’until you became me', at St Mary's Mill, Chalford

My sister Rosie drove up from Wiltshire to visit us mid-morning. After a quick coffee and a catch-up we headed to a local pub for lunch. We wanted something to do in the afternoon and chose to visit one of the local artist events at St Mary’s Mill, in Chalford, being held as part of the ‘Site Festival’ organised by Stroud Valley Arts.

The venue was a mill which is only open to the public on a couple of weekends each year, as arranged by the Stroudwater Textile Trust, who invited the artists to use the venue at the same time. 

We met Karen Le Roy Harris and Miriam Sedacca, the two London based artists before we went into the ground floor of the mill where original machinery energy generating machinery was on display, with some of it still functioning. I was also pleased to see John Ward was demonstrating his stereoscopic images, featuring close up views of many types of raw wool and  finished cloth, including the green baize of snooker tables which is still manufacture further down the valley in Stroud.

At 3pm we moved out of the building to see the two artists at work, moving slowly into the mill to enact their show ’until you became me'.