Bury artist's work starring in MASA-UK Art Gallery Japanese exhibition

The MASA-UK Art Gallery on Bolton Street is running the exhibition featuring work from local creative Lyndsey Miller and Japanese artist Tomomi Kitazawa Kenedy.

The gallery, which has been established in the town for 10 years, is using embroidery for the first time through the exhibition.

Talking about how she got into art, Lyndsey said: "I just started doing a bit of embroidery when I was in my 30s.

"I used to go off into my little world and produce something nice and roll them up put in a suitcase and forget about them."

One of Lyndsey Miller's pieces of work (Image: Luke Patrick)

Gallery owner Matija Sapundzieska remembers the first time she saw Lyndsey's embroidery.

She said: "We were just breathless, the balance of colours and the sensitivity of the work and the precision of the lines was something you cannot describe." 

One of Lyndsey Miller's pieces of work (Image: Luke Patrick)

Matija also recalls Lyndsey arriving and seeing her work framed and displayed in a professional art gallery for the first time and remembers the "happiness on her eyes".

Lyndsey said: "It's different when you are working on something close up, and then when you see it's framed on the wall, you think, I do that. Is that mine?"

Lyndsey's work consists of intricate embroidery featuring Japanese women in kimonos and an embroidered recreation of the girl with the pearl earring painting, among other work.

One of Lyndsey Miller's pieces of work (Image: Luke Patrick)

The work from Tomomi involved intricate ceramic sculptures.

She talked about the theme that runs through all her artistic work called "Ruten", a Buddhist word meaning continuing change.

Some of Tomomi Kitazawa's art (Image: Luke Patrick)

Tomomi also expressed how her emotions impacted her work.

She added: "Sometimes when I started work I happy and ended up sad, it's like a diary, like an emotional diary."

The exhibition opened for the first time last Friday.