in 2020. Looking forward to the Spring!!

We have just finished our exhibition in Bedford, thank you to all who visited and made comments. This is a lovely space in which to exhibit and we very much enjoyed being there.

We open our exhibition on Tuesday at the ‘Basement @ Bunyan’ in Bedford, this is a relatively new gallery and we look forward to exhibiting there. Please come to visit if you are around in the area, we would be very pleased to see you and hear your comments on our work.