Pauline Burbidge Silk and Cotton Quilt 'Sedges 2' 2008, worked on a cream ground with black and white stitching and black shaded areas created in bands, signed to the bottom left hand corner, together with wooden batons, 85cm by 86cm; Pauline Burbridge Black and White Silk Scarf of Triangular Shape, signed and dated 2008, 100cm by 220cm; A Modern Patchwork Quilt 'Storm at Sea', worked in red floral sprigged cottons with a blue grid design to the reverse, 210cm by 265cm (3)

Pauline Burbidge is recognised as one of the UKs premier textile artists, with a career spanning over 40 years. Taking the natural world and and the countryside of the Scottish Broders where she is based as her source of inspiration, her quilts and wall hangings have a wonderful fluidity and sparing use of colour. Paulines works has been exhibited worldwide and examples have been purchased by a number of major museums of the UK, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Museums of Scotland, the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum in Belfast, the Whitworth Art Gallery, in Manchester, the Shipley Art Gallery, and the Glasgow Museums. She is also represented in major collections in the USA, including the International Quilt Study Center & Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska, and the John M. Walsh III Collection of Contemporary Art Quilts, and has won numerous commissions, grants and awards, including the British Craft Council's John Ruskin Craft Award and a major grant from the Scottish Arts Council.