Lucy Sugden

Tapestry and Woven Art

A glimpse & glimmer of garden life

Ella and the Caterpillars

by Lucy Sugden | 26 November 2024 | Blog | 0 Comments

Ella and the CaterpillarsThe deconstruction and reconstruction of a Spirella corset.I was intrigued by the role the Spirella Company played in making Irvin parachutes during the war, photo’s I found showed the Spirella buildings ballroom with rows of sewing machines...

Eclipse

by Lucy Sugden | 3 September 2024 | Blog | 0 Comments

Eclipse The ideas for this piece first began to accumulate in my mind during 2022. I had woven my wasp (Paper) and hoverfly (Lagoon) wings and was continuing to consider the beauty and importance of insects that people often fear or loathe. As a member of the...

Dahlia Field – Roger Aylett

by Lucy Sugden | 1 September 2024 | Blog | 1 Comment

Dahlia Field – a portrait for Roger Aylett Passion Determination Vision, an Eastern Region Textile Exhibition at St Albans Museum until 3rd November 2024 Roger Aylett (1934-2010) was a pioneering award-winning horticulturist and founder of Aylett Nurseries in St...

London – George Bernard Shaw

by Lucy Sugden | 16 July 2024 | Blog | 0 Comments

Passion Determination Vision is an Eastern Region Textile Forum exhibiton held at St Albans Museum from 12th July-3rd November 2024. An exhibition highlighting and celebrating local movers and shakers, a portrait exhibition, but not in any conventional sense; instead...

80% (Disappearance)

by Lucy Sugden | 20 November 2023 | Blog | 0 Comments

80% (Disappearance) Woven Tapestry This was quite an emotional piece to weave. I have always loved butterflies and moths, as a young girl I remember the buddleia bush in the back garden being full of butterflies in the summer so to learn that since the 1970’s there...

Tangerine Trees (Lucy In The Sky)

by Lucy Sugden | 13 July 2023 | Blog | 2 Comments

Tangerine Trees When I was a small girl I imagined Lucy, from The Beetles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, was floating around in a sky full of stars in her night gown. So when I began to consider ideas for the, A sixties Celebration "Flower Power" exhibition with...

Sustainable Art Practice

by Lucy Sugden | 8 January 2023 | Blog | 0 Comments

How Sustainable am I? In December 2022 Jo at Sust. Consulting ran a series of articles highlighting sustainable businesses in and around Letchworth Garden City. I was delighted to be featured and thought I would share Jo's article here as other people can me into...

Cascade

by Lucy Sugden | 6 May 2022 | Blog | 0 Comments

Cascade I can often have an idea or a title for a piece of work long before I develop and create it, Cascade was one of those ideas. The title first popped into my head at the beginning of 2019, I can date it as I mentioned it in an Instagram post on the 8th of...

Pollinators Paradise

by Lucy Sugden | 15 April 2022 | Blog | 0 Comments

Pollinators Paradise This tapestry was woven for the Eastern Region Textiles Forum exhibition with RHS Hyde Hall, Changing Earth. Work for the exhibition was created in response to the RHS report gardening in a changing climate. Pollinators Paradise is a celebration...

Spirella Unbound

by Lucy Sugden | Oct 16, 2024 | News

Spirella Unbound 28th November -21st December 2024 The Broadway Gallery, 2 The Arcade, Letchworth Garden City, SG6 3ES Herts Textile Arts Group are delighted to bring you an exhibiton inspired by the history of The Spirella Company in Letchworth Garden City. Join...

Eclipse in the Letchworth Open

by Lucy Sugden | Sep 18, 2024 | News

I am delighted to be showing my woven tapestry Eclispe as it takes it's second flight, this time to the Letchworth Open at The Broadway Gallery. Spot my woven moths in Hertfordshire's largest exhibition from September 18th -November 9th. For full information about the...

Craft in the Courtroom – St Albans Museum

by Lucy Sugden | Jul 12, 2024 | News

Join me and other Eastern Region Textile Forum members at this free, drop in event at St Albans Museum. I'll have various looms with me and will be weaving on my circle looms, which you will be wecome to have a go at weaving on if you wish. Attendees are encouraged...

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