Tony Bounsall – Tony Bounsall Photo Design came to the Green Shed for a photo shoot. Tony has been photographing my work for years because he really knows how to capture textiles. Here he is setting up to photograph Barbara McCaffrey’s large work. I thought this work would be a challenge because it is solid buttons that […]
Read More...“Our sense organs can function only by means of comparisons. The eye accepts a line as long when a shorter line is presented for comparison. The same line is taken as short when the line compared with it is longer. Colour effects are similarly intensified or weakened by contrasts.” Itten The Elements of Color, p. 32 Itten’s 7 kinds […]
Read More...‘Currency’ I have a series of new small works currently out there in CACSP’s Tulista Gallery exhibition ‘Small Expressions’ and VISDA’s ‘Current Threads: Garden Tapestry’ at South Shore Gallery. ‘Currency’ ‘Currency’ is about how many early tribes first used shells for money when trading commodities. The most common shell was the cowry, (Cypraea moneta) but […]
Read More...I go to thrift stores, garage sales and estate auctions in search of embroideries, hand made works that have essentially been discarded. Each one has a story about its maker, its owner and its history but for most of them this provenance has been lost. Sometimes, when I take a work out of it’s dusty […]
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...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...For the #23 Orange-yellow square I settled on a ground of layered sheers…. …then decided on the value range and intensity level of the threads. Then wound the thick threads in the bobbin and cabled stitched them on the ground from the back.My new Bernina has a very large bobbin that holds lots of thick […]
Read More...This summer I am working on the Visual Studies module of the Opus BA(Hons) programme I am enrolled in. It is highly recommened one takes a figure drawing class. My drawing skills are poorly developed, to say the least, so I attended a 5 day long open drawing studio session at Red Deer College’s summer […]
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