What’s going down in the Hood?

Local art and craft collective Made in the Hood are currently showing their work at the Runway Gallery in the Base, Greenham. Their work spans a range of art & crafts, often using traditional materials or techniques, with a contemporary edge.

Erica Adams learns age old basketry techniques from around the world, employing willow grown in her garden to make a backpack and traditional Irish skibs, used for serving potatoes.

Jane Baikie often works in mixed media. Her collage shows an atmospheric view of Donnington Castle, incorporating printed history of the place.

Tessa Kirby's oils and Pearl Hailstone's acrylics and watercolours demonstrate their skills in landscape painting.

Ceramics are represented in different forms. Jo Arkell has combined her skills in throwing porcelain with her Murano glass bead-making in delightful trinket boxes. Teresa Munn is showing textured and scripted ceramics which reference memories of places, while Helen Williams' ceramic sculptures show the character of creatures real and imagined.

Textiles range from wire to silk to eco dyed fabrics. Jane Fullman has developed her wire lace making and is showing a wall piece alongside her delicate jewellery. Christine Highnett's eco dyed fabrics are then stitched to emphasise the delicacy of the leaf and flower structures.

Helen Mortimer's colourful silk paintings lift the winter gloom and take us to architectural scenes in distant places.

https://www.madeinthehood.co.uk

https://thebasegreenham.co.uk/

The exhibition runs to January 5, free entry, open daily, (check website for Christmas opening), parking, Honesty café on site at The Base, Greenham Business Park.