Making a Point
The residential Summer Schools are tutored by different Textile Study Group members each year, and are open to everyone. This year the Textile Study Group Summer School was led by Ruth Issett, Jan Miller and Mary Sleigh. The tutors worked with design, composition and ideas as fundamental parts of their courses, encouraging and supporting the students during their inspirational courses. Below Mary talks about her workshops and shares some photos of her students work:
Coming into view: Remove I Reduce I Refine
We started with items kept and treasured by each student and started to try different ways of experimenting with a variety of techniques, exploring through mixed media possible ways of paring back, obscuring, hiding, revealing and seeing something familiar with new eyes. By allowing for change through these activities, different ways of working emerged and all the students came up with exciting and some unexpected results.
Everybody rose to the challenges including the weather! Despite fire, flood and pestilence all the students came up smiling with some very individual work. It was a happy and productive few days with a hardworking and enthusiastic group of students with lots more to develop.
