Sonnet 18 Triptych
In 2006 ColourFX, a group I used to belong to, mounted an exhibition based on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18. One of the bard's best known sonnets, it starts with the famous line: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day….?”
The themes of this sonnet are growth, maturity and decay, but also persistence / immortality through lineage (marriage and offspring), and through the poet’s immortal lines. My triptych represents three stages – youth and spring; middle age and late summer; late age and winter - each illustrated by a line from the sonnet. They are:
The Darling Buds of May - Thy Eternal Summer Shall Not Fade - In Eternal Lines to Time
The themes of this sonnet are growth, maturity and decay, but also persistence / immortality through lineage (marriage and offspring), and through the poet’s immortal lines. My triptych represents three stages – youth and spring; middle age and late summer; late age and winter - each illustrated by a line from the sonnet. They are:
The Darling Buds of May - Thy Eternal Summer Shall Not Fade - In Eternal Lines to Time
Exhibited at:
Sonnet 18, ColourFX, Textile Art, Gallery 47, Bloomsbury, London, 2006.
Cowslip Workshops, Launceston, Cornwall, 2006
Loch Lomond Quilt Show, 2007
Expo Magic Quilt, Lyon, France, 2007
Designer Crafts 2008, Society of Designer Craftsmen, The Mall Galleries, London.
Awarded The Polly Weiss prize for Best Use of Colour.
Somerset Art Weeks, The Hawthorns, Godney, Somerset, 2009.
Sonnet 18, ColourFX, Textile Art, Gallery 47, Bloomsbury, London, 2006.
Cowslip Workshops, Launceston, Cornwall, 2006
Loch Lomond Quilt Show, 2007
Expo Magic Quilt, Lyon, France, 2007
Designer Crafts 2008, Society of Designer Craftsmen, The Mall Galleries, London.
Awarded The Polly Weiss prize for Best Use of Colour.
Somerset Art Weeks, The Hawthorns, Godney, Somerset, 2009.