A short video clip showing hand painting on an original silk artwork. This is the second stage of hand painting which takes place to cover the white areas after the removal of the resist which is needed during the first stage to prevent excessive bleed of the silk paints. Shadows and added details complete the piece ready for embroidery and quilting.
Above is the image of a completed work stretched and ready for framing.This is a short video showing some free machine embroidery on the new chalk rock pool piece during its creation. Hopefully I will be able to show this with other work at an open house in late May beginning of June if the pandemic allows.
The #showthelove campaign runs each year from 1st to 21st February and began in the UK in 2015 to get people to join together and ask politicians to work together to tackle the climate crisis.
This is a short video showing the creation of my green heart which was made in support of the climate change campaign Show the Love. I used silk painting and hand embroidered different textures to create moss and lichen and express my love of nature.
My green heart will be decorating my window over the Valentine's Day weekend (12 - 15 February) to #showthelove to my community.
The Outposted Project, is a participatory multidisciplinary arts project and platform for creativity and connection in a time of crisis. The idea to send Missives from Isolation, was started in Stroud after the first two weeks of lockdown by Juliette Morton and Susie Hetherington, who sent out an Ordinance Survey map of the Stroud Valleys to a selection of local artists, designers, poets, writers, and musicians. Each artist creates and pins work to the map, or works directly onto it, before posting it on to a new participant who lives in the map area.
The map areas have been extended across the UK to bring together a wide variety of creative professionals to work in collective solitude and create a chain of personal responses to the changing of circumstances due to the pandemic.The hope of Juliette and Susie is that the maps become ‘a shared canvas or a psychic space. A place where we can belong as artists at this time.’
I have received the Brighton and Hove map, which was first sent out in May 2020 and have now contributed my piece to the map.
I am currently working on some smaller pieces and this one is in progress and needs quite a lot hand embroidery. Hope the results are worth the effort!!