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10 days in Japan
Just back after spending 10 days in Japan over Easter. Cherry blossom time and also some wonderful exhibitions of scroll paintings (combining both beauty and some wonderfully comic scenes). We also met and had dinner with a Meiko (training to be a Geisha, a five year process) and two Deiko (or Geisha). Their dances where all of the emotion and story is through the hand and body movements (their feet always remain on the ground).
While in Japan we visited one of the main shibori dyeing towns where I found some wonderful fabric and I also bought some pieces of vintage kimonos from a shop in Tokyo which I can never resist visiting.
As I always do, I took both my paints and scissors and glue and made a series of collages as inspiration for future projects. Our daughter came with us and her stylish hats and dramatic art student black and white clothes may also inspire a quilt!
I’ve have been juried in to the SAQA Exhibition
[vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text]I have been juried into the SAQA exhibition ‘Made in Europe’ show of 30 quilts which will tour the USA. I am absolutely thrilled, this is my second work to make it into an international exhibition. Art quilting is becoming increasingly time consuming….
Currently, I am working on a piece with Pat Archibald’s group based on a poem by Lemn Sissey.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Recycled ribbons
[vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text]Some time ago I noticed how attractive the ribbons are which smart shops wrap packages with and decided to make my friends bags as Christmas presents using the recycled ribbons and scraps of fabric from my larger projects. As always time disappeared but I did finally manage to make six and really enjoyed the process of creating each one and deciding what style might appeal to each friend.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Working on a triptych
[vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text]Working on a triptych- people have lived in the Outer Hebrides since the Bronze Age and have left traces on the landscape- standing stones, bronze pins and more recently the stones of long deserted crofts,‘ the marks of long forgotten fields on the hillsides and the peat diggings. The piece I hope evokes the ideas of these without making exact representations of them. I am submitting it to the SAQA “Made in Europe” show.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row]