Stitches in Time

Two gay men of later years share their love of needlepoint in a fully colour illustrated volume displaying a body of original work created over the forty year span of their lives from 1977 until 2007. Using stories recounting some of their inspiration and experiences enjoyed on their extensive travels, David Evans and Nigel Quiney celebrate their lives with colour and originality in their work which is revealed as being so much more than merely decorative. A great deal of thought and interpretation have been invested in the symbology contained in many of these works which include wall hangings, panels, cushions, table tops (under glass), chair and stool coverings, spectacle cases, handbags, decorated denim jackets, hats and berets … A sequel to this volume has just been produced and converted into e:book format entitled THE WORDSTITCHER by David Evans embracing the work sewn since 2007, a book which gives equal importance to David’s poetry which is featured on much of this essentially English work.

About the Author

David Evans was born in Malvern, Worcestershire in February 1947, first child of Mary (nee Bray) and Pat (nee Reginald Patrick) Evans only two years after Pat had been repatriated from a German P.O.W camp having been captured at Dunkirk. He has a brother, Richard and a sister, Elizabeth.

David attended Hanley Castle Grammar School in 1957 and in 1965 went up to Eliot College at the University of Kent in the first year of that institution’s founding. In 1968, upon graduation, he worked for the British Council for a year and then, successively, the film director Silvio Narizzano, the theatrical agent and manager Barry Krost, the manager and impresario John Reid before leaving the music business in 1977 and taking up with an Edinburgh antique dealer having organised the first series of concerts at the newly rescued Edinburgh Playhouse in 1976.

In 1979 David opened a small restaurant in Malvern, Le Bol a Tout Faire but eventually returned to London in 1982 where he met his life partner Nigel Quiney whose gift-wrapping paper and greetings card business he joined in both a management and designing capacity.

Both men retired effectively from public business in 1996 and since then have travelled wider than widely and pursued artistic and writing endeavours, each publishing a series of memoirs and David turning out works of biography and fiction. As civil partners, they live in Islington in London and Friston, East Sussex.