Cedar Wind Drawing, detail The Artist Reception for Articulation’s ‘Forest and Sea and the Place Between’ exhibition at Portals Gallery, Duncan is on Saturday 13th from 3 to 5 pm. Artists Wendy Klotz, Ingrid Lincoln, and Lesley Turner will be in attendance to talk about their work and they look forward to answering questions about […]
Read More...Eco-Threads is a juried exhibition put on jointly by Vancouver Island Surface Design Association and the Coast Collective in Colwood, on from June 28 to July 9, 2017. There will be an artists’ reception from 3 to 5 pm followed by a themed fashion show from 7 to 9:30 pm. All of the work juried into the […]
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...This work began with a cloth that was buried in the soil beside a Douglas-fir tree. Before the cloth began to decay I dug it up. It was now my turn to respond to the cloth. I liked the bits of leaves stuck to the cloth so stitched over some of them to hold them in place. […]
Read More...This year’s teasel harvest I refreshed the teasels at the front door. This is my shingle. elserine is a weaver. During a Vancouver Island Surface Design Assoc meeting elserine demonstrated how the teasel was/is used to full woven or knit garments to make them soft. Gently stroking the cloth with a tied teasel bundle raises the nap. Commercially […]
Read More...2014 3 years 3 months after the emergency while living outside wrapped around the Indian plum I brought the 3 afternoon tea cloths inside. They were carefully washed, dried and ironed. I was hoping the laundering had stopped the decay processes. There is much staining and decay and large holes had appeared. How to preserve this […]
Read More...‘Earth Repair’ began as a response to what I considered to be an emergency situation. March 11, 2011 – quoting from my journal – ‘Emergency. It has been a long winter here on the island. The deer are hungry. They are eating the bark on my precious Indian Plum. I need to care for this tree. The […]
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...After Kerry Mason’s talk, there was time for a quick lunch at the Habitat Cafe on the Royal Roads University campus before walking across the road to the edge of the forest. Gaia College instructor, ecological landscape designer and consultant, Manon Tremblay (centre) took the first group upstream for their walk in the forest. She […]
Read More...Jeff is getting up on the roof after a pellet of plywood was placed up there by a delivery truck with a large arm. A sunny day and the race to get the plywood layer on before the next lot of rain. Next operation – digging trenches and holes for more foundations – this time […]
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