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earlier I that I had signed up to a group that will be making a work a month to a , last week I looked at the first and it is not what I had in mind when I signed up, as it is a follow on from last years stitch work I thought it was going to expand stitch/technique but it is not, the first one is to make a work about someone you admire, now as I am not even doing people this would send me somewhere I am not currently interested in going, there is a second option, a colour scheme, I thought oh good I’ll work with that because trying new colour ideas is something I wish to explore……but……big but, when I saw the colour scheme with the thoughts of people I admire still in my mind I immediately thought ‘suffragettes’ as the colour scheme is primarily the suffrage colours of green and mauve,


now at first I thought well I could do a work that would use both as I admire the suffragettes immensely but all I seemed to think of was railings, chains, ladies dressed in Edwardian clothes being dragged down the road by dome helmeted police officers and worst of all I then started to see women strapped to tables with think rubber tubes being thrust down their throats till they vomited and bleed…….and I just want to escape from this, I do not want to do a work about all this horror, I am deeply indebted to these people but I am not the person to create a work of art about it, yet it won’t leave me,

so I am thinking of not continuing with the group but as we do not have to have a work finished until the end of the month I think I will leave it for a couple of weeks and perhaps I will be able to see the colours afresh, I am feeling a bit better from having written it down, the problem I and some other people have it seeing pictures in our heads too clearly, yes I know sometimes it is a blessing, opposites, the highs and lows,