Sarah Mclaren (website) and I taught our new ‘Mindful Colours’ workshop to 24 people. It was important to have 24 people because we sat them right in a colour wheel to involve more of their senses as they explored their own personal responses to colours. Most colour workshops start off with making the ubiquitous colour wheel. Our workshop […]
Read More...Ready to teach our workshop on colour. ‘Mindful Colours’ by Sarah Mclaren and Lesley Turner But before that, there were many hours of planning and preparing of workshop supplies. We dug deep into our fabric stashes to find as many different variations of colour as we had. We asked friends to donate fabric scraps to […]
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 students have spent the past couple of weeks learning how to make repeating patterns, developing their own designs then using them to create different patterns. Connie cuts a quick, inexpensive corrugated cardboard stamp to trial a design. Elisha created a design based on a building then translated it into foam stamps, one the mirror […]
Read More...Here are some more images of sampler panels I made during the workshop to document each of the techniques Daniella showed us. It was a great workshop. I learned lots and Daniella is an excellent instructor.
Read More...On day 2, while waiting for Daniella Woolf’s next batch of demos, I continued to add and scrape back layers of clear and pigmented wax on my Day 1 panels. Daniella is an experienced teacher and kept giving us new techniques to work with throughout the day. Donna Clement and I shared a palette of melted wax. […]
Read More...After waiting many years I have finally had a Maiwa Symposium experience.I attended Daniella Woolf’s encaustic workshop. Having no experience with the encuastic medium, I was very pleased Daniella began at the beginning.Warming the panel. Preparing the panel. And so on the first day I built up layers of wax… …scraped them back then added more.It was so […]
Read More...Back in Victoria I decided to tidy up my studio. First I put away everything covering my work tables. I rounded up all the loose yarns and threads, sorted them by colour then put them away in my thread colour- coded boxes. I did the same with all of the fabrics I had accumulated over […]
Read More...The faculty at Victoria College of Art is having their annual exhibition this month Here is all the info about it Do hope you can see it I will be at the opening on the Thursday evening – looks like it is going to be lots of fun Hope to see you there Lesley “HAND TO HAND” – […]
Read More...Lesley Turner ‘Valuing Women’s Work’ 81″ x 62″, composted, hand stitching; cottonAn afternoon tea cloth was left under a maple tree during fall to be incorporated into the decay cycle. After many hours of washing, ironing and stitching the work goes largely unnoticed as the restored cloth is sacrificed again to protect furniture while the […]
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