I love Kaffe Fassett's work, so had been looking forward to his exhibition 'A Celebration of Flowers' by him with Candace Bahouth at the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath. The exhibition runs until 2 September and is well worth seeing. Kaffe mainly has large quilts with riots of floral displays on them on show, and in between the quilts are Candace's fabulous mosaic framed mirrors, there are about a dozen at least, half of them have sold, and indeed I found myself imagining where I could have one at home. There are also other mosaic pieces, from benches to totems and shoes. Looking at her website enables you to see the fabulous pieces. I was intrigued to know more about her, this is what her website says:
'A graduate in Fine Art from Syracuse University, Bahouth settled into a Methodist Chapel in rural Somerset , where for many years she developed her unique facility for painterly and sculptural expression in weaving.
Since 1988, in order to make her art more widely accesssible, and to encourage others into creative activity, she has concentrated on needlepoint, over eighty designs for which have been published.
Between these two creative concerns, Bahouth has explored her interest in mosaics, using found material from nature as well as fragments of china.
In the summer of 1996, a highly praised retrospective exhibition was mounted by the American Museum in Bath, the best attended single artist show in the museum's history.
In 2008 a joint exhibition with Kaffe Fassett at the Victoria Gallery in Bath was also a best attended show. In 2018 there will be another joint show with Kaffe Fassett at the Victoria Gallery from May to September'.
I would love to know how Candace make the beautiful ceramic flowers in her pieces, maybe like icing sugar flowers they are moulded by hand.
The only disappointment was not being able to take photographs, so you have to click on the links to see why it's worth going to see the exhibition.
From there we went to look round Beaux Arts Gallery where there was a lot of fabulous work on show, but it was Jill Fanshawe Kato's ceramics that really attracted my attention. I've regretted not buying her work before so this time bought a small piece with a lovely bird on it
and liked it so much that when a friend said they were visiting Bath the next day, I asked if they'd buy the peacock dish for me
Both pieces are fabulous, but I'm really pleased I didn't leave the peacocks behind!
Here's the bird on the dish, I've put it in second because the blog looked strange with the lower half of the dish showing
'A graduate in Fine Art from Syracuse University, Bahouth settled into a Methodist Chapel in rural Somerset , where for many years she developed her unique facility for painterly and sculptural expression in weaving.
Since 1988, in order to make her art more widely accesssible, and to encourage others into creative activity, she has concentrated on needlepoint, over eighty designs for which have been published.
Between these two creative concerns, Bahouth has explored her interest in mosaics, using found material from nature as well as fragments of china.
In the summer of 1996, a highly praised retrospective exhibition was mounted by the American Museum in Bath, the best attended single artist show in the museum's history.
In 2008 a joint exhibition with Kaffe Fassett at the Victoria Gallery in Bath was also a best attended show. In 2018 there will be another joint show with Kaffe Fassett at the Victoria Gallery from May to September'.
I would love to know how Candace make the beautiful ceramic flowers in her pieces, maybe like icing sugar flowers they are moulded by hand.
The only disappointment was not being able to take photographs, so you have to click on the links to see why it's worth going to see the exhibition.
From there we went to look round Beaux Arts Gallery where there was a lot of fabulous work on show, but it was Jill Fanshawe Kato's ceramics that really attracted my attention. I've regretted not buying her work before so this time bought a small piece with a lovely bird on it
Here's the bird on the dish, I've put it in second because the blog looked strange with the lower half of the dish showing
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