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Powys, Wales, United Kingdom
I am at my happiest when I'm creating something/anything....I'm of Welsh heritage, born in Canada, and have lived a quite curious life so far.....
Showing posts with label textile art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label textile art. Show all posts

Thursday, October 24, 2013

some of the Textile Art I will be taking to the Harrogate Knitting & Stitch Show this November....








.. this mixed media piece was created from derelict teacups, fused into organza with heat and tied with thin but tough wire and made as a reference to the wonderful, older and through adversity  stronger women in our family, although often overlooked by todays cultural slant towards youth and who I 
felt the need to acknowledge their hidden qualities and strengths.



to me it seemed as these smashed cups had some stories to tell....

more crockery, this time sawn apart from a loved aunts house, I wanted to see what the  fragments would look like if more uniformly cut but decided they were not as interesting

for one of the many samples I embedded the pieces into clay, the tags represent teabags and the conversations that accompanied them. I did not choose to further sample along these lines but find that 'embedding' with a slight reveal of itthe item now seems to often pop up in my work



this is one of the pieces I'll be taking along to the Knitting & Stitch show this November in Harrogate, come along and say hello!

 http://www.twistedthread.com/pages/exhibitions/viewExhibition.aspx?id=45

Saturday, September 01, 2012

Hi Peeps,
Just to let you know that I will be delivering a workshop at the Manchester Museum on Sept 8th and am so looking forward to it.
We will be taking inspiration from the Alan Turing exhibition into sketches which in turn will be the basis for a contemporary textile and/or mixed media piece.

Alan Turing was a brilliant man who had a tragic end, the exhibition is well worth a visit and the coffee shop at the museum is pretty good too!

http://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:th-h45csfx9-o5mg0x/