The Kintyre Forum

Went along to the evening Exhibition of Painting with Threads last night at the Guide Hall, what an interesting subject.

Pictures are created using minute thread and I mean minute, one picture has 200 stitches to 1 inch and another over 200 different coloured threads were used on the rocks in the picture (Fairies in the Corn). Obviously at lot of patience, discipline and time spent on each subject - simply amazing.

Silver collection for the Dorchas Fund, well worth a visit. Exhibition continues Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th October.



Closer look at just one section, you would think it had been created using a paint brush !

The people that do these work of arts must have great patience ,i have seen this type of work at our recent craft display up here in Carradale.

I went last night too. It was amazing to listen to Gerry (the artist) talking about his work. There's a piece of work created whilst he was sitting in a shelter waiting for a train at Taynuilt, it was raining and he described the rain in his picture. What an interesting night!

I took a photo of that as well, the colours used were superb - you can see the railtrack effect through the plastic shelter with the raindrops running down it. Each drop had a bead carefully placed in it via invisible thread, I think there were about 200 of them.

How beautiful they are.