Lynn Saults
(Nottingham & London Exhibitions)

“This year, after I got the last of three homeschooled kids into college, I had enough hands free to start making the things I've been seeing in my imagination for many years. I call my works ‘narrative textiles’ as they all involve some form of fiber, knitting, weaving, spinning, stitchery, several kinds of felting, printing original photos on silk, beading and various sorts of construction in combination with original poetry or ‘lyrics’.

I have discovered that, even if you are just an old granny who only knits and felts and can't paint with oils or compose music, you can STILL have an art-voice.... and it DOES NOT have to be polite.

So far I've (mostly) worked on four groups of pieces:

‘Confronting Mortality’: working with/through the grief/rage over my brother's death and other events of the past few years.

‘Demented Little Rabbits’: surrealist art about the pointlessness of art, trying to create a fine balance between children's plush and road kill.

‘Three Felted Vessels With Incantations’: If art were a person, we would have a very complicated relationship.

‘Dream Houses and Doll Houses’: I'm currently working on pieces about the interpenetration of women's bodies and houses, how memories of our homes leak out of our childhoods and into our dreams.”