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Welcome to my website
I hope you enjoy browsing through my gallery pages and finding out more about my work as a textile artist and teacher.
I am involved in a wide range of textile related arts including: Art quilts, textile wall-hangings and contemporary embroidery. I enjoy experimenting with new techniques and all forms of surface decoration.
I am an enthusiastic member of several groups and organisations:
- Anglia Textile Works - a contemporary textile exhibiting group.
- Alveva Quilters - founding member.
- Quilters' Guild of The British Isles - I have served as Educational Officer and as Regional Co-ordinator for Norfolk and Cambridgeshire.
Yvonne Brown and her men
STOP PRESS: Yvonne Brown To Teach in New Zealand
I am so excited to have been invited to teach at the Remarkable Symposium in Queenstown, New Zealand 18-23 April 2011 - see you all there!
Spanish Quilting Retreat
Come and join me in Spain 10-18 October 2009 at the Spanish Quilting Retreat
We'll explore a range of 'melting and burning' techniques and a whole load of other stuff. Take a look at:
Spanish Quilt Retreat:
The villa at La Drova
About my gallery pages
In order to make my website as interesting and useful as possible, my gallery pages contain high quality images of my work. Please be patient, as these images may take a moment or two to load.
I am extremely grateful to Kevin Mead of Art Van Go for his excellent photography.
I hope you enjoy my gallery pages.
If you would like to get in touch with me, please email: Yvonne Brown
I find my inspiration in many places, from the floor of Ely Cathedral to rusty seaside pilings.
See my work
My work will be on display at the following venues and events, or by appointment at my studio in Norfolk:
13 Jul - 12 Sep, Minerva Arts Centre, Wales
My quilt Rust On A Hot Tin Roof, along with a selection of Thin Blue Line quilts by
members of Contemporary Quilt, will be featured in the summer exhibition at the Minerva Arts Centre in Llanidloes
20-23 Aug 2009, NEC, Birmingham
4 Sep 2009, Hever Castle Patchwork and Quilting Exhibition
Until 30 Sep 2009, Quilt Museum and Gallery, York
My quilt Deep Sea Pearls will be featured in the Pearls, Pearls Pearls Exhibition at St. Anthony's Hall, York, YO1 7PW
PLUS: See my work on Workshop On The Web
Link: www.workshopontheweb.com