With fewer of us meeting because of holidays and other commitments you would think we might not have much to see and talk about but you'd be wrong.Debby started off with lots of interesting items beside her lovely work.
First , the book pictured which has been produced by Mandy Pattullo's daughter Alice .She has used her own drawings and illustrations'' in collaboration"with Eric Ravilious who did works about the White Horse ,some previously unpublished .It had the blessing of the family and makes for a delightful book.
Next she had found this ingenious gadget for hanging pieces such as scarves etc.it consists of a wood batten which has a long magnet attached .The cloth is laid against this then a flexible magnet attached over the top holds it all in place.There is a bottom batten that does the same enabling the fabric to hang straight .
First piece she showed was this little embroidery in preparation for her workshop at Court House Farm near Portishead on 25th and 26th September .The lavender blue really zings against the lime green ground.
Over this last year she has been doing much more painting and drawing and these two pieces are a collaboration with her husband.He really enjoys applying paint and creating textures, then Debby steps in and adds the imagery.
She hopes to take these into textile and with this in mind had sent the images to PRINFAB to be printed onto fabric ,in this case velvet.
She had also spent a lovely weekend up in Cheltenham at theYard artspace.
The course run by the lovely Sue Brown was "Botanical contact print with collagraph"
The first day was spent preparing the botanical printed papers
Then they created collagraphs using non toxic methods such as glue and card which would be printed onto their papers once dry .
They were shown how to use chine colle to add extra layers to their print using printed tissue and dressmaking pattern paper as well as utilising more than one colour in their prints.
Looks like Debby really took to this ,will we see more developments ?
