Bren Boardman is a surface design artist born in the Scottish Borders on the East Berwickshire Coast. After a career in marketing, she studied Art and Design at Heriot Watt and Loughborough Universities, graduating with a First Class BA (Hons) in Printed Textiles.
Bren, a keen gardener, is renowned for her distinctive combination of texture and vivid colours with fabric, screen print, hand painting and stitch. The Cottage Garden Series is a collection of original, contemporary pictures and printed cards depicting English garden flowers, shrubs and trees across the seasons. She has a studio in her Warwickshire garden.
In her talk, Bren described how she designs her work from her initial idea to sketchbook to finished pictures. Bren's numerous examples of her work were passed around to enable them to be looked at close up.
Thanks to Ann and Kate for the photos provided of the evening.
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