Margaret Olley Exhibition

 

My pieces in the Warwick Art Gallery in Broadstrokes exhibition Conversations with Margaret Olley. 

In spired by Margarets love of  buying old houses and renovating. 

New ideas

Eco dying with Wendy Trulson at ATASDA last week . These are some of  the results ,on paper. Eucalyptus, ferns, small snippets of sari ribbon.

Then these small squares were drawn into with pens, coloured in with aquarelles. I love this processes it involves so of my favourite concepts in my art. First I am always animating my pieces needing to have some living creature, person or object in fabric. Then I love to have a story . So her I have The Fairy Prince, Old Goat Face, Going walking - with a duck with his feet dancing backwards, Phoenix Rising and Moon face and wee Dot.

Painting papers

I have spent some time painting pages as the base for a Slow Stitched Journal. Some collage to follow  , adding images, tissue, fabric scraps before the stitching begins.

 Have a good supply of craft acrylics but couldn’t find them at the time I needed them . So I have only used three very old and fairly dried up colours, violet , turquoise and pink. Also some white gesso.  But they work well together. Will add different  colour with the collage and now that I have found the paints I was looking for will add touches  from these as well. Online class with @kelliemaykrenz

Holding

A piece of wood layered with a torn strip of vintage lace from old tablecloth. Held together lightly with a weave of linen thread. Placed on recycled denim from a pair of jeans. All small pieces that in their own right may have been discarded but by bringing them together something new evolves .

Pink for April

Pink challenge finished for 2qaq ‘s colour challenge for 2019.Found the Margaret Olley quote 

‘I like to paint the gallery walls a particular pink’

Vintage linens and embroideries.

SotA2019

My conceptual art quilt was juried into the SotA 2019 exhibition. It is now hanging in the Gympie Art Gallery alongside the 43 other art quilts acepted into the SotA 2019.

It is entirely hand stitched from reclaimed and vintage fabric. The base  nine patch is made from French hemp teatowels that have been ecodyed in Coreopsis , black beans and avocado pits. Three sisters flying away leaving the nest heading to new dwellings to forge a continuation of the story. It hasn’t stopped it has just changed. The edges and corners have been included into the story, they are hand stitched hems from the original owner or maker of the hand woven tea towels . 

Sketchbook cover

This is the results of a group collaborative art  activity at 2QAQ last year. A large piece of white cotton fabric was laid on a table with the artist’s gathered around each clutching a felt marking pen. We wrote , words favourite sayings, drew symbols lines and marks. Then a second group of artists came and did the same thing. We then came back to the work an applied paint. We wrote in paint, put lines around the previous images and words or covered them. After drying each artist was given a small piece. Mine was enough to make a small journal cover with a piece of orange added to the long edges.

The sketchbook is one I drew in during a trip to Spain and Morocco several years ago. The first image shows one of the pages of a statue of Mary in a small church in Madrid.