At Last

At long last I have got around to posting about my day out last Sunday in Lincoln.  Two of my friends, Mary and Liz both are members of Nolitex and they had an exhibition of their work in Easton Gardens.  If you have never been there it is well worth a trip down to Lincoln to see this beautiful place which is being so lovingly restored.  If you hurry you can see the Nolitex exhibition which is due to close on Bank Holiday Monday.  Just in case you can't then here are a few of the things you can see:

This is by Carly Gilliatt - a favourite of mine - Poppies

Mary's The White Wood - a combination of Mary's own photographs of eucalyptus trees and distant views of the buildings of Easton Walled Gardens in which both aspects are reduced to their simplest forms.  I took a couple of photographs of this large hanging but did like the one through the trees where the bough of the tree formed an arch above.

This was one of Chas's favourites - hanging discs by Liz - Moon Garden.  These reminded me of Dream Catchers and came in several different sizes.  You can see how they looked as you approached this grand old tree and below I have shown you a sample:

Moon Garden is Liz's interpretation of the garden at night - "snapshots glimpsed in moonlight moving as the viewer moves changing with the shadows cast by a full moon.  Sometimes in silhouette, sometimes in soft silvery light."

A close up of one of Mary's "sticks" - first inspired by Aboriginal grave posts.  Some of the posts showed the growth of flowers from seed to flower to decay whilst others depicted Aboriginal symbols.

As we walked up through the archway where it was lovely and cool (it was a very hot day on the Sunday) we came across this building with this rather lovely decorated door with it's garland of apples contrasting beautifully with the colour of the door by Joan Richardson.

Eventually we came across Liz's pocket watch

Made up of zillions of tiny faces (more of this on Liz's own blog). Totally fascinating to stand and look at in great detail - probably my favourite - a mixture of "Time" and claywork, two things I love (and faces too).

Even the fob was included and the chain was made, like the watch, from Cloud Clay (for sale from Liz).

The next exhibit was one I had been waiting to see - Liz's garden of flowers made from old gloves - yes, old gloves.

Do visit Liz's blog and see the Latin names for these flowers.

And here I am with the talented lady herself.

Just before the final exhibit Chinese Lanterns by Kate Pike:

There are many more exhibits by many talented artists and I do urge you to pay the Gardens a visit if you can over this weekend.  Mary's books were a particular favourite of mine, Janet Wain's "soldier soldier", Sally Malloy's "bedecked chair" and Judith Burnett with her "Seed Packets" to name just a few.

It was a lovely day out - made all the better with meeting up with my two friends who I haven't seen for months.