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Elina Kobzar

Dumfriesshire artist wins prestigious award for handwoven tapestry

A Dumfriesshire artist has won a prestigious award for her handwoven
tapestry.

Gyllian Thomson, from Thornhill, is “over the moon” with the accolade from the Scottish Art Club for her entry Linear Corridor.

And her prize for the award is a solo exhibition that will take place throughout March, 2023, at the Rutland Square residence in Edinburgh.

She said: “My work in the medium of tapestry was recognised as fine art alongside other painters and printmakers and sculptors.

“My solo show in Edinburgh will feature all my work small pieces to larger work.

Award winning tapestry weaved by Gyllian Thomson, created using cotton, wool, linen, and acrylic on her upright scaffold loom (Euan Adamson)

“I intend also to show my designs alongside my tapestries so that visitors can see what I wove from.”

Gyllian added: “I am inspired by the land around me in Dumfries and Galloway, the shapes I see along the pathways and the feelings I get in the hills I walk on.

“I work in my sketchbooks creating drawings and paintings refining them and changing them until I have my design. I then translate my painting onto the scaffold loom and choose my yarns to suit the painted colours.

“My work is a process from the formal qualities of my materials to the feelings and emotions of my abstract paintings and designs.

“The feeling that you get when looking at my work is important to me when I weave it not what it is actually of.”

Gyllian graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art at Dundee University in textiles and printmaking and later got taught tapestry by Gordon Brennan, the nephew of Archie Brennan who was the famous tapestry weaver and started at the Dovecote in
Edinburgh.

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