Aylesbury Outer Ring: our artistic Response an exhibition showing at Queens Park Arts Center, Aylesbury

Private view: Thursday 21st March 2024 19.00 – 21.00hrs

Please let Janet or Liz know directly if you are able to join them.

MEET THE ARTISTS: Wednesday 27th March and Wednesday 24th April 11.00 – 15.00 hrs

Janet and Liz invite you to share the unexpected joy of their incidental ‘art walk’ beginning, six years ago, through to the creation of related stitched textiles and beyond to setting up this exhibition. Come and view the diverse perspectives in their photo books and workbooks, and wathch them practise their craft.

JANET EDMONDS WORKSHOP: 15TH APRIL 10.OO – 16.00HRS

ROUTES AND ROOTS: STITCHING ROUND AND ROUND

Janet has observed circles in many different contexts whilst walking the Outer Aylesbury Ring, from marks on the ground and in the trees, encircling footpaths, cyclical variations in the weather, the sound of country church bells rung in rounds and the memory of the continuum of generation that have come and gone across history.

These elements will be the inspiration for exploring surface through stitching, with techniques including couching, whipping, knotting and weaving.

LIZ HOLLIDAY TALK: Saturday 20th April 11.00 – 11.30hrs

Routes and Roots: Human footprints revealed in stitched maps

Liz has a lifelong love of maps. She uses both Ordnance Survey Explorer and Geological Survey sources to fire her understanding of the landscape she walks. Her exhibition maps detail all thirty parishes on the Outer Aylesbury Ring, together with evidence of man’s imprint over many centuries, from lost villages and castles to tumuli and church towers. Liz is planning for the individual maps in her installation to be purchased by donation, as a community fund-raiser.