My exhibition Drawn Thread Work - samplers & specimens is open in the Fusion Gallery, Customs House, South Shields. Scroll down their page for my bit! "Paddy Killer draws onto all sorts of materials. In this exhibition they are glass and silk. The new experimental work on glass, some of which is then fired, is [...]
The work for my exhibition at the Customs House Gallery in South Shields is ongoing. I am booked in to use the water jet cutter on 1st November. There have been a few setbacks, but I am on track for the opening on 17th November. I have drawn 6 wall hung pieces, 8 collar shapes [...]
The Brit & the Great Bear is in the 62 Group exhibition, Making Space, at the Spring Knitting & Stitching Shows from 27 to 30 April 2017. 129x93cm 2016 Drawing, painting and machine embroidery on silk. Painted wooden frame. Made for the 62 Group exhibition, Making Space, at Macclesfield Silk Museum from 18.05.16 to 03.09.16. Then touring to the Spring Knitting and [...]
Faces, Figures, & Fabrics, Paddy Killer's exhibition at Newcastle Arts Centre, ends on Friday, so very little time to get down there. Hope you manage/managed to get to see it. All the exhibits are for sale. Also for sale are Greetings Cards & packs of Paddy's postcards. This is the article by David Whetstone in the Newcastle Chronicle PADDY'S STATEMENT from the exhibition [...]
The Brit and the Great Bear, has been selected for the 62 Group exhibition Making Space at Macclesfield Silk Museum. Drawing, painting and machine embroidery on silk. Painted wooden frame 129x93cm The Atlas Coelestis from the observations at Greenwich by the first Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed (1646-1719), was published posthumously in 1729. It depicts the [...]
This is the christmas card for Vets4Pets Carlisle, commissioned by Lisa Kerr who is the vet. It is the latest I have done for her, the others being last year's Christmas card, and pet sympathy and get-well-soon cards. Claude, a British Blue cat, and is the winner of a competition Lisa ran on her practice website for the [...]
Canto #3 is now finished. The subject is the entrance to hell as observed by Dante and Virgil from Dante's Divine Comedy. They watch as the neutrals swirl around, and Charon is seen ferrying his passengers across the river Styx. It is a private commission. The size is w133 x h131. The techniques are drawing, painting [...]
pillow talk and consequences of mary swift have been selected for the exhibition 62 Group • NOW! which opened today at Upfront Gallery near Penrith
62 group : now is a new exhibition of work by the members of the 62 Group, and opens at Upfront Gallery on Tuesday 17th March, and ends 10th May. Further information, opening times etc Here is the invite to the 62 Group PV on Saturday 21st March 2-4pm. Paddy is leading a workshop, Material Illumination, on Saturday 18th April. Material [...]
35x28 cm drawing in indian ink on paper wooden frame rubbed with graphite the drawing of Lola the Chow Chow has been presented to her owners. Lola was the winner of the competition for the Face of Christmas at Vets4Pets Carlisle. It was commissioned by Lisa Kerr, the vet and practice partner. It is one of the series [...]
