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| Sue Payne with her quilt Roofscape |
Whilst at the EPM
in Alsace, I spent a very pleasant hour and a half manning the SAQA stand with
Sue Payne. I hadn’t met Sue before, but
she was lovely as was her quilt, which you can see with her in the photo.
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| Berlin Reichstag by Hilde van Schardenburg |
The SAQA exhibition
was called ‘Wide Horizons’ and I had entered a piece which hadn’t been
accepted. Naturally, I was
disappointed. Often I have heard people
say that “it’s not your work, it just didn’t fit in with the exhibition and to
make the exhibition work well, there needs to be some kind of cohesion”. Although I understand the sentiment, it wasn’t
until I looked at the Wide Horizons show that I realised how true it was. The piece I had submitted would have stood
out like a sore thumb besides these works. For once in my life I had used bright colours – and guess what? – most of
these were beautifully subdued.
Size-wise too, mine would have taken up a lot of space and that would
have restricted the numbers of other pieces that would have been on show. It was very interesting to see. And whilst I’m not saying that was the reason
my piece was not accepted – it may not have been good enough, the jurors may
not have liked it etc – it helped me realise why sometimes you get
rejections.
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| Gillian Cooper Chaos |
In the meantime,
here are some more of the lovely quilts that were on show.
2 comments:
Thank you for these Gillian. I love your piece although can understand how it wouldn't have been a good fit. Maybe you could put some pics into the SAQA UK Yahoo site for those of us who couldn't get there this year.
Good idea Maggi. I'll add some or email the apt person tomorrow.
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