Recently I went to the Enchanted Palace exhibition at London's Kensington Palace and was utterly entranced by the whole thing. What was great to see was that one of the exhibition's main pieces was a fabulous knitted throne. I took a closer look at the fibre-based work of the lead artist on this part of the project.
Linda Litchfield, once a barrister specialising in criminal law, is now an artist who "who makes work which frequently incorporates stitch and knit'. A lady after my own heart she takes what most people expect from knitting and makes it a work of art.
Along with her contribution to the Enchanted Palace working with the Stitches in Time group and Wildworks, she also creates one-off books and some evocative handstitched art too.
You can see some examples of her splendid stitching at the New Embroidery Group Exhibition in East Grinstead which runs till the 25th of May.
