Garden of Possibilities (Published in Sew Somerset)

This story begins in October 2010 when on a whim I submitted two Mixed Media hangings to Sew Somerset.  These hangings had not been made specifically for submitting. I had been playing around using artist canvas sheet and garden fleece and when complete they were literally hanging around the home as I had no plans for them. Something surely came over me that day as I packaged them up and sent them on their way to Stampington & co. From then on I never gave them a second thought until fast forward to February of this year when  I received an e-mail from the Editor saying that they wanted to use both hangings in an article and would I be interested in writing the actual article. Now just imagine my shock, here was I, someone who had submitted for the first time to this publication, someone who doesn’t own a proper sewing machine and they are asking for me to write an article, this is what dreams are made of.
Last week my complimentary issue arrived in the mail and you would imagine that it would have sunk in my now but no, still a sense of disbelief.
As I said, there are two hangings in the article but I will only share one of them today. There is no reason why I selected this particular one other than I never tire of this image.
When I photographed the hanging I was pushed for time so no setting up, merely a matter of photographing for my own records. Back in January 2010 I used similar materials in the post “New Chapter“.
My story proves that it is always worth submitting artwork. I am still very new to submitting but have come to the realisation that you just have to go for it as you have absolutely nothing to lose. If someone had told me this time last year that I would submit artwork to Sew Somerset I would have laughed at the notion but to actually submit, on a whim, then to discover that they want the artwork as an article, I would never have believed that to be possible.
The Sew Somerset team photographed the artwork so beautifully giving a slightly ethereal quality to the images which was so perfect as this is what I mention in the article.  It is astonishing to see my art in a publication crammed with notable names such as Nancy Gene Armstrong, Ruth Rae, Glenda Bailey and more. The title of the article is “Garden of Possibilities” but for me it is art that has created possibilities,  possibilities that at one time I wouldn’t have dared to dream would ever be possible. Lynne x