Katharine Swailes and Caron Penney are artists, tapestry weavers, and educators. Alongside their drawings and paintings, they create wall-based artworks using the ancient technique of handwoven tapestry.

Swailes produces wall based handwoven abstract tapestries, a minimal number of techniques and materials are used on these works. She uses traditional materials wool linen cotton and gilt. A woven cotton warp castellated selvedges create the top and bottom of the works, a reference to her past creating costume, from linens cottons.

 Penney’s tapestries are grid locked. A love of pattern, systems, and repetition are central to her hand woven textiles. At the core of her work are references to street architecture and structural comparisons between the warp and the weft. Surrounded by pattern, the urban landscape feeds Penney’s interest in humanity. Penney’s ideas develop through observation, photography, sketches and the resulting tapestries. 

Concertina set of 6 postcards with perforated edges.