Tricia Revest Bursary : Maggie Paykel
Tricia Revest, long-standing former member and chairman of London Quilters, died in October 2016. I did not know Tricia during her time as Chair of London Quilters as I was not a member then. I thought it would be quite difficult to write about her BUT when I saw her photograph I knew that I had spoken to her at length at various exhibitions over the years.
She loved going to prism exhibitions and would ask no end of questions - about both the students' and the professionals' work. Eventually I learnt that she wrote numerous reviews for several magazines. She always had a sketchbook with her, plus camera, and was to be seen regularly at the Alexandra Palace Knitting and Stitching Shows and Birmingham Festival of Quilts shows.
Tricia left her quilting legacy to London Quilters with a request that the items be sold and the proceeds of the sales to go to London Quilters and her own specified charities. It was clear that she was extremely interested in the latest techniques and spent a lot of time trying them out. When I came to sort out the fabrics and books from her studio, which she established when she retired to Shropshire, I realised that there was very little that she had not explored. I do not know how she managed to do so much creative work whilst raising a family and holding a full time and demanding scientific job, but she loved textiles.
The Tricia Revest Bursary has been established to give members a chance to explore the latest techniques and establish a love of textiles and to do as Tricia did - pass that love on to a new generation.
The application form can be downloaded with this link
She loved going to prism exhibitions and would ask no end of questions - about both the students' and the professionals' work. Eventually I learnt that she wrote numerous reviews for several magazines. She always had a sketchbook with her, plus camera, and was to be seen regularly at the Alexandra Palace Knitting and Stitching Shows and Birmingham Festival of Quilts shows.
Tricia left her quilting legacy to London Quilters with a request that the items be sold and the proceeds of the sales to go to London Quilters and her own specified charities. It was clear that she was extremely interested in the latest techniques and spent a lot of time trying them out. When I came to sort out the fabrics and books from her studio, which she established when she retired to Shropshire, I realised that there was very little that she had not explored. I do not know how she managed to do so much creative work whilst raising a family and holding a full time and demanding scientific job, but she loved textiles.
The Tricia Revest Bursary has been established to give members a chance to explore the latest techniques and establish a love of textiles and to do as Tricia did - pass that love on to a new generation.
The application form can be downloaded with this link
Tricia Revest : An Appreciation of Her Life : Janice Gunner
Tricia was a woman of many talents.
In her professional life she was a lecturer in Neurophysiology at Queen Mary College, University of London, involved in the education and examining of the medical students, something she and my husband had in common.
Tricia was also a qualified diver and a musician, but it was through quilting that we became friends when she joined London Quilters. I will always remember her turning up to meetings with finished pieces of work on a regular basis. Her patchwork jacket was one of her favourites and I did a double take when I saw her daughter Jeanne wearing it at her funeral in October, she is so like her mum!
Tricia had lots of other interests too - technology was one, and she was responsible for dragging London Quilters into the world of websites by setting up and running it for many years and also led the group as Chairman.
She remained a member until she moved away to rural Shropshire after she and Alan retired from work. The reason for moving so far away was so that she and Alan, whose great interest was astronomy, could star gaze without all the light interference from London. They once had a lovely old farmhouse on the Tuscany/Umbria borders near Lake Trasimeno, a rural retreat in a picturesque region of Italy, so Alan could see the stars clearly. We stayed there once and saw immediately why they chose that place. Sadly Alan passed away just a week after Tricia.
Apart from her family, Tricia's great loves were opera and her quilting. Her work took an exciting journey following a week long workshop with Nancy Crow - the freedom of free cutting and working with colour captured Tricia's imagination and her work suddenly blossomed into contemporary/art quilts. She loved going to the Festival of Quilts and we would spend time discussing the exhibits and catching up with each other on my stand at the show.
In her professional life she was a lecturer in Neurophysiology at Queen Mary College, University of London, involved in the education and examining of the medical students, something she and my husband had in common.
Tricia was also a qualified diver and a musician, but it was through quilting that we became friends when she joined London Quilters. I will always remember her turning up to meetings with finished pieces of work on a regular basis. Her patchwork jacket was one of her favourites and I did a double take when I saw her daughter Jeanne wearing it at her funeral in October, she is so like her mum!
Tricia had lots of other interests too - technology was one, and she was responsible for dragging London Quilters into the world of websites by setting up and running it for many years and also led the group as Chairman.
She remained a member until she moved away to rural Shropshire after she and Alan retired from work. The reason for moving so far away was so that she and Alan, whose great interest was astronomy, could star gaze without all the light interference from London. They once had a lovely old farmhouse on the Tuscany/Umbria borders near Lake Trasimeno, a rural retreat in a picturesque region of Italy, so Alan could see the stars clearly. We stayed there once and saw immediately why they chose that place. Sadly Alan passed away just a week after Tricia.
Apart from her family, Tricia's great loves were opera and her quilting. Her work took an exciting journey following a week long workshop with Nancy Crow - the freedom of free cutting and working with colour captured Tricia's imagination and her work suddenly blossomed into contemporary/art quilts. She loved going to the Festival of Quilts and we would spend time discussing the exhibits and catching up with each other on my stand at the show.