Woven Water: Indigo Ikat Tapestries 2000 - 2002 toured 14 venues in the UK "Bobbie Cox has combined tapestry-weaving, indigo dyeing and ikat techniques to produce wallhangings of superb quality, subtlety and sophistication. The theme of flowing water is expressed in a unique fusion of aesthetic vision and techniques from East and West." Hampshire Museum Service 2001

The work in this exhibition has developed over several years from daily observation of rivers, coastline and rain of Devon where I live. The constant flow of tides are there, day in day out, year after year, yet with ever changing colours and surfaces, reflecting times of day and night, the weather, the seasons. The visual experience is transitory, rarely to be repeated. My means of capturing particular images has been photography.

Summer Water Sunshadow reflections

Autumn Water. River Dart

As painter turned weaver I select painterly images but with a weaver’s eyes, accepting the discipline of weaving – the growth the image line by line, from bottom to top. The colours and textures of water have always interested me and, in making them the subject for this new sequence of work, I decided to explore Ikat (tie and bind) as a method and use indigo as a dye. Together they offered me rich graphic and tonal opportunities and the descriptive vocabulary I needed. The various wools and the different materials used to bind and tie the yarn with before dying and weaving have also played their part in the finished results

Crebers Pool. River Tavy