Jenn

Jenn has been exploring ideas for her fish.She too has used her Gelli plate and made textures that might be used with fish outlines.A cardboard and tissue plate toying with an idea for the rhyme ‘When the boat comes in ‘

A ‘brace’ of free machined trout on disappearing fabric.

and more fish on a hand pieced background of silk.

Exactly how it will all come together is still uncertain.

 

Kirsten

Kirsten has continued collecting boxes ,she is so lucky in finding them.

The one above  has seen better days but with a little bit of TLC Kirsten intends to add some Perspex and fill it with prints of keys and more of her Jesmonite keys.

She has continued to work on her vibrant stitched pieces and made some tassels for the keys.

She also brought along this print of a pine cone .She has really enjoyed being part of Print club .

 

Viv.

Viv ,like Debby ,has made use of Prinfab to have several of her photos printed onto fabric.

They were taken in St Ives and Barcelona .

She has started to look ,using a viewfinder to isolate parts of the image .We look forward to seeing how this may develop a d how many pieces may follow .

She has also revisited the humble dandelion .A piece she did some years ago sold but having some hand dyed fabrics she has made yet another incarnation.

 

Fumi

Fumi had been making use of her Gelli plate to explore pattern and layering using plant material from her garden .These pieces are multi coloured but 

she has also mimicked Cyanotype by a clever choice of colour.

For her Pearl inspiration for Centrespace in October she has chosen to stitch a piece representing Thirty years.She has precisely marked her fabric with squares ,one  and a half squares represent one month. it is so very even and such a simple but beautiful representation.The back is equally delicious!

Her husband plays golf and Fumi has taken a wooden tee ,apparently designed to be broken when hit, and crocheted a flag to fit .It is a play on Hidden as half the tee sticks in the ground and is therefore hidden.

She delights in using the discarded and has made a stitch book with envelopes we all get in the post.The patterns within add a certain charm, but Fumi’ precise folding is the real star.

 

June.

 

Debby treated us to a collection of prints this month .They have a new printmaking tutor at Stoke Lodge and she has been doing some classes.

They have been created on a variety of substrates, the bird on Tetrapak and the penguins on plastic.

Some of these   are older and were recently unearthed !

These were inspired by Anna Jeffries succulents and have been printed on fabric as well as paper.

Printmaking is so versatile and gives a lot of possibilities as these lovely examples show.

Janis.

Janis popped in briefly to catch up .She brought along a coloured paper piece .She said it was based on a Victorian folded piece.

It opens to create a compartment inside .Janis had decorated it with a floral based motif.

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She said it was quite tricky to achieve accurate folding as it is in thirds, “quarters are easier. It would be good developed in fabric ,using something like interfacing to stiffen it .It might help to achieve the folds and keep its structure.

 

Kirsten.

A piece of vintage textile which might have been used to inspire the colours in work Kirsten is developing for Centrespace.

She has been casting keys in Jessmonite 

and stitching them to vibrant pieced silk.

Following her work with boxes in Prior she has another stash she might incorporate.We also thought the work might lend itself to being printed by Prinfab ,then framed into delicious little gems !

 

Viv

Viv had pieces in the 1904 group exhibition at the Red House in Bristol.She was delighted to have sold the sunset above ,as well as a second piece.

She has begun a new pastel drawing of some crocus above  ,

and below a new landscape.

This watercolour uses  a limited palette of five colours,Apologies for the out of focus image .

She has been exploring our theme of ‘HiddenGems ‘ for Centrespace in October. 

She has used a variety of techniques and materials to produce these .

Coloured backgrounds ,machine and hand stitch as well as beading .

 

Sue

Sue had been exploring some ideas using shells.The soft blue works well to frame the scenes.

She had spent a day in Crickhowell at the studio of Lee Wright www.lee_wright.com

Creating a reduction lino print .We thought it was great and incredible to do all that in a day course and come away with prints of such a good standard !

She had sent some of her work to Prinfab for printing these are some detail from image below.

There are lots of fabrics to choose from and mobile phone images are so good these days

She took advantage of a ‘three for two ‘ offer and printed on organza to be able to explore what she can do with them .