Author Archives: Mary Sleigh

 In Place opens at Farfield Mill on Saturday July 11th July 11th – 31st August 2015 Open daily 10.30 – 17.00 Find out more at http://www.farfieldmill.org

In Tatters is a triptych all ready to go to Sweden. It just needs to be packed up and that will take so much more time than I ever expect! Some members of the Textile Study Group are exhibiting with Textil … Continue reading →

Here’s some of the work in the gallery  

Since I last posted a message I have been furiously making work for our new exhibition. We packed everything up last week and drove up to Hawick to deliver the work and install the pieces that are sited in the … Continue reading →

2015 promises to be an exciting and busy year. I am looking forward to exhibiting again with my friend and colleague, Jan Miller, at Hawick  Museum in the Scottish Borders in April/May and at Farfield Mill  in Sedbergh in July/August. I’m looking … Continue reading →

I’ve really enjoyed looking at the work of two artists who love drawing and use it in different ways. Jo Beattie, a textile artist, has been a friend for many years and uses her sewing  machine to draw. You can see … Continue reading →

The Mini Maker Faire was packed with enthusiastic visitors of all ages encouraged by a robot roaming around the Faire and streets nearby. Sue Craig was there again with her band of knitters and stitchers. Huge progress since last year … Continue reading →

Making book structures for embroiderers and textile artists was the theme for the weekend. They were a great bunch of enthusiastic students and here are some of the finished pieces and work in progress …….. never enough time to finish … Continue reading →

After some exciting travels in New Zealand it was time to teach at Whanganui at Easter time. They were a friendly, lively bunch of people and once again I worked with a very hard working and imaginative group. We had … Continue reading →

Anne Greville Life has been very busy making work for the exhibition at Cley and so much time has passed since I was teaching at Ballarat.  I often think of the great time we all had there and see they’ve got … Continue reading →