A MIND in Somerset supporter who helps run the charity’s Watchet Crafts Group is exhibiting alongside Grayson Perry, artist, thinker and TV personality.

Artist Lyn Barlow has launched the show Common Thread at the East Quay gallery, in Watchet, which runs until January 1.

For nearly a year Lyn has worked on three quilts with the help of 12 members of the Mis Crafts Group.

The group's leader Sue Lang said: "Deadlines have been looming.

"So, Lyn brought in her quilts for everyone to help with, which has been a wonderful experience.

"I’m a well-being and recovery worker and am passionate about using crafts as therapy. They definitely improve mental health.”

Lyn said: “Making the quilts heralded the beginning of a journey I’m still living in which textiles came to be the most important thing in my life, my core, my version of activism, my most effective way to articulate feelings and beliefs.”

She has always had deep convictions and was a prominent protester who lived at the Greenham Common Peace Camp for three years until 1987, leading to her being arrested and imprisoned.

At East Quay her three large scale works tell her life story over 60 years.

Each quilt illustrates 20 years from a childhood in care and without a home to Greenham Common and periods in prison for her cause fighting American nuclear weapons in England.

She is a member of the Minehead Quaker Group and lives near the town.

Grayson Perry’s two tapestries depict key events from the life of a fictional character, Julie Cope, an Essex woman.

He said: “They’re about the trials, tribulations, celebrations and mistakes of an average life.”