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Hidcote to host exclusive exhibition

Hidcote, near Chipping Campden, will host Nature's Tapestry | Botanical Embroidery, by Olga Prinku, from Friday, March 29, to Monday, September 30.

The exhibition will feature three never-before-seen artworks inspired by the garden, created using natural materials foraged from Hidcote over the past year.

Olga Prinku is an artist, maker, and originator of the craft of flowers-on-tulle embroidery. Her work combines dried and preserved flowers and other natural materials with tulle fabric, to create motifs inspired by nature.

Prinku has been visiting the National Trust garden at Hidcote through the seasons to collect materials like seed heads to create intricate and unique artworks inspired by the changing of the seasons, and the raw beauty of the natural world.

Alongside her wider body of work, Prinku will exhibit three newly-created pieces incorporating foraged materials from the garden and inspired by some of Hidcote's most iconic vistas.

Olga Prinku said: "I think there's a lot in common between my flowers-on-tulle artistic practice and curating a formal garden such as Hidcote. They're both a kind of collaborative creative project, in which nature inspires humans to work with its rhythm and beauty, structuring and combining it in new ways.

"I'm very much looking forward to the exhibition. I hope it will inspire visitors to Hidcote to deepen their appreciation of the beauty of the garden, in all its seasons, and look with new eyes at the fragility yet strength of the natural world."

The exhibition will be held in the entrance hall of the Manor House at Hidcote, and will be accompanied by a short film about Prinku's unique process and the 'garden rooms' which informed her Hidcote-inspired pieces.

Chris Charman, general manager of Hidcote, said: "We especially enjoy hosting exhibitions with a strong link to the garden, and Olga's work makes breathtaking connections between both the structures and the spirit of Hidcote. It is amazingly intricate work which is inspiring and evocative in a format we have not seen before."

The exhibition is free to enter, but standard entry to Hidcote or National Trust membership applies.

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