Made in Europe - Frieda Oxenham

Frieda Oxenham, United Kingdom - Troubled Waters

During the winter of 2015 - 2016 there was major flooding in the Scottish Borders and record water levels were recorded all over the country. That was where Troubled Waters began.

Raw edge applique, hand and machine quilting, hand beaded and embellished

Commercial batik and hand dyes, embroidery threads, beads.

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Made in Europe - Karin Østergaard

Karin Østergaard, Danmark - Black Sun

I am fond of the starlings. When they come back to Denmark they give the signal that the spring season is close. In the autumn enormous amounts of starlings get together to get ready to fly south again. Black sun is that called.

Machine pieced, machine and hand embroidered, machine quilted

Linen, cotton and synthetic fabrics

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Made in Europe - Elsbeth Nusser-Lampe

Elsbeth Nusser-Lampe, Germany - Ranunculus and Myosotis

Ranunculus and Myosotis are small flowers growing on meadows.They are for most people unspectacular but their beauty is remarkable.

The quilt pick up the tradition of botanical painting and art and transfers it in textile art.

Collage, printed with selfmade stamps, machine quilting

Fabric in different qualities -cotton, synthetic viscose, mixed quality, tissue paper, acrylic paint, painted bondaweb

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Made in Europe - Sandra Newton

Sandra Newton, United Kingdom - One Day

Part of a body of work looking back to the sixties. Inspired by Solzhenitsyn's account of life in one of Stalin's labour camps, 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich',  which was published in a momentary thaw of censorship and with the approval of Krushchev, in 1962. The piece incorporates one of Zhukov's reflections on freedom and the commentary of George Lukacs which defined the social and political significance of this work ... questions which have piercing relevance to us in Europe today.

Monoprint, collagraphy, printing, spraying with various acrylic based mediums. Raw edge applique. Free machine stitched.

Evolon, Abaca paper, lens tissue, tissue paper, lutradur.

The black lettering at the base is 'One day' in cyrillic.

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Made in Europe - Alicia Merrett

Alicia Merrett, United Kingdom - The Long (English) Village

There are a number of 'long' villages in England.  They lie between a river and a road. A few houses may stray onto the other side of the road, but not usually to the other side of the river, where there are fields, either wild, cultivated, or pastures. My daughter lives in one such village, which extends over a mile and a half, subdivided into the 'upper' area and the 'lower' area.  It is 2,000 years old! Landmarks of the village are the pub, which acts as centre for the community, a Bed and Breakfast if the village is in a touristic area, and a playground for children; maybe a post office with a shop attached. In my daughter's village there was one but it closed 10 years ago.  Wind turbines are now more common. This is inspired by my daughter's village but not a portrait of it.

Freehand cutting, machine piecing, fusing, machine quilting.

Hand-dyed cotton sateen fabrics, commercial fabrics, cotton and polyester threads.

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Made in Europe - Uta Lenk

Uta Lenk, Germany - Imagined Dialogue (text messages 5)

A juxtaposition of a famous poem by German poet Bertold Brecht on the issue of war and peace, and lines by John Lennon - both edited to a certain degree - expresses my thoughts about the current political situation in Afghanistan, and what could happen if there was no war.

Machine stitched

Snow-dyed fabric

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Made in Europe - Amelia Leigh

Amelia Leigh, United Kingdom - The Parcelled Land

The land in Britain has been parcelled up since the land seizure after the Norman conquest, when it was taken by force. Today's landscape would be very different if this had not happened. And, these parcels of land, with their hedges and walls, produce a beautiful patchwork effect when seen from above.

Whole cloth painted using thickened Procion dyes, machine quilting

Cotton, threads

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