As we walked around the exhibition halls at the Festival of Quilts out of the corner of my eye I kept getting glimpses of a gallery full of colour, and there’s a lot of colour in those halls. But these bursts of colour were different, as you’ll see.
Eventually as we worked our way around the suppliers and amongst the quilts on display it was time to stop and enjoy the Colorminds gallery. Colorminds are a Dutch group of eight art quilters who’ve worked together since 2013 and who aim to inspire each other while creating high quality colour driven textile art.
In their display titled ‘Colour Relationships’ they showed seven series of how colours interact visually and emotionally, highlighting contrast and harmony and how hue, tone and intensity along with warm and cool colours influence each other.
I took way too many pictures of this exhibition to show here, but even with this relatively small selection I think you’ll be able to see why I was wowed.
I’m not surprised that I was drawn to the quilts shown above and immediately below, as they all are ‘my colours’ so I guess it’s natural to be pulled towards those. But the more you look, the more you see - as with everything, but the level of detail on each of these quilts is definitely to be admired and something to aim for, that’s for sure.
The following quilts aren’t in my natural colour palette, or not fully anyway, but I was also drawn to these especially the dots and detail on the one below. It’s mind blowing isn’t it?
I’m so glad I spent some time looking at and enjoying these quilts, and I’m also glad that I didn’t rush over to them at first glance, but instead let them tease and tempt me until it was time!
And as good as these quilts looked individually, displayed as a series you really get the whole picture of how the colour relationships work. It was hard though to capture the overall effect like this from each series of quilts, which was a shame really, but I had to share one of these series photos (chair and all) to help explain the complete mind blowing-ness of this colourful gallery of quilts.
Even looking back at these photos now some six months on I can see why people say you need more than one day at the Festival of Quilts, I think you’d definitely take more in but I also think you’d still never quite have had your fill!