Members were invited to submit a 6 x 6-inch canvas and given the brief to think “circles and spirals”. This is a fun project designed to encourage even our most reserved members to participate. Expect a wide interpretation of the subject using a broad range of techniques.

The theme for the main exhibition is ‘Influences’ – members were asked to think about a person who influenced them, an event that has particularly influenced something in their life, a painting, a style, a technique (not just an embroidery technique!), a country. They may have been influenced by a grandmother who taught them to sew; a visit to Paris to look at the fashions; the architecture of a cathedral; the seasons of the year, colour, rivers and seas, a painting that they love, politics(!), a book they’ve read …. the list is endless.
Unconstrained by canvas size or media, members were free to explore their everyday influences.

A display of pieces produced during or as a result of any of the Textiles in Oxford workshops they have attended.