Midlands’s textile artist, Bren Boardman, will be exhibiting her wall hangings, framed pictures, lamps, journals and cards in the Coach House Gallery at Winterbourne House and Garden during February 2012.

Bren’s art textiles combines sketches and fragments of old garden poems, placing a strong emphasis on pattern, colour and texture and inspired by the beautiful flowers and foliage of the countryside and traditional cottage gardens.  She uses a wide array of techniques including hand-painting, silk screen printing, photo transfer and thread painting with machine embroidery from sketchbook to final outcomes of her original works.

This solo exhibition, installed by freelance Creative Exhibition Designer Emma House, includes a collection of new, recent and earlier works using the garden for inspiration, both at Winterbourne House and Garden as well as the famous Hidcote gardens where she exhibited in the hothouses during the  summer, as part of the National Trust’s Sculpture Trail.

Bren will be teaching a one-day workshop at Compton Verney in April using some of these drawing and stitching techniques inspired by their Impressionist Exhibition and at The Bramble Patch, Northants., during the Autumn.

Exhibition dates now  to 16 March 2012.
Opening hours weekdays 10.00am -4pm; weekends 11.00am-4.00pm
The Coach House Gallery, Winterbourne House & Garden, University of Birmingham, 58 Edgbaston Park Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2RT  Tel 0121 414 3003  www.winterbourne.org.uk
Free admission to gallery and house. Tea Room. Disabled Access
Seven-acre gardens (entry fee).