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| Memory by Frieda Oxenham |
On Friday, I spent
a lovely day in the Scottish Borders, visiting Frieda Oxenham and her
exhibition ’52 Journals’ at the Tweeddale Museum and Gallery, Peebles.
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| Thoughts Fly Swift by Frieda Oxenham |
For an entire year,
Frieda made one journal quilt a week, mainly A4-sized, with one a month 10in
square. They are beautiful little works
of art, and as you would expect from Frieda, each one has a lot of care, attention
and time given to it. It is really
astounding she managed to make them all in just one year given all the other
projects she had on too. If you can make
it to Peebles, it is well worth a visit. The work is exquisite.
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| Some of Frieda Oxenham's inspiration photos |
As well as the
actual quilts, Frieda had a book of the inspirations behind the journal quilts
and a little explanation on how she got from the inspiration to the quilt. When I was there, many visitors were spending
lots of time of time reading and enjoying the work. Frieda was very generous with her time and I
have lots of notes now to go and write an article on her amazing work for
Popular Patchwork.
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| Circle of Creation by Frieda Oxenham |
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| Doodle by Frieda Oxenham |
3 comments:
You took some wonderful photographs! Thanks for the great write-up and fir writing the article. Can't waito see that too.
Thanks Frieda. It was really great to see you and the C&G students loved your gelli-plate advice too!
Looks like it was an inspiring exhibition, pity it's not closer.
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