Crafts Magazine Review

I was thrilled to read the CRAFTS MAGAZINE's review of AN EYE FOR THE DETAIL! I am posting it here for you all to read:

Aerialscapes (detail), Ekta Kaul, hand-dyed, embroidered and needle-punched.

An Eye for Detail, a mixed media show focusing on applied arts in the home, is on at Ruthin Craft Centre until 14 June

The show looks at ceramics, textiles and furniture, asking questions about their design and making process. It’s curated by Gregory Parsons and, as he explains, the idea ‘is to give people an overview of the whole or some aspect of the design and making process – something which I feel is very important and often un-considered when viewing craft’.

Textiles make up the main body of the show and artists featured include a roll call of the great and the good in the field. Look out for Kate Blee, Eleanor Pritchard and Ptolemy Mann, as well as newcomers such Ekta Kaul, who creates textile ‘aerialscapes’ inspired by photographs of fields. Kaul’s silk panels are worked with parallel tracks of embroidered and needle-punched lines in varying sizes and colour which add textural interest to the bright surface materials.

Furniture is represented by Shin Azumi and Sarah Kay as well as Angus Ross whose gently curving wooden chairs and stools are both deceptively simple and surprisingly beautiful. And the show is rounded off with ceramics by Jacob van der Beugel, Helen Felcey and James and Tilla Waters.