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...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...During a Mark Makers’ summer residency at the Vancouver Island School of Art (VISA) website we decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather and have a dyeing day outside. We set up tables and brought out buckets of water to the backyard of the school. I set up my sophisticated system for working with dye powder […]
Read More...Edge of the Forest Exhibition Opens The first exhibition of the Canadian Surface Design Association’s ‘Edge of the Forest’ opens in the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. Richmond Hill It is up for all of March. There is an opening reception on March 11th. Here is the rest of the schedule, to date: April […]
Read More...The conditions were right: no wind, sunny, fresh leaves falling fast. It was the right time to sun-print. I lay an old door on the grass and covered it with plastic. I had a collection of leaves I had picked up on my morning walk. Three Setacolor transparent greens were mixed and thinned with water. […]
Read More...Hemoglobin: ChlorophyllAfter sewing the motifs I auditioned many red/green permutations for the sheers going over the top and behind the cut out motifs.First decision was to settle on the right red and the right green sheers.Auditioned 2 layers of red with the lung sandwiched between and the leaf between two layers of green. Red behind with […]
Read More...Victoria College of Art – where the Mark Makers are presently having their first public exhibition. In the Drafting Studio, first on the right.I will be taking my turn sitting the exhibition tomorrow.Lots of people have been visiting so it will be busy. This is the first time ‘Hemoglobin: Chlorophyll II’ has been out of my […]
Read More...I continue my tree colour studies each new moon day of the month.Here is a leaf on the maple tree in July. The chlorophyll has started to withdraw. Here is the same leaf a month later showing very little change. We must have had a cold night back in July. The arbutus is back […]
Read More...When the new moon appeared this month I visited my 4 trees to see what changes had taken place over the previous month.Douglas-fir needles have grown longer. Maple leaves have grown from buds to over twice the size of my hand – in 1 month! Caterpillars are feeding on the new leaves. New Cedar scales now […]
Read More...April was ‘Pollen Moon’ because the Douglas-fir released great clouds of yellow-orange pollen from young bright-orange cones high in the trees. This image is of an old Douglas-fir cone. The Maple flowered and released pollen too. The new Cedar branches become a bright red. The Arbutus dropped more of its vivid yellow-green leaves and red bark.I stitched with more intense colours […]
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