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The theme this month was “Africa” – very broad, so much choice for this procrastinator. This is my offering. The cotton is hand painted using wax resist and layering which I then hand stitched.
Another side of London, this centre is a ten minute train ride from Clapham Junction – the contrast is stunning!
Can you see us?
Dreamtime:
Wonderfully textural plant:
Gorgeous feathers:
and gorgeous grass:
Loving these feathers:
Shelter:
We are family:
Soul Food :
Total refreshment for body, mind and soul.
For some years I seem to have been creating pictures in various media of older women – the Crones in my psyche I suppose. This is one such, painted with acrylics on hessian, that I don’t think I have shared before – she hangs on my small landing beneath a window where she greets me each time I climb or descend the stairs.
I am extraordinarily fond of her.
They speak for themselves:
I really must keep up with posting here. I am trying to work out a way to combine my blogs – I feel I am compartmentalising rather than presenting a whole, something I am familiar with in terms of my thinking. However, I am finding it much more difficult than I imagined.
In the meantime, here are the quilties :
May theme was free – I decided to use some multi-dyed cotton cut into strips, woven together again into two pieces, the one placed diagonally onto the other …then the stitching – my favourite part.
June theme: Birds, Butterflies and/or Bees. I chose birds – this one may look very familiar if you followed the sketchbook entry – i took it directly from one of the sketches – it works for me!
A small group of friends decided we would set ourselves a sketchbook challenge. That challenge was to fill a small (A6) sketchbook in seven days. We could choose our own theme and work in any medium – the only proviso being that if anyone used photos in their book, you would have to do three sketches to each photo used.
I chose to go with a theme that arose in a spread I did for the soul journal project which is “In Gaia’s Garden”. It is a theme I will continue to explore and develop, definitely using some of the ideas that were very quickly put to paper during this challenge. I haven’t included every single page of the sketchbook as there is a fair bit of repetition.
It was a great idea and a good experience – one I shall certainly do again.
seeds couched on leaf rubbed linen
ivy outline on leaf-printed paper
seed opening-earth
air
wood
Sister Circle
seed-human doodle
thoughts on healing hands
more playing with the human/plant connection.
That’s it ……….seeing these again fills me with ideas once more – ideas sketchbooks are definitely a great asset.
My contribution to a book made for a friend who was not at all well – many friends made pages and the book was an absolute beauty, the recipient was more than happy with the surprise .
The quote I used on the back is one I love and one which said what I wanted to express:
“Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting
that a new world is born”
Anais Nin
I have been neglecting this blog for far too long, mainly because I have been concentrating on the story cloth quilt I am creating/obsessing on, apologies.
However, I didn’t realise it had been so long since I had posted here – well slap my wrists!
So, what have I been doing?
Firstly there is this:
A page for a friend’ s Travelling Colour Journal. I chose green….this was way back in February.
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