Our new range of souvenirs feature a specially commissioned drawing of the Quaker Tapestry Museum/Kendal Meeting House, by local artist and tutor Lynda Gray. Lynda works on location in sketchbooks or on loose sheets of paper using ink and watercolour, sometimes incorporating found papers. Travelling with a sketchbook is a continuing source of inspiration and pleasure to her. As we launch our new product range Lynda talks about her experience drawing the Quaker Tapestry Museum…
“What an interesting challenge this turned out to be. When I was asked if I would do several line and wash drawings of the Quaker Tapestry Museum and Meeting House I was both delighted and slightly apprehensive. Such an important and prominent Kendal building, designed in 1816 by famous Kendal architect Francis Webster on the site of the first Quaker Meeting House. It did present some interesting questions. Inextricably linked to the buildings around it, how to make it the clear focal point? Which was more important, the front, grander and more impressive, or the back, the main entrance to the building? What to leave in and what to leave out – impossible to include everything? Could I use the brightly painted doors and gates as a contrast to the limestone and slate? How much foliage to include?
Several months later, after patiently waiting for the important building work to be completed and the scaffolding to come down, I finished the drawings. I hope you like them and that I have done justice to such a beautiful building”
Lynda’s beautiful line and wash drawing features on our new souvenir magnet, bookmark and notebook.
All our new souvenirs are perfect to keep or give and are small enough to post inside a gift card.
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