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Peak District Artisans
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An association of fine artists, designer makers & contemporary artisans based in & around the Peak District, UK
Hosts of the famous Great Dome Art & […]

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I handed over this recent commission to its owner today. More about This Ol' House (Bakewell Old House Museum) on my website here https://cognissart.co.uk/this-ol-house/
Another one named for the earworm it induced! 😉
@textileart

#shakinstevens #art […]

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Stitched artwork depicting a long stone building comprised of three gable ends and two connecting section. The windows all have stone surrounds but their style varies. There is a large wooden door roughly central and some green bushes near it and to the left The stitched artwork framed and held in the artist's hand for scale. Focusing on the left hand side in close up. Another close up of the right and central section. The framed artwork against a stone wall. Double mount, pale grey with darker grey reveal. Bare wood frame. Plain beige fabric (negative soace) surrounds the building
October 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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#SilentSunday
A moody seascape. A single breaking wave and flat white water in the foreground. Dark sea behind. Top right, bright sunlight. The looming shape of a hill (Achill Island, Mayo) is just visible through a large low cloud in the centre. The cloud resembles an inversion if the hill
October 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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cognissart.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy
I'm like a bus here - don't see me for weeks and then I post twice in a day 😉
I've been "stuck" with this piece, which needs to be handed in, framed, for a gallery exhibition on 22nd Oct 🤯 It's a collaboration and I didn’t want to mess it up! I have made a […]

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A collage of 4 detail imaged of a linocut of a dry stone wall, on fabric with stitched embellishment depicting grass and lichen
October 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Getting my #wipwednesday in before I forget. This was progress I made on the bridge picture whilst on holiday. Unfortunately, since my return there has been no stitching done ☹️ Due in part to prep for my two arts trails (see separate posts if I have the spoons) […]

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Part worked stitched artwork depicting a stone bridge. Two shallow arches and two angular supports can be seen. The work is stretched on an embroidery frame and viewed at an angle to show texture
September 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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I don't often post videos here but I had such a lovely venue for #melbourneartstrail , and my hosts were amazing, that I must show you this. I am completely spooned out now but I did enjoy meeting lots of new people and explaining how I work.
(NB the sound is […]

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September 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Apologies for the continued radio silence! I am frantically prepping for #newmillsarttrail2025 part of New Mills Festival https://newmillsfestival.co.uk Set up is tomorrow. Find my work in the window of Lighthouse Charity shop, Market St, until 28th Sept
https://newmillsfestival.co.uk/ […]
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September 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Hivemind has spoken! 2:1 in favour of 7x5 ratio I have prepped my canvas appropriately (I leave myself the option to crop if I get tired of stitching leaves however 😉🤣) #wipwednesday
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#art #fineartinstitch #textileart […]

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Stretched canvas on a "slate" embroidery frame, laced at tge sides. Tacked lines show the outling of a 7x5 ratio image and the shape of a bridge with two arches
August 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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#wipwednesday Bakewell Old House went to the photographers yesterday for prints. I thought I'd share how I mount my work. Rather than lacing over a board (such a faf!) I stretch the fabric over acid free, 5mm foam board. Pinning into the sides, I can adjust […]

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Angled view of a stitched artwork, depicting a stone house, stretched flat and wrapped around a 5mm thick board. Pin with coloured bobble heads can be see stuck into the edges. A T shaped pin in part inserted The back of the board showing the fabric wrapped around the sides and back
August 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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#Fensterfreitag looking out through one of the "Arkwright" windows in the central section of Bakewell Old House Museum
Looking outwards through a multipained old window (24 panes in a thin metal framework). Set in a thick wall, so with deep sides and ledge on which sits an exibit and information card. The interior of the room is dark. To each side are glass cabinets which reflect the window, giving an impression of a row of three windows. Through the window can be seen the roof and top section of an old stone house
August 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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#SilentSunday
A view over green fields intersected by stone walls and rows of bushy trees. Trees on thr horizon too. An elder tree in flower is in the foreground. The view from my gate taken a few weeks ago. I know, I am very fortunate
August 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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#wipwednesday wet #blocking Nearly there!
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#bakewelloldhouse #architecture #tudorhouse #arkwright #art #fineartinstitch #textileart #embroidery #fineart #contemporaryart #MastoArt #artistsonmastodon #fediart #artist
Stitched artwork depicting a long stone building with three gable ends and mullioned windows. The fabric is damp and is stretched on a foam block secured by drawing pins
August 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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I'm having bit of a break from shows now, until #newmillsarttrail and #melbournefestival in Sept. However, I have just restocked #derbyshireemporium in Bakewell with my latest prints and my website also lists them all now too https://cognissart.co.uk/store/
Time […]

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Three shelves in a shop filled with a number of framed prints and stitched artworks
August 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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#SilentSunday
Close up of a cornflower (lilac in colour) with a curly stem. 4 five spot burnet moths are sitting on it. The background is out of focus grass but another flower head can be seen with two moths on it
August 3, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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It's my son's 18 birthday today. He's a drummer and a big Danny Carey fan. I've never made a linocut birthday cake before! Wish me luck 🤣
#birthdaycake #xratedcake #over18 #linocuticing #linocutart #CakeDecorating #tool #metal
Black icing rolled flat on a piece of baking paper. It has been cut into the shape of the Tool logo (a double ended spanner with two rings at the bottom, resembling a phallic symbol) A roling pin is at the top and a linocutting tool to the right
August 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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The finished #linocut birthday cake for my #metaldrummer son! 🤣 I'm really rather pleased with this one. I even added a #gutteralslug 😉 (If you know you know)
#birthdaycake #xratedcake #over18 #linocutiting #linocutart #CakeDecorating #tool #metal #xrated #slammetal #progressivemetal
A white iced birthday cake with 1 and 8 gold candles. There is a black double ended spanner made from black icing on top. There are two ring spanner rings at the bottom, give the thisng a phallic look. The letters TOOL are written down the shaft. A green slug (from the film Flushed Away) sits to the side. It has googly eyes on stalks and is singing! Looking down onto the top of the cake to better see the linocut spanner Close up of the singing Guteral Slug
August 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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My wisteria is blooming for the second time this year! I didn't know that was a thing - is it normal? 🤔 Roses and #wisteria at the same time! Said wisteria only started flowering last year after around 15 years - maybe it's making up for lost time 🙃#bloomscrolling #gardening #askinggardeners
A close up photo of a purple wisteria flower just coming into bloom. Behind can be see pink roses (out of focus) and blue sky
July 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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What a lovely weekend at Hopton Hall. My friend and fellow @peakdistrictartisans member Lesley Linley won first prize in the #monthofart competition with her #watercolour painting of THAT wonderfully shiny van 😎 It was my favourite entry by far. And my entry […]

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Watercolour painting of a very shiny trailer/van. Situated in formal rose gardens the reflections show an array of colourful flowers and topiary hedges, distorted by the curving shape of the steel body. Credit Lesley Linley A framed stitched artwork depicting the top of a brick archway with a climbing rose growing from the right and hanging over the edge. Dark foliage throuh the arch. Framed in white and held in the artist's hand for scale 8x8 inch frame The same framed stitched artwork leaning against a stone wall and viewed from the side
July 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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#fenstefreitag 🤗
(Ignore the roofline, it's not finished)
@fibrearts
@textilearts
@embroidery

#art #fineartinstitch #textileart #embroidery #fineart #MastoArt #artistsonmastodon #fediart #artist
Close up of a stitched artwork depicting part of a stone house. A gable end has four sash windows with white frames and stone mullions. A smaller extension to the right has a grey door and two small sash windows
July 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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cognissart.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy
My current commission and #wipwednesday is almost done. Final details and tweaks, then it will be "put the needle down and walk away" time 😊
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@textilearts
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#art #fineartinstitch #textileart #embroidery #fineart #contemporaryart #MastoArt […]

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An almost finished stitched artwork depicting a long stone building of several sections. Limestone walls and mullioned windows, gable ends and a large wooden door. There are some small bushes in front now too.
July 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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My second Renishaw bluebells piece, Temple to Hyacinthus, is now framed and ready to come with me to Hopton Hall this weekend (I must ask if they have bluebells there too 🤫). They make a lovely pair now - I can do a deal for the two 😉
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@textilearts […]

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Two framed stitched artworks depicting bluebells in woodland. The frames are bare wood and tge mounts dark grey with a pale blue undermount which pick out the paler bluebells. Ther lean side by side against a stone wall The taller artwork which features a stone "temple" amongst the trees, held in the artist's hand for scale. Approx 8x12 inches The taller artwork on its own against the stone wall
July 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Art in the Rose Gardens, Hopton Hall Gardens 26 & 27th July 2025 #meettheartists @dianagreenart
Diana Green
Diana is an artist whose work is inspired by a love for trees, nature and folklore. Based at Haarlem Mill in Wirksworth, she creates powerful yet ethereal […]

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Painting of a corvid looking at the viewer. The background is slightly abstract representin grasses and in natural colours of beige/brown Painting of a bare tree in natural colours, looking up into the canopy Painting of a tree with three standing stones to the left and one to the right. The tree is in leaf, they are brown/orange. Behind are fields and a distant row of trees ART IN THE ROSE GARDENS AT HOPTON HALL PEAK DISTRICT ARTISANS 26th-27th JULY 10.30am to 4pm Adults £5 6-16 years £2.50 Under 6 free Free to art competition participants Hopton Hall Wirksworth DE4 4DF What three words: careless.plantings.punchy
July 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Well that has to be a record! From reccy & sketch on Fri to finished work on Tue - completely missing #wipwednesday 🤣 This is my entry for Hopton Hall’s #monthofart competition and will be on display alongside many other artworks in their exhibition this coming […]

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Stitched artwork depicting a brick artchway with dark trees beyond. A climbing rose grows across from the ringht and hangs down in the centre with one pink bloom at the end. The title is Rose Rappell Line sketch on paper done on site for the artwork in 1. Shows the brick arch and a few branches of the rose Promotional image with washed out photo of the formal rose gardens as background. Text: ART IN THE ROSE GARDENS AT HOPTON HALL PEAK DISTRICT ARTISANS 26th-27th JULY 10.30am to 4pm Adults £5 6-16 years £2.50 Under 6 free Free to art competition participants Hopton Hall Wirksworth DE+ 4DF What three words: careless.plantings.punchy
July 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Art in the Rose Gardens, @hoptonhall 26 & 27th July 2025 #meettheartists
Alison Wake @cognissart
Alison creates evocative landscape art through the medium of stitch. Having taken part in last year's Month of Art she has rather taken to en plein air "Painting […]

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Stitched artwork depicting a sloping stone and brick wall with a climbing rose growing over it Stitched artwork depicting birch trees with autumnal bracken in the foreground. The leaves are still green Stitched artwork depicting a dark landscape with a tumble down stone wall in the centre. A sunset is nearly over leaving just a thin band of light on the horizon Promotional image with text: ART IN THE ROSE GARDENS AT HOPTON HALL PEAK DISTRICT ARTISANS 26th-27th JULY 10.30am to 4pm Adults £5 6-16 years £2.50 Under 6 free Free to art competition participants Hopton Hall Wirksworth DE4 4DF What three words: careless.plantings.punchy
July 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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This time next week I will be setting up at Hopton Hall to exhibit with @peakdistrictartisans for Art in the Rose Gardens. I called in today to get some inspiration for my #monthofart entry (going to have to be quick!) See […]

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A dried allium head in focus against a blurred background of a clipped hedge and tall trees The top right hand corner of a brick archway. A climbing rose grows from the right and dangles over the dark opening Looking down onto some wooden raised beds. The two directly in front are brimming over with green vegetables and beans Looking accross a topiary garden with lots of conical shapes and square hedging. Roses between and a long sloping brick wall behind. Trees behind that
July 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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#Fensterfreitag
A 30 pained old fashioned window with a white frame, arched at the top. Set in a old brickwork wall with an arched brick lintel
July 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM