COLOUR ME PURPLE AND QUAKER - NOVEMBER 2022

COLOUR ME PURPLE AND QUAKER

 

This is my ‘I’M BACK’ blogpost. My first since 2018. For me, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic did rather get in the way. The desire to produce blogposts was simply not there.

It has been enough over these last three years that I was able to continue having creative ideas and piece and quilt my pieces of textile art. And I was able to mount another exhibition in November 2021 between viral waves.

Of course, the virus hasn’t gone away; we are experiencing another surge as we approach Christmas this year. But hopefully, I will be able to have another exhibition in November 2023, subject to the virus.  



Louise Donovan in Hora on the holy island of Patmos in September 2018
 


 

November 2021 - my Crypt Gallery in St Ives solo exhibition


Now, I am feeling a desire to share my thoughts with those who know and like my work. The title of this blogpost sheds light on one reason why. My exhibition in November 2023 at the Crypt Gallery, St Ives, will be called: ‘COLOUR ME PURPLE AND QUAKER’. The colour purple will

be a key theme in the show – and so too will be my identity as a Quaker attendee.

 

When we lived on the other side of the country a mile or two from the North Sea, I had a Quaker identity as an attender at the Beccles meeting house in Suffolk from 2006 to 2012. Since January this year, I have returned to those roots, this time accompanied by my husband, Rob, and we have done so through the digital wonders of Zoom. Both of us still opt for isolation, given the threat of a virus that can be deadly.

 

I thought you might like to get a taste of some of the work that has already been completed for this show at the Crypt in 2023 – and some of the work that is now in progress. 

 

Work in progress on a pieced version of 'Sunlight through Bars'



Quaker Sixteen in Purple (2022)


 

Doilies set in purple blocks - a work in progress, awaiting stitching and fixing



A Purple Touch of Covid (2022)



 


‘A Quaker Christmas’ - completed in early November 2022 - for display from Advent to Epiphany in our home every year – and in the November 2023 exhibition



To conclude, here is a video of my 2021 show at the Crypt Gallery, St Ives:








Comments

  1. ROB DONOVANNovember 12, 2022 at 4:09 AM

    Wonderful to see the new work in progress - and the completed pieces. A joy, also, to view the video of the show in November 2021 - looking forward to the next exhibition!

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  2. Howard PueNovember 12, 2022 at 8:52 AM

    Beautiful work which displays amazing skill, imagination, and no doubt symbolism. Very nice to see this positive outburst of creativity which ironically resulted at least in part from the pandemic.

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    1. louise donovanNovember 13, 2022 at 10:38 AM

      Every cloud has a purple lining! Thank you so much for your praise - it means a lot.

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