Author: Linda Murgatroyd

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2021: a year of changes to save the future?

2021 kicks off with an exhibition of over 80 Loving Earth textile panels at the Robert philipps Gallery, Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre in Walton on Thames (Covid permitting), and a panel discussion exploring what we can do about the issues raised by panel-makers. Courses and workshops organised by Woodbrooke and Quaker Arts Network accompany the exhibition and offer different ways for people to join the project and explore how we might make changes without becomeing overwhelmed by the environmental crisis. While you’re stuck indoors this winter, why not take the opportunity to reflect creatively with us and commit to an action to help care for what you love? Then you could make a textile panel to inspire others!
Details on our Events page

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COVID and our environment: Sustainable Merton launches local Loving Earth Project

First events now fixed up: see https://lovingearth-project.uk/events/

Sustainable Merton , a local environmental charity in South West London, will be working with Loving Earth Project to invite people to explore particularly how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected their relationship with the wider environment, and /or how they would like things to change locally in response.
If you’re interested in getting involved, please contact them at info@sustainablemerton.org
sustainablemerton.org // loving-earth-project.uk
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Deepening Our Commitment: Loving Earth Project course starts

This first Loving Earth Project course organised by Woodbrooke starts this week. All welcome – whether or not you’re a textile artist, or a Quaker . If you want to engage creatively with the challenges of moving towards sustainability, this course may be for you. Six weeks online, starting 14th September. https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/item/deepening-our-commitment-loving-earth-project/

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Online sew and chat events for Loving Earth Panel makers

Starting on 27th May, Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre will be posting a series of online events to share our work -in -progress on Loving Earth Project textile panels. You may have started a panel, and need help or motivation to finish it,; you may not quite know where to start and would like to discuss; or you may have made one or two panels already and would enjoy sharing the process with others. All welcome! Come and meet each other, make new friends and explore what we can do both as textile artists and to care for the future of our fragile ecosystem, starting wherever we are.

Lottie Percival, an artist who regularly runs workshops at Riverhouse Barn, and a Loving Earth Project facilitation will be there to help with suggestions or problems.

Details are on our Events page

On our new Resources page you will also find videos introducing the Loving Earth Project, another with a guided meditation to help you think about the issue you want to focus on and a series of ‘how to’ videos to help with making the textile panels, but you can start in any way you like.