Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroided cloth nearly 70 metres long by 50 centimetres tall that tells the story of the Norman conquest of England including William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold, Earl of Wessex, who became King of England, and battling at the Battle of Hastings.

It tells the story of the events surrounding the conquest of England in 1066 by the Duke of Normandy. Crossing the sea in longships, long cavalcades on horseback, shields and coats of mail, fantastic creatures and battlefields.

It is a prime example of 11th century Romanesque art, which was commissioned by Bishop Odo, William the Conqueror’s half-brother, to go in his newly-built cathedral in Bayeux in 1077.

Lucy Poskitt

Lucy Poskitt is a Canadian textile artist living and working in Victoria, British Columbia. She studied the Interdisciplinary Program of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Lucy combines traditional techniques with non-traditional methods in her art. She creates panels of work with different colours, textures, sizes and styles and is inspired by surrounding landscapes. She focuses on emphasising deep and powerful geological formations with different methods.

As you can see in the image above, Lucy Poskitt emphasises geological formations, in this case a glacier. She makes use of very natural colours and contrasts dark with light creating drama found in photos in her textile art.