New work from Pat Albeck

Textile designer Pat Albeck, well-known for producing over 300 tea towels for the National Trust as well as countless fashion and furnishing prints, is exhibiting 20 new works as part of Oxford Art Weeks. The extravagant cut paper collages are the latest in a varied and successful career that began when Pat left the Royal College of Art in 1953. Pat and her late husband, the theatre designer Peter Rice, moved to Bampton two years ago and since then she has been working on these bright and complex works. Despite a lifetime spent drawing with pencil, pen and brush, in this project Pat has limited herself to a pair of nail scissors as equipment; never drawing a guide but just cutting direct with the real subject matter in a vase on her desk. Pat’s son is the designer and illustrator Matthew Rice married to potter Emma Bridgewater. Read more about Pat Albeck and her influential career as a designer in the Pop issue of Selvedge. See Pat Albeck's new work at Ham Court in Bampton Wednesday 25 May -Friday 27 May 3-6.30pm