Corris Uchaf, Wales
Posts tagged Snowdonia
Gardening today
Aug 15th
Or at least for most of the day so far. I did manage to spend an hour in the shop pressing some of the squares I am making for the new quilt top.
Since then though the day has been too nice and sunny in Snowdonia, so I have spent the time outside in the garden. Makes a pleasant change.
We have an old bath, so have sunk that in the ground to create a bog garden to be filled with water lilies and other boggy plants. As we live on a steep hillside we need to face the font of it with a small slate wall to hide it, and that’s the next job.
There are plenty of natural boggy areas in all the streams running of the foothills of Cadair Idris, but this one will be different and a bit of a feature. Hopefully.
We can then level the rest of the area and grass it (lawn would be too posh a word in this rural and damp environment) so that we have somewhere to sit and maybe even build a BarBQ as well.
Back quilting tomorrow and preparing for some joint work later in the week, just needed to take advantage of the weather and get some exercise whilst still being creative albeit in a different environment.
Cottage Art Gallery
Jul 22nd
Visited Dick Summers today, painter and owner of the Cottage Art Gallery.
This is situated on a remote foothill of Cadair Idris, high above Dolgellau in Snowdonia, Wales. An interesting drive along some steep narrow roads set amongst breathtaking Welsh scenery.
I went because of an interest in oil painting and artists, but also because of the isolated location and to see if I could re-use Dick’s colour composition within my fabric designs.
Yep is the short answer, at least for the flora – but can I portray the naked form in fabric? Not so sure there – a) who would model for me and b) skin tones are much more difficult to replicate in fabric than in oil.
An interesting question though. Has it ever been done, to represent a real nude model on a quilt rather than on canvas?
