I have found out this week that one of my new pieces of work 'Missing' has been selected to be exhibited at Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival. Here is a comment from the email that I received from them:

'Our guest judge Sara Jayne Parsons, Exhibitions Curator at The Bluecoat, Liverpool was very impressed with your work and we are thrilled you will be involved in this years Festival.'

The month long exhibition will be held across two venues Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, and The Gallery At Bank Quay from 19th October 2013.

I've decided to continue exploring this way of working as I'm interested in the balance of the compositions and I'm enjoying the unpredictability of how the pieces evolve after the stitching and ripping of paper. 

I finally have a peaceful house in the day again and have been experimenting with using grey scale charcoal, graphite and ink. I created work in squares aiming for a look like the reverse side of a patchwork quilt that used old letters as the paper pattern, it all looked a little regimented in  blocks so I have broken it up with stitch and reveal using muslin.