Highlights from 2024-2025

BRNO Patchwork Meeting 2026

April 24-26 2026, Velethry Brno, Pavillion A1

The BRNO Patchwork Meeting is the largest international Textile and creative exhibition in  Eastern Europe.

Visitors eagerly waiting at the door

The venue for the quilt show was the beautiful A1 pavillion, where I had my own gallery. at the back : Dreamcoats.

The organisation provided me with  ample wall-space and 6 mannequins for my exhibition.

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I had made a plan in advance how I wanted to hang the pieces on the wall, so we started with those. Then we had to clothe the mannequins, which sounds easier than it was.

Forest of friends

It's a jungle out there.

A Pride of Peacocks

The Snake Pit

The Beekeeper

UnderWonderWorld

Seam*Stress

We met lots of old and new friends. It was nice to see young children and teenagers visiting the show too.

It was great to see the bobbins were there as well.

I was one of the judges for the Quilt Competition 50 shades. There were lots of beautiful pieces entered. Here are the winning quilts.

3rd prize Silence after the game by Monika Malinova  

2nd prize Shadow Guardian by Sylvia Ignatowska

1st prize Winter Morning by Maryte Collard

This year’s edition featured an exceptionally strong international presence. The global SAQA collection titled “Blue” and the traditional French EPM collection drew significant attention. Lovers of classic patchwork were captivated by the 10th-anniversary works of the Polish guild and the creations of the Patchfanynky club, this year’s “Star of Czech Classics.”

 The guest country was Denmark, featuring a selection of the best works by local artists. Galleries from Germany, France, Lithuania, Hungary, Switzerland, and the Netherlands were also present. Notable highlights included the “Dream Cloaks” collection by Dutch textile designer Marijke van Welzen and the Swiss guild’s “Round Robin” project.

Czech designers were also well represented—Jana Dohnalová, Jana Haklová, Zuzana Dolínková, and Andrea Landovská presented their galleries. Club projects were brought by the Bohemia Patchwork Club Prague and the 1st Moravian Patchwork Club with their “Birds” collection. The younger generation also returned to the exhibition in the form of a gallery by students from the Secondary School of Design in Lysá nad Labem.

Patchwork & Quiltdagen 2024

In April 2024 I had  a big exhibition at the P & Q days, the Netherlands.
I was fortunate to have 2x 20 meters of exhibition space for my coats and quilts.

This time I wanted to exhibit 20 of my coats. Which was a bit of a challenge as I don't possess 20 busts.. At the moment I was planning the exhibition I had 7 , I could borrow 3 from the organisers of the show. By accident I found 2 more secondhand, they were mens busts, but I didn't care. I remembered an exhibition of a Dutch Fiber Artist who exhibited capes flat on the wall. I decided to try it out at home and came to the conclusion it should be possible to do that as well. I made a plan on paper to see which coats and quilts should go where.

Part of the plan

Highlights from 2023 , 2024

Cherrywood Challenge 2023

To my delight I won 3rd prize in the Monarch Cherrywood Challenge 2023.

Here is my quilt Monarch Sanctuary.

I used the Cherrywood fabrics bundle and a lot of black fabric paint.

The collection debuted in Houston, Texas in 2023 and travelled for 2 years through the USA.

 

You can read more about this challenge here:
 Monarch Cherrywood Challenge

World of Threads Festival

From October 2023 till January 2024 the World of Threads festival was held in Oakville, Canada. 

It is a large Textile Art Festival with lots of exhibitions.
Something that's different about World of Threads Festival is that the curators let the art guide them. Festival curators Gareth Bate and Dawne Rudman don't have predetermined curatorial ideas or impose their concepts on the artists. Each new festival is a blank slate. Group shows develop entirely out of the submissions they receive. To find their main gallery exhibitions they look for connections, relationships and common themes among the thousands of artworks submitted. These works are made by hundreds of artists from around the world. Often artists seem to be on the same wavelength during a particular period. Over time, through many hours of sorting through artworks, the exhibition themes just emerge and become clear to them.

My dress Flora was selected for Catwalk III

Catwalk III 

My friend Ella happened to be in the vicinity.

Here is an overview of the exhibitions:

 worldofthreadsfestival 2023

 

Published in Quiltnieuws 158, the magazine of the Dutch Quilters Guild

A nice interview with many photos about my career as a Textile Artist.

Exhibition in Gallery EINDeloos
January- March 2 2024, 5 coats

A lovely Gallery in Heuvel Shopping Centre in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.