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Tuesday 10th September 2024

 Venue: Cox Green Community Centre  7.30pm - 9.30pm

Charity brooch Needle Felting Workshop

A chance to chat and catch up whilst making small needle felted brooches to keep, give away to make someones day or make for the Thames Valley Hospice shop to sell. 

All materials will be provided, but if you have any spare bring them along!

If we all use our remarakable talents to make just one to donate we potentially can raise a few hundred pounds!

CANCELLED Tuesday 8th October  2024

 Venue: Cox Green Community Centre 7.30pm-9.30pm

AGM & Exhibition theme launch

Please bring along an example of any work you have submitted for any exhibition. Thank you! *TBC for new date

Tuesday 22th October  2024

 Venue: Cox Green Community Centre 7.30pm-9.30pm

NEW AGM & Exhibition theme launch

Please bring along an example of any work you have submitted for any exhibition. Thank you! 

Tuesday 12th November 2024

 Venue: Zoom 7.30pm-9.30pm

Corrine Young - Botanical Textile Art

Corinne Young is an award-winning textile artist based in North Lancashire, UK. She creates three-dimensional embroidered heirloom artwork. Her stitched plant sculptures are inspired by botanical specimens, plant meanings, and historical artefacts.

Corinne has featured in national and international publications, including Country Living magazine. She has exhibited widely in galleries throughout the UK, and takes part in Open Studios, and other arts events. She has also undertaken several large commissions and residencies. Her work is in private collections all over the world.

Saturday 7th December 2024

 Venue: Cox Green Community Centre   1pm-3pm

Christmas Social - Exhibition themed workshop

Workshop, food and drinks.

Tuesday 14th January 2025

 Venue: Zoom 7.30-9.30pm

Cas Holmes - Artist and Author

Cas Holmes is an artist and writer of Romani descent and is interested in the liminal, ‘in between’ spaces connecting land, people and place. Trained in fine art, her work combines mixed media with found materials and stitch and is best described as ‘painting with cloth’.

The history and familiarity of worn cotton, linen and paper mark the passing of time informing the narratives contained within the work.

Tuesday 11th February 2025

 Venue: Zoom 7.30pm-9.30pm

Jackie Cardy - felt maker and embroider

Jacki's  inspiration comes from nature both vast and minute.

From the beautiful jade, lime, grey, and cream of the sea and the  Burren on the West coast of County Clare in Ireland, to the tiny patches of weeds in the undergrowth of the woods.

She uses her sewing machine needle like a pen and have stitched many hundreds of miles over silk, wool, and velvet.

Tuesday 11th March 2025

 Venue: Zoom 7.30pm-9.30pm

Toni Buckby - Embroidery

Toni Buckby is a Sheffield based fine artist working with traditional textile techniques, experimental digital/electronics, and acts of collective making. Her work explores ideas of skilled practice, the value of labour, the visibility of authorship, and the creation and accessibility of practical knowledge. 

Specialising in fine hand embroidery, Toni is currently working on a PhD with Sheffield Hallam University and the Victoria & Albert Museum looking at how fine art practice can be used to investigate, reconstruct, interpret, and present fragile and inaccessible Blackwork embroideries.

Tuesday 8th April 2025

 Venue: Cox Green Community Centre  -  7.30pm-9.30pm

Dawn Thorne

Dawn is an author and textile artist, Her current work looks to her own movement of stitching through cloth, weaving and the action of pulling dye through a silk screen.

Tuesday 13th May 2025

 Venue: Cox Green Community Centre  -  7.30pm-9.30pm

Harriet Riddell

Harriet will inspire us with her machine skills and stories of her extensive travels.

Tuesday 10th June 2025

 Venue: Cox Green Community Centre  7pm-9pm

Cathy Corbishley-Michel

Catherine Corbishley-Michel was a pathologist at St George’s Hospital from 1983 to 2014. She uses the Cyanotype process to create her impressive work.

PLUS COLLECTION OF EXHIBITION WORK!

Tuesday 8th July 2025

 Venue: Cox Green Community Centre  7.30pm-9.30pm

Summer Social

Workshop with Dawn Thorne