A Common Treasury: Kat Blockley Art

A Common Treasury: Kat Blockley Art Artist working with stitch, print, paint and song from a studio in East Devon UK.

Collecting and archiving material from local newspapers and other sources, Kat maintains shoebox files of images and text known as 'A Common Treasury'.

At Buckland Abbey NT I explored the maritime embroideries as I descended the staircase. I've been thinking about stitchi...
28/08/2026

At Buckland Abbey NT I explored the maritime embroideries as I descended the staircase. I've been thinking about stitching, typologies, naming and text and these vessels with their balance between the abstract or general and the intensely specific, the particular and in some cases named detail fascinate me. My British Natives needle lace sheep, a typology of 30 endangered breeds each with particular points, details, histories is developing and I've almost finished naming each breed with hand stitched titles. I love seeing how embroiderers of the past tackled text in all its wobbly glory!

After a long, drysummer Double Waters stillrun deep in places.
27/08/2026

After a long, dry
summer Double Waters still
run deep in places.

From small seeds 🌻I visited the glorious Cowslip Workshops for some essential thread for sewing 'British Natives' 🐑 and ...
21/08/2026

From small seeds 🌻

I visited the glorious Cowslip Workshops for some essential thread for sewing 'British Natives' 🐑 and a lovely lunch. They were so encouraging to my small daughter who fell in love with this poppy button.

Thank you for sowing the seeds ❤️

Did you see it too? ✈️
16/08/2026

Did you see it too? ✈️




I'm at TAAG today and tomorrow morning for the last days of the Devon Now! Exhibition of Devon Artist Network Come and s...
13/08/2026

I'm at TAAG today and tomorrow morning for the last days of the Devon Now! Exhibition of Devon Artist Network Come and see me working on British Natives, framing the needle lace sheep with linen before starting to embroider the text.

I'll have two stitched drawings on show in this summer exhibition by Devon Artist Network members in Teignmouth. I'll be...
27/07/2026

I'll have two stitched drawings on show in this summer exhibition by Devon Artist Network members in Teignmouth. I'll be there at the gallery on Thursday and Friday 13th and 14th August to enjoy the wide selection of excellent artworks on show.

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The view from our gig at Rock Oyster Festival we're playing at The Coral Club in five minutes then to the Craft B**r at ...
24/07/2026

The view from our gig at Rock Oyster Festival we're playing at The Coral Club in five minutes then to the Craft B**r at 20:30, come and see us if you're here.

I've been keeping things quiet this past year but it's lovely to play our songs in the glorious sunshine. This month here in Cornwall, next month in Devon at Dartmoor Folk Festival
Some artwork will be on show in Teignmouth soon too, details to follow 🎶

Come and enjoy the exhibition, find me working on my stitched drawings for the last Tuesday and Saturday this week, it'l...
29/09/2025

Come and enjoy the exhibition, find me working on my stitched drawings for the last Tuesday and Saturday this week, it'll be lovely to see you 💛

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