Experiments for Drawn by a thread

When making my “Drawn by a thread” piece for the forthcoming Out Of The Fold exhibition I misjudged the shrinkage and instead of having a background of 18” x 48” as required ended up with a    piece only 16” wide and 44” long. Never one to waste fabric or the opportunity to turn a failure into the possibility to try something new I cut it into two and am trying a couple of things.

Step one: stitched and washed

Stage one. Quilt sandwich, stitched with white cotton thread. Washed to shrink.

Colour added (markal

Experiment one. Use markal oil sticks to act as a resist, add colour and sheen.

Colour added (paint)

Experiment two. Using Jacquard Lumiere paints to add colour.



Now for the next stage....overdye

Drawn by a thread

Drawn by a thread (detail)

Just finished a new piece of work for the “Drawing Threads” exhibition by Out Of The Fold http://outofthefoldtextilegroup.blogspot.com/ which will be shown at The Guildhall,  Bury St Edmunds in May 2020

This is a new technique I have been playing with to get more colour and texture into my work. More experiments to follow. It uses a LOT of thread.

This is a small corner to tempt you along to the exhibition to see the whole thing.

Picking up the Threads

Picking up the Threads (detail)

This piece was meant to be submitted for the Norwich Makers Month juried exhibition taking place at The Forum from 8th - 23rd Feb 2020 https://norfolkmakersfestival.co.uk/
But I missed the deadline!

However I finished it and it will be exhibited as part of the Out Of The Fold exhibition at The Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds from 20th - 24th May 2020
https://burystedmundsguildhall.org.uk/

Picking up the Threads 2019 (detail)

It is about four metres long and used four thousand (yes, thousand) metres of 40 different coloured threads.

Here is a glimpse of part of the piece. To see the whole work come along to the exhibition in May.

The ‘dark’ corner

This just makes me laugh. Next to Ruth Issett and all her wonderfully bright colours my black corner stand just looks so dreary. Time for some colour Mary.

Beginnings of a new series?

I had such a lovely time at K&S at Harrogate playing with some ideas around layering up images using paper lamination and screenprinting with inks onto a variety of lightweight fabrics. It is not there yet - it is all just too light and bright for my murky palate sensibilities but I do think there is something to be developed here.

 The first layer is screen printed onto a dyed cotton fabric base using inks and readymade thermofax screens

This layer is screen printed onto a silk organza which gives a lovely light transparency

This layer is using a combination of paper lamination of all sorts of painted papers with screen printed images on top

 And finally adding some colour using Koh-I- Noor Dye paints

Harrogate

https://www.vycombe-arts.co.uk/harrogate-2019.html

Off to Knitting & Stitching Show in Harrogate. I will be ‘in action’ on Friday 29th Nov playing with paper lamination and printing to build up transparent layers.

Artist in Action

Doing my thing at Ally Pally - picture courtesy of Viv from ArtVanGo

Bit late in posting this but it has been a busy few weeks. I had a great time at the Knitting and Stitching Show at Elexandra Palace in October working as part of the Artists in Action zone.

Used the day, and the kit supplied by ArtVanGo, to explore some new ideas around layering up images using paper lamination, printing onto sheers and dyed and discharged fabrics. Early days yet and it is still a bit heavy but I feel a new series coming on....................

My pinny got a day out too