The artists:

Candace Bahouth
A New Yorker of Italian-Lebanese descent, Candace Bahouth has lived for the past thirty years in a small village in Somerset in one of England's most unspoilt rural areas. Candace was originally known as a tapestry weaver, but now is better known for her mosaic and needlepoint. She produces large scale pieces, examples of which are in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She has a magpie eye for discarded items, shards of pottery, mirrors shells, feathers and mounds of mosaic pieces with which she embellishes garden furniture, urns, tables etc. and other items including shoes.

Kaffe Fassett
Kaffe Fassett is widely regarded as one of the world's leading textile artists and is, undoubtedly, one of the world's most original colourists. He was born in San Francisco, and when he was 19 won a scholarship to the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston. He has long a connection with Bath as through Jeremy Fry he got his first work here. In 1988 Kaffe became the first living textile artist to have a one man show at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. His work is now known around the world and he is in great demand lecturing and teaching abroad.

Carole Waller
Carole Waller lives in Bath and is an internationally renowned textile artist. She makes painted clothes, and paintings on veils of cloth which become installations in three dimensional space. Born in Birmingham, she trained in the UK at Canterbury and Bournville Colleges in then in the US. She has work in many public and private collections including the V&A, Birmingham City Art Gallery and the Holburne Musuem in Bath.

Victoria Art Gallery
Bath & North East Somerset Council's art gallery houses the area's permanent  collection of British and European art from the 15th century to the present day including works by Gainsborough, Turner and Sickert. The gallery has one of the best temporary exhibition programmes in the region, ranging from prints to sculpture, including national touring exhibitions and major retrospectives. There are frequent  workshops, holiday activities and a full programme for schools.

For further information contact: Jon Benington, Manager of the Victoria Art Gallery, on Tel: 01225 477772 or e-mail jon_benington@bathnes.gov.uk;

—submitted by Sue Wagstaff, TCC Member