Texture on Textile

I really enjoyed creating these new Collographs, especially those printed on textile. Looking forward to working into some of them with stitch etc

Sutrieu Collographs on textile

Sutrieu Collograph

Sutrieu Collograph

New Bundles Awaiting the Big Reveal!

Ooo the anticipation. I do hope I am not disappointed ….

Wrapped Dye Bundles

Creating Collograph Plates

Have really enjoyed making these Collograph plates based on my French landscapes. Hope they work when printed. Fingers crossed.

Landscape Collograph Plate

Mushrooms for Tea?

Had a lovely two days with Jan and Susan making Collograph Prints. It really suits my textiley style. These were based on my Fungi drawings.

Solar Printing Fun

Great fun with Susan Erskine-Jones making Solar Prints from one of my water-colour sketches in Surieu, France.

Will be good to see how I can use these with my naturally-dyed textiles.

We’ve Got the Blues – Part 2

Having a little fun building on my Indigo-dyed bases!

Indigo over dyed with Rust

Indigo over dyed with Rust and Blackberries

Woof Woof – Samples Inspired by my Bark Studies

Knitted Bark

Patchwork Bark

Couched Bark

Discharge Printed Bark

Machine Embroidered Bark

Big Girls Can Spirograph Too – 2

Systems Project – layers of printed Spirograph Designs!

Big Girls Can Spirograph Too!

Problem – soooo many pics that my backup external hard drive is getting perilously full.
Solution – a new hard drive to store just my photos (you thought I was going to have a massive cull didn’t you?}
Confession – did delete a few but not enough to create significant additional space!
Confession 2 – Magpie tendencies run in the family – my Sister, Mum and Dad developed this to Degree Level!

JOY – have discovered some of my early Spirograph Designs which led to the pieces I have been sharing with you
Problem 2 – more Spirography now added to my To Do List!

Reflecting on Past Projects

I have been so busy with our Pop Up Shop and other recent projects that I have not had time to make any new work.

Now that things are beginning to calm down I am having time to start considering what I want to work on next. I have lots of ideas, lots of started and never finished experiments and and numerous half explored techniques. But how to decide where to start?

As I still do not have time to begin a major new line of work yet I have decided to kick start my preparations by looking back on some of my favourite samples and finished pieces.

This knitted pool combined with beads and stones was inspired by a visit to High Force (a magnificent waterfall in County Durham).

High Force, County Durham