Cornwall inspired.

Debby loves to visit St Ives in Cornwall and often finds inspiration there .This piece above and close up below ,is a batik she worked on silk.She worked sporadically through lockdown but has picked it up and using iron-on wadding has started to quilt it .She then usually works with Intense pencils to add extra 

detail so in the course of time this will appear as a finished work.

She bought this ready printed panel in Bude and has added her own details .The back shows the amount of stitch she has so far added .As a commercially  printed panel she felt it would be pertinent to say that in any exhibition.As you can see she has really added her own identity with the robin, branches and berries and made the scene adding colour and depth.

Her Summer was frustrating with family issues meaning her stays away were interrupted . As a consolation  she  was treated to a watercolour workshop at the Folk House. Debby didn't want to turn out a piece like everyone else so she did two one as instructed and her take below that.

And some playing with her new watercolour colours.

She managed to spend a half day at St Ives school of painting with Marian Taylor working in the style of Ben Nicholson ,oils  with still life on a window. Just keeping it simple.

And then something very different at an art studio at Bedruthan Steps, a flower pounding workshop. It sounds brutal and the flowers don't stand a chance but they get to live on in some fabric art !