Elizabeth Heydeman uses textural and colourful yarns to weave evocative images and artefacts.

Weaving is a discipline which fascinates Elizabeth: the play of colours and textures, the restrictions of warp and weft. She has had work selected and shown at the annual exhibitions of the Reading Guild of Artists and the biennial national exhibitions of the Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers. Her recent tapestries delight in rugged Icelandic scenery: ice and melt water; craggy, volcanic basalt and sulphurous rocks; steaming, boiling mud; distant mountains. Her handspun yarns are used to provide a range of textures. Elizabeth enjoys choosing and combining colourful and textural yarns: softly draping scarves, some in the colours of garden butterflies; a firmly woven image for a wall hanging. For cushions, rugs and bags torn cloth strips are used as weft, some recycling old garments and sheets. Each piece is unique, a new discovery, yet based on the ancient techniques of weaving.