Last week I was enjoying myself in Yorkshire and the NE of England. The weather was lovely and the countryside looked beautiful!
It's well known that some of the best blindmakers in the country operate from this region, so I was busy showing the bones of our new roller fabric collection (that will come out in August) to
Regal,
Dixon Fox,
Blind Fashion and
Walkers, all of which are brilliant top-notch blind makers.
While in the area I also went to the
Baltic Center of Contempoary Art in Gateshead :
Lunch at the
Baltic Kitchen was finished by a visit to Floor G, where an Norwegian artist Ida Ekblad was exhibiting. She'd been working with an English playright to create stage sets with these imposing figures :
It was the second floor where they displayed the NI artist Tony Swain that I probably enjoyed the Baltic the most. He paints on newsprint with acrylic, and there's often a little bit of text you can read that gives you a clue as to what the painting is about. They are all beautifully coloured, and it was a real pleasure to have the lovely art student guard tell me what she thought each painting was saying. :
On the 4th floor there's an unmissable viewing platform where you can see kittywakes and their nests on the small precarious ledges :
The 6th floor gives you a great view of Gateshead and the Sage centre. It's also a great place to have a pot of tea ;
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