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.

Exhibition at European Patchwork Meeting 2023

Among the world’s top 3 textile arts events, the European Patchwork Meeting offers a wide variety of textile artworks every year from patchwork to embroidery, mixed media, dyeing, crochet and lace: all forms of textile art come together for 4 days of frenzy.

 

Considered as the cradle of the Amish community, the villages of the Val d’Argent (Alsace) open their most beautiful venues and welcome an unforgettable festival of colors and materials, with each year more than 30 exhibitions of international artists.

A unique event in the heart of an atypical valley: Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines, Lièpvre and Rombach-le-Franc form an area with a singular mining and industrial history: a major centre for the extraction and exploitation of silver and other minerals.

I am really proud I was one of the exhibitors in 2023.

 

My venue was the Maison des Oeuvres in Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines    

A beautiful space for my Storytelling Coats and Quilts.

We had a wonderful time! It was really busy all the time.

We had lots of visitors from all over the world. Speaking many different languages.
There were times I didn't know what language I was speaking anymore.😂

A different outfit every day

With special thanks to Bernina for sponsoring me.

 Exhibition at Het Quiltfestival Noord-Groningen 

June 9,10,11 2023, Noord- Groningen, Uithuizen, Jacobus de Meerdere Kerk

The exhibition was part of a large Quiltfestival with many exhibitions in different villages.

Most of the visitors came by bike.

I exhibited there with two other Textile artists.

Nienke de Lange

Anke Pradel-Schonknecht

We had lots of visitors: about 1100 during the 3 days we were there.

It was so busy that I didn't have time to visit the other exhibitions myself.
It was great to see so many friends and make lots of new friends too.

 Exhibition Black & White, Flower art Museum

It was great to be part of this exhibition with three of my coats.

I also taught a workshop and gave a little tour of my work.