The Surface Design Association’s 2019 biennial conference, Beyond the Surface, was in St Louis, Missouri. It was held in conjunction with the Innovations in Textiles 2019 a three-month-long event held every four years. With 43 participating venues and a large number of other museums and other historic buildings in the St Louis area, SDA members attending […]
Read More...Every day I am in the studio I stitch into this work for an hour or so. After the tree added its wind drawing I am responding by marking the branchlets I see on the ground after the wind. I am also working on another for the Synesthesia series. This series is a response to […]
Read More...Lesley Turner, ‘Earth Repair’ 36″ x 35″/92 x 89 cm, 2011 – ongoing, embroidered (anonymous) vintage cotton afternoon tea cloth, leaf skeletons, cotton & polyester thread, jute string, wooden branch, MinWax; tree staining, washing, ironing, hand & machine applique, waxing. This work has been accepted into the World of Threads Festival 2016 in the ‘Late in the […]
Read More...Ravenmadeworks I have made a series of pillow covers using refreshed vintage molas and put them in my Etsy shop Ravenmade Works. Molas are the embroidery of the Cuna Indians of Panama. They live on the San Blas Islands on the Atlantic side of Panama. This well-worn mola (above) is a relatively simple design with […]
Read More...Synesthesia #4 Spring Green I have just spent the day working in a team to install this year’s ‘Small Expressions Show’ at Tulista Community Arts Centre, Sidney-by-the-Sea, BC. When we left the gallery late this afternoon all of the work was in place and looked so inviting. It looked like a place to spend a […]
Read More...I collected up the fabric and made a decision on the value range. The layers of fabric were stacked lightest to darkest and the energy lines of this colour sewn on the back of the ground. Then the cutting started. Several hours later. It is coming along quite nicely but there is still a lot […]
Read More...I had to make another #23 because a friend bought the 1st one I made. This time I used the cut-back applique technique. I like using worn clothing in my work. My old brown linen pants are just the right colour. I am waiting for the day when I cut out a piece of fabric […]
Read More...In the Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, there is an exhibition of 11 international textile murals. It is the ‘Creative Peace Mural Project which aims to link and celebrate communities around the world’. This mural was made in Morioka Japan in 2010 as a community project with the makers’ hand prints making up the border. The […]
Read More...Synesthesia #1 Yellow Synesthesia #24 Golden Yellow Synesthesia #23 Orange-yellow These are the 3 works I am entering into Vancouver Island Surface Design Association’s next exhibition, in the Nanaimo Art Gallery, January 2014. It is a juried show so my work may not get in. Here is the series so far – 7 of 24 completed.
Read More...Continuing the Synesthesia series.Collecting up #24 Golden Yellow fabrics and sorting by value. …and threads. An opportunity to use some of my many gold threads. But sparkly wasn’t right for how I feel about this colour.So my collection of sparkly gold threads will have to wait their time for another idea.
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