tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67212688493122515642024-03-06T04:04:32.523+00:00Traverse Textile ArtAngelic Emporiumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440397232797467904noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6721268849312251564.post-43478975636366051862022-05-08T19:45:00.000+01:002022-05-08T19:45:05.668+01:00Changes afoot!<p>Here we are in May already and we've been very busy over the last couple of months - not to mention Covid and other complications, so it's great to get back here with some important news.</p><p>After our very successful gallery exhibition at the Sock Gallery, Loughborough and good shows at NEC Fashion and Embroidery and Uttoxeter Quilt and Stitch Village, we have been looking ahead to our future plans and have decided to expand. So, this is going out today on our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/traversetextileart" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/traversetextileart/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> pages ...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdFsD4znheEkU-rQ65fv8VQC4gdZdE8JO3S9hOj_sJ8BhA88okeoMAa9bVQj9MbZmEOo03vbGDa-f3225vkV_57VfVdii1tGa_MdG8S82wl-dkGnWoQfvtICuEDQwlhGOlneTvqLSw5UV-hJR_0x2Ss1XSonufLfrvEfk94A510SoEAZRxfVwCR0bQ/s681/Traverse%20advert%20+%20header%205.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="681" height="616" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdFsD4znheEkU-rQ65fv8VQC4gdZdE8JO3S9hOj_sJ8BhA88okeoMAa9bVQj9MbZmEOo03vbGDa-f3225vkV_57VfVdii1tGa_MdG8S82wl-dkGnWoQfvtICuEDQwlhGOlneTvqLSw5UV-hJR_0x2Ss1XSonufLfrvEfk94A510SoEAZRxfVwCR0bQ/w640-h616/Traverse%20advert%20+%20header%205.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>... together with this post.</div><p><i>'Being a well-established group of mixed media textile artists, Traverse is set up to create work, often using diverse themes as a starting point, with a view to seeking out opportunities to exhibit at a professional and exhibition level. This opportunity is open to all artists who use some form of textiles in their work.</i></p><p><i>Please remember that your commitment as a member will involve you not only in exhibiting opportunities, but also offering the group your time towards administration, publicity, setting up exhibitions. etc. We are looking to share these aspects as we move forward as we all have various other commitments - many hands make light work!'</i></p><p>If you are interested in finding out more or would like to be considered:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Please check out our work on our Instagram and Facebook pages following the links above</li><li>Please then email us at traversetextileart@googlemail.com telling us about yourself and your work and attaching some photos.</li></ul><p></p><p>We are meeting as usual at Deb's studio in Birmingham on June 1st and hope to be discussing any applications then. We look forward to hearing from you and seeing your work.</p><p><i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: inherit;">Cath</span></i></p><br />Cath Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04564139434627832433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6721268849312251564.post-66646323915550221802022-02-19T00:34:00.000+00:002022-02-19T00:34:43.903+00:00Who knows where the time goes?<p> So where did January go? And New Year? Or even Christmas? They've all passed me by in a blurred haze of ill-health (both my own and in the family), various choral performances over the Festive season and also a massive (always leave it till the last minute) rush to prepare and frame my work for Traverse's first ever gallery exhibition.</p><p>Happy to report that all is now much calmer on all fronts and our exhibition has been up and running for several weeks, with just over a week to go at The Sock Gallery, Loughborough Town Hall.</p><p>'Before' and 'After' photos of one area on set-up day, with an action shot in between!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-jhrk3WfT9he_eTpgCxwgqOjm4_e5pnpNsu4rJGSYmKmOfeJKdN29tFlTK-qNKz3UGTH5fZbeO7gUz5LStcJbgHaVYC4OGQP6hK6ZGOQ3I0Acn_zY0JTCqAJnjuvPNFyqIghXz-ygfOUNmpUP1KAPCFM8pRt2YqcU4xeV7j9od9TmBtzu_scu3FxW=s1024" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-jhrk3WfT9he_eTpgCxwgqOjm4_e5pnpNsu4rJGSYmKmOfeJKdN29tFlTK-qNKz3UGTH5fZbeO7gUz5LStcJbgHaVYC4OGQP6hK6ZGOQ3I0Acn_zY0JTCqAJnjuvPNFyqIghXz-ygfOUNmpUP1KAPCFM8pRt2YqcU4xeV7j9od9TmBtzu_scu3FxW=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNbglaSBKiC5b1DaVuy9szgfevQ9BRXUj7XNDUtCjk-5GD-udTpmExcsJLcA1xqeOLwInleGqCuHEgPryPlj2lq1T-R7DuuT_H7uX1FCaD7lllaHSgl7jqNEgLFUI08T6jkLwsS5S5U_oozMPMMlubphuKqeQXWRtiXn-0QyYdgz-ErlWBWVn88Dly=s1024" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNbglaSBKiC5b1DaVuy9szgfevQ9BRXUj7XNDUtCjk-5GD-udTpmExcsJLcA1xqeOLwInleGqCuHEgPryPlj2lq1T-R7DuuT_H7uX1FCaD7lllaHSgl7jqNEgLFUI08T6jkLwsS5S5U_oozMPMMlubphuKqeQXWRtiXn-0QyYdgz-ErlWBWVn88Dly=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3j1zej75M_dP9fuOQ1tibuFNPzX_-Kk4nokZoyALwKnLPTaZo4ZGz--WoV-pIJ5gJgdXWQxwEAGeYKWqo6mpMI0mHPylYYFI-sShNY8AeVOXKI9Sf9xGsQznwHOVtazKPrJgTWB990RMrrjzaqltjKt1n4JnND3z-OSpb25ufA8PtAtVJE82GmWjm=s1024" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3j1zej75M_dP9fuOQ1tibuFNPzX_-Kk4nokZoyALwKnLPTaZo4ZGz--WoV-pIJ5gJgdXWQxwEAGeYKWqo6mpMI0mHPylYYFI-sShNY8AeVOXKI9Sf9xGsQznwHOVtazKPrJgTWB990RMrrjzaqltjKt1n4JnND3z-OSpb25ufA8PtAtVJE82GmWjm=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>View from the entrance<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEig10tuyRrTyHDIv0wQECm_QxBUMbemKdcTLhPSt4lj6Skq2OoYpiuMho0VXGKYnwvz2aJf7NEghfwWgp3L3Vj4hSCvRuMg-ITHsUegiwbMKiwUeJ_N3qe7LhsJ-w_ObF5jrefm175gzyinbHTrRnlqL4TP_eUxrKOxcVl9Mv5gEqiG1XJgpWLC2gQV=s1024" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEig10tuyRrTyHDIv0wQECm_QxBUMbemKdcTLhPSt4lj6Skq2OoYpiuMho0VXGKYnwvz2aJf7NEghfwWgp3L3Vj4hSCvRuMg-ITHsUegiwbMKiwUeJ_N3qe7LhsJ-w_ObF5jrefm175gzyinbHTrRnlqL4TP_eUxrKOxcVl9Mv5gEqiG1XJgpWLC2gQV=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>The Sock Gallery is a beautiful, light and airy space and we are thrilled to see our work there. Here you can see Dia's wonderful hanging, revealed in the background, drawing you in ...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhv33-tncv61K1N1SR16ki8g3kSQ3Cc5lzPEg7ky0APrjgCKAdvC3wd27bAcy0I467b_PZ9q30rfF_heTJQ9Zm2LL6P7NlM8XXIPDTyyQkWbkrz9C3XC3ny0fbtMvePSD0avGKFI5MaBuGUl7V_Y2inkeqsgM-TcNryjVQRWvcfqVIvJwlrOtmaj3TR=s1440" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1440" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhv33-tncv61K1N1SR16ki8g3kSQ3Cc5lzPEg7ky0APrjgCKAdvC3wd27bAcy0I467b_PZ9q30rfF_heTJQ9Zm2LL6P7NlM8XXIPDTyyQkWbkrz9C3XC3ny0fbtMvePSD0avGKFI5MaBuGUl7V_Y2inkeqsgM-TcNryjVQRWvcfqVIvJwlrOtmaj3TR=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>... and here it is! Well - a section of it as it's enormous! Many hours of work there on the wall.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhin6OC0vCvKkz_cCqoooIPoTuivScX2_uBT95olywsgmZCn_U4B8U48PxSAD76rTIz-1v7O7zUB5ClZs9JmPkf_fKzoZhlFRxdbpeNz4na8ZHEXWsrULE_nglXrU_g6DS6ukQ8lOQkz3wvK60O2Y24Sk3vW-sllLSGeD2HfVSjTSfVFv1imVPY94Vy=s1440" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1086" data-original-width="1440" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhin6OC0vCvKkz_cCqoooIPoTuivScX2_uBT95olywsgmZCn_U4B8U48PxSAD76rTIz-1v7O7zUB5ClZs9JmPkf_fKzoZhlFRxdbpeNz4na8ZHEXWsrULE_nglXrU_g6DS6ukQ8lOQkz3wvK60O2Y24Sk3vW-sllLSGeD2HfVSjTSfVFv1imVPY94Vy=w640-h482" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Deb's dress and Vicki's hanging and skull studies - she is pleased to have sold a couple of these!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWSg6v_Ep2p1URGYP9zJ9WBKRMtqYIhgpbA9w-ElbPL9kavphrcvL-q59BnY29C-wxDd33oJuF6xlLbIk7FkVYr-AgA78ude3AphiqJIp7IrrHvjVGnq5y5_iR9vUajk6kCLXwPvDdNFy1pajTcVUkq1olXkygxVNa5scYvYuMTRpkgDsVuEpI1P52=s1440" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1086" data-original-width="1440" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWSg6v_Ep2p1URGYP9zJ9WBKRMtqYIhgpbA9w-ElbPL9kavphrcvL-q59BnY29C-wxDd33oJuF6xlLbIk7FkVYr-AgA78ude3AphiqJIp7IrrHvjVGnq5y5_iR9vUajk6kCLXwPvDdNFy1pajTcVUkq1olXkygxVNa5scYvYuMTRpkgDsVuEpI1P52=w640-h482" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The wonderful work on Janet's wall:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhC3P4J6HPFWXOMoLSKXCTgn0nV6pnR8Ix1Lyxw5sgE90tlMIjjiuX7_45BdHZ1T7s0SHfnjZawAXBfR-PlAPf3YeM8RENeaiyfcSMk8VcptbBm73ohP0phYyrB7zvA1Og5iYQ1iIPouncUQ53o7Gy0eTMSWk9X-VrVOvDitc37eUQxegBNZ3wbaDQR=s1024" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="901" data-original-width="1024" height="564" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhC3P4J6HPFWXOMoLSKXCTgn0nV6pnR8Ix1Lyxw5sgE90tlMIjjiuX7_45BdHZ1T7s0SHfnjZawAXBfR-PlAPf3YeM8RENeaiyfcSMk8VcptbBm73ohP0phYyrB7zvA1Og5iYQ1iIPouncUQ53o7Gy0eTMSWk9X-VrVOvDitc37eUQxegBNZ3wbaDQR=w640-h564" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3p_nt_52NYsPHlETWaJkRdcAcOJwon_QNSDxOF1TKNN6-__NhFuoHgB7uStNR-idt6hekEZO-0U8aV6oG1FhjGzmIbBY0SUjcx_yeU3BHEonoFXVFFRK9lHStifSQ9oiIMIW_CD9s13a1pTA4k68hyt4mmNBS6XDvBZgovDW-F4CTg-z6FIcDY1d5=s1024" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="744" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3p_nt_52NYsPHlETWaJkRdcAcOJwon_QNSDxOF1TKNN6-__NhFuoHgB7uStNR-idt6hekEZO-0U8aV6oG1FhjGzmIbBY0SUjcx_yeU3BHEonoFXVFFRK9lHStifSQ9oiIMIW_CD9s13a1pTA4k68hyt4mmNBS6XDvBZgovDW-F4CTg-z6FIcDY1d5=w466-h640" width="466" /></a></div><br /><p>Another of Deb's amazing 'unwearable dresses' with her fabulous 3D felts ...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKXeHJR25YA_lD4U6kCTJ9Bh5LNAwOqNJHLsnG1GGSExwbi9frj6fCRswgcZw0bl9puPkN4IaALgyxMiAIJ4Yb0Lyby20wfzGcuIjKfEXniwUAmXQwtWbsJ1x5fdMrGUp3n9kv8p-_awvOjLuMv_L6UHa1xlWd8S4k6EqMMxRjrkxgvBfe3tlWPYmK=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKXeHJR25YA_lD4U6kCTJ9Bh5LNAwOqNJHLsnG1GGSExwbi9frj6fCRswgcZw0bl9puPkN4IaALgyxMiAIJ4Yb0Lyby20wfzGcuIjKfEXniwUAmXQwtWbsJ1x5fdMrGUp3n9kv8p-_awvOjLuMv_L6UHa1xlWd8S4k6EqMMxRjrkxgvBfe3tlWPYmK=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><p>... and some of her beautiful embroidery.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6qegDbjriYXZb9fXQaW_HkTFi0BWaqhtw7Nfa6X3_McFCHesc5nyc3QUpyC3lFceTS4D4yaekCvk9gsirAYd0CWcve1M3d_uOFmDbYTHKRr3yyeap3WL58e2jwRKTzubEf4NO7T8FU_Pu-ShpQTGj-MBE4shOC0A0I0MQXWq7AGh8S0lcoWB9qQMo=s1993" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1993" data-original-width="1950" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6qegDbjriYXZb9fXQaW_HkTFi0BWaqhtw7Nfa6X3_McFCHesc5nyc3QUpyC3lFceTS4D4yaekCvk9gsirAYd0CWcve1M3d_uOFmDbYTHKRr3yyeap3WL58e2jwRKTzubEf4NO7T8FU_Pu-ShpQTGj-MBE4shOC0A0I0MQXWq7AGh8S0lcoWB9qQMo=w626-h640" width="626" /></a></div><br /><p>Dia has sold some of her fabulous 'Northern Light' series, seen here on the left:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj738JCHntcEkshLl584mvZjDuNsgjz7tOlRkjnbCN2dIJ31i1C0nO0uRTvUMnfOomLDmGZthJ36e1STI6Nke9Kaeh-ZcWlC6-GFSaM0DGwl7Lsa5A9zgVkiyUyHmO7OtQYyVkD8Wi3gpsXXU4_e-Rx1tZMssxuTFLjv64pEgpUcoyvLyv2AYVtZOZZ=s1024" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj738JCHntcEkshLl584mvZjDuNsgjz7tOlRkjnbCN2dIJ31i1C0nO0uRTvUMnfOomLDmGZthJ36e1STI6Nke9Kaeh-ZcWlC6-GFSaM0DGwl7Lsa5A9zgVkiyUyHmO7OtQYyVkD8Wi3gpsXXU4_e-Rx1tZMssxuTFLjv64pEgpUcoyvLyv2AYVtZOZZ=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Vicki's two stunning large pieces, flanked by a couple from Cath:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSLOjfGDEDcXehinz9fYcHRmAQCw_m2Sdgwtdvzl3G3ErYlCTx8gV6vFQdxoP5Wp7HJ0-qZj2h2vNXty3hTmSM5Ju7lwqJKGGViRX_dLZR8ucB5yYkeBDJ1VdhcEY2cCf40ddssheOvZoJFp9z5LhpV-1coUyp7DJz4BmksM2nfiwUwLekWKX1MGWL=s1024" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSLOjfGDEDcXehinz9fYcHRmAQCw_m2Sdgwtdvzl3G3ErYlCTx8gV6vFQdxoP5Wp7HJ0-qZj2h2vNXty3hTmSM5Ju7lwqJKGGViRX_dLZR8ucB5yYkeBDJ1VdhcEY2cCf40ddssheOvZoJFp9z5LhpV-1coUyp7DJz4BmksM2nfiwUwLekWKX1MGWL=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Finally a slightly wobbly video of Cath's wall:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pQcyyvlaL0A" width="320" youtube-src-id="pQcyyvlaL0A"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Here are a couple of photos from our last 'Meet the Artist' session. Not sure what I was saying here but hopefully, it was interesting!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivUVydYtqSvhi6bzgK9f8thT611aim7PgkfwCHEAYYcjjM-w3Juh4SNVC8wPVZdHRo5SPeddSLp_eozSHyeUscU09BNR7p1XhY_6Y8XfADBAP-q4kaK7I7tWljm2te5cahXOnSgdT3GBURymWHzSGEwWBBnfNw2pUw0zxjQZdcl_1Qpdlw0nTn4GeC=s1440" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivUVydYtqSvhi6bzgK9f8thT611aim7PgkfwCHEAYYcjjM-w3Juh4SNVC8wPVZdHRo5SPeddSLp_eozSHyeUscU09BNR7p1XhY_6Y8XfADBAP-q4kaK7I7tWljm2te5cahXOnSgdT3GBURymWHzSGEwWBBnfNw2pUw0zxjQZdcl_1Qpdlw0nTn4GeC=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Rather excitingly, I was discussing a possible commission here.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMWp9e6XMlf8J-ufk2oIx3zzj5C2iyFxFEt1zNFXLy6f23O_Bf0QgW0y7cLbCruV-EvkjYynusOtj8MRpiEjVObv9UVgyEodBKUbp3w5Xx66KOkg4eVLAczQp26rMYcr1yAT2IE4BN3wYH4whSIVmrUSDWASfan1WjwTSTaSyy_F6e2C79Jb0ftoqV=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1542" data-original-width="2048" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMWp9e6XMlf8J-ufk2oIx3zzj5C2iyFxFEt1zNFXLy6f23O_Bf0QgW0y7cLbCruV-EvkjYynusOtj8MRpiEjVObv9UVgyEodBKUbp3w5Xx66KOkg4eVLAczQp26rMYcr1yAT2IE4BN3wYH4whSIVmrUSDWASfan1WjwTSTaSyy_F6e2C79Jb0ftoqV=w640-h482" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>We'll be in the gallery for our final 'Meet the Artist' session on Saturday, 19th February. Looking forward to seeing more lovely people and chatting about our work. Maybe see you there ...</div><div><p><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i>Cath</i></span></p></div>Cath Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04564139434627832433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6721268849312251564.post-33494856655827778372021-11-13T09:40:00.003+00:002021-11-13T09:47:19.947+00:00And then there were five<p>Continuing the theme of change and new beginnings from the last post, we are very happy to share the news that we have a new member - Janet Donnell - a long-time friend of Cath's, who, like her, discovered textile art after retirement and has never looked back!</p><p>Recently, we spent a lovely day together at the studio to enable Deb, Dia, Vicki and Janet to get to know one another - chatting and working alongside each other. Everything went just fine and she fitted right in with the general exploratory fun and playtime that usually exists in our studio days!</p><p>Here's how Janet described herself for her page on this blog:</p><p>
</p><p class="Body"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span lang="EN-US">My </span><span lang="EN-US">approach to
t</span><span lang="EN-US">extile work is very much </span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>“</span><span lang="EN-US">What will happen if</span>…<span lang="ZH-TW">?</span>” <span lang="EN-US">I have a germ of an idea, then begin to explore
materials and techniques to see what happens when various methods are combined
and developed. I love to work with the soft luscious textures of wools and
yarns, or the flamboyant brightness of silk, as well as sheer fabrics, paints
and dyes, textured fibres, cottons, lace, beads, papers - or anything else that
will add to a finished surface that is full of touchable texture. Working with my sewing and embellishing
machines, as well as a lot of hand stitches, something emerges. I find
landscapes and maps, rivers and contours - and the finished piece of work is
usually nothing like the idea I started out with….</span></i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Janet was working on this beautiful piece on our studio day:<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtw_XvGUmQ1AKqNzBZEaEYdD8V5H5cj65GdlJQ3LzhWTFvQMLDCWX_Hch0VphijcJIYpHwwvHqnlia0knDKS31HluA3d1ehhivOWiqONGUCjtowAZ3ACpOQwlN2NL5ZQy6d6P1JOrXr6w/s490/Shetland+Pathways.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="481" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtw_XvGUmQ1AKqNzBZEaEYdD8V5H5cj65GdlJQ3LzhWTFvQMLDCWX_Hch0VphijcJIYpHwwvHqnlia0knDKS31HluA3d1ehhivOWiqONGUCjtowAZ3ACpOQwlN2NL5ZQy6d6P1JOrXr6w/w628-h640/Shetland+Pathways.jpeg" width="628" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shetland Pathways - stitch detail<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Here's the full piece, which was finished back at home and wrapped around a canvas.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfpDY1k5FK4aPTqCYwi4XuevahvqCXmxKzi1xOWK0NFlkEj6HarAXoO40U_TWNKdS8sp8DnLjIaFpPTRg-rv_dvrsszlhNAoL2-RER8TUBrr-LkFRNRE7Kzig4vhTTQD3vs4WjOCCo6M8/s1024/IMG-20211108-WA0001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="799" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfpDY1k5FK4aPTqCYwi4XuevahvqCXmxKzi1xOWK0NFlkEj6HarAXoO40U_TWNKdS8sp8DnLjIaFpPTRg-rv_dvrsszlhNAoL2-RER8TUBrr-LkFRNRE7Kzig4vhTTQD3vs4WjOCCo6M8/w500-h640/IMG-20211108-WA0001.jpg" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shetland Pathways</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Janet wrote these words about the piece.</p><p></p><p class="Body"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span lang="EN-US">This is made
with wool yarns, hand-dyed and bought in Shetland. It is worked onto an un-dyed
wool background that has been machine felted onto a wool felt base fabric. It
has connections to where I live, with Leicestershire Black-Faced sheep wool
yarn running though it in spirals. </span>It reflects
the time spent in the very quiet and empty Shetland Isles during a gap in the
Covid restrictions which allowed us a brief holiday up there in August 2020.
The discoveries we made walking along the coastal paths are tied up in the
swirls and stitches. </i></span></p><p class="Body"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can see more of Janet's work by checking out her page by following the link above.</span></p><p class="Body"><br /></p><p class="Body">Meanwhile, here's a little look at what the rest of us were doing in the studio that day. Deb and Dia have begun spending regular days at Littleheath Barn and one of their projects has been stitching on small squares of dyed, painted or printed fabric.</p><p class="Body">Here's one of many lovely squares that Dia bought to show us ...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij8oeVSq6p4LmPh06v2jPNdw0wryOlxJC9CfazUgTyH4C6BKbp22MG0-yRX19XBJQC8BbzYGmcT55fcQj-SxQRVLkf1OaTii4WAWgyxTqieaE2cUR54onK5IoUiHeJoiSyFbtKKoAtyfg/s1024/IMG-20211110-WA0000.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij8oeVSq6p4LmPh06v2jPNdw0wryOlxJC9CfazUgTyH4C6BKbp22MG0-yRX19XBJQC8BbzYGmcT55fcQj-SxQRVLkf1OaTii4WAWgyxTqieaE2cUR54onK5IoUiHeJoiSyFbtKKoAtyfg/w620-h640/IMG-20211110-WA0000.jpg" width="620" /></a></div><br /><p class="Body">... and a beautiful one from Deb, from a series called 'Other Worlds'.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_bxqSdX9fSdpslFNK3qBzAVlCSPgsGWOkGskFhGTfDn-w4vEDhsVk-jQMzJXBMgYa7vqPdDE1eG7iEdxR_chYLK5Od-kOcTDB250CIxqtir_rHBKsqPRNfgkQB6R8-iICvmqQDregPNE/s1560/IMG-20211108-WA0006.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1220" data-original-width="1560" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_bxqSdX9fSdpslFNK3qBzAVlCSPgsGWOkGskFhGTfDn-w4vEDhsVk-jQMzJXBMgYa7vqPdDE1eG7iEdxR_chYLK5Od-kOcTDB250CIxqtir_rHBKsqPRNfgkQB6R8-iICvmqQDregPNE/w640-h500/IMG-20211108-WA0006.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>It was very interesting for me to see these smaller pieces as I imagined I would struggle to work on that scale but I might just have a go, sometime!<div><br /></div><div>In complete contrast, Vicki continued working on the very large printed piece she began last time - making more great printing blocks and adding a third colour, which worked very well. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW6Mwrq5ntVkakvlR3sCtuB2d5NtDrGmoV1-BZPL2lVlwC-4j7BrqYmDY273xCff1aceZ47HA7ytRXT5u0kefKRYTh44qkUDG6a5ex_2UMfHlzxaM9Q37htJJAN5fRKhmTzxtsDiTdmZE/s1024/IMG-20211108-WA0007.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW6Mwrq5ntVkakvlR3sCtuB2d5NtDrGmoV1-BZPL2lVlwC-4j7BrqYmDY273xCff1aceZ47HA7ytRXT5u0kefKRYTh44qkUDG6a5ex_2UMfHlzxaM9Q37htJJAN5fRKhmTzxtsDiTdmZE/w640-h640/IMG-20211108-WA0007.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="Body">I was looking ahead to our upcoming exhibition at The Sock Gallery, Loughborough and adding beads and stitch to a smaller piece, which I began a while ago, using angelina fibres on a velvet background, heated and then cut with a soldering iron - nearly ready to go into a frame now.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX7deifPIUb8ccYDZOzxVX7dgTv6bPRh52xOeeHnDqZNwzqijEXxnx1vKwzC2Gb2sPhVU7eo8eAAYJIUod1eDLJHe9hPamLMKOwhVTjmmGwijVeQuf91EG9qk1hE2zYdnVnTse-ykK45w/s2048/20211110_155345.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX7deifPIUb8ccYDZOzxVX7dgTv6bPRh52xOeeHnDqZNwzqijEXxnx1vKwzC2Gb2sPhVU7eo8eAAYJIUod1eDLJHe9hPamLMKOwhVTjmmGwijVeQuf91EG9qk1hE2zYdnVnTse-ykK45w/w480-h640/20211110_155345.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p class="Body">Altogether we had a very happy and productive day as we welcomed Janet to Traverse and we are now very pleased to be continuing our creative journey, moving forwards together as a quintet.</p><p class="Body"><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Cath</span></i></p><p></p></div>Cath Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04564139434627832433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6721268849312251564.post-60463387427154982782021-09-17T16:13:00.000+01:002021-09-17T16:13:19.273+01:00Times of beginnings<p>I've been contemplating writing this new blog for several weeks now, in a spectacular case of procrastination, and I've realised that sometimes you just have to go for it, even if you're not sure what you're going to say. It's been such a long time since the previous one at the end of last year and in some ways very little was changing in Traverse's world. My relationship with my textile art to a large extent remained tenuous and I've gone for long periods without making anything, apart from occasional bursts of creative energy. I know from our Zoom chats that Deb, Dia and Vicki have also, for various reasons, gone for long periods without doing much textile art.</p><p>However, things are slowly changing and finally we've managed to meet together in Deb's studio a couple of times recently. It's felt so good to be in the studio again, working alongside each other and sparking creativity and inspiration together. We are keeping everything crossed that planned shows next year will be going ahead and also have our very first gallery exhibition coming up in January next year. It will be at <a href="https://www.loughboroughtownhall.co.uk/sock_gallery/events" target="_blank">Sock Gallery, Loughborough Town Hall</a> and we are very excited!</p><p>We decided to call the exhibition 'Together/Apart - a Retrospective' to reflect how our creative lives have been affected recently. As we wrote in our description:</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">“An important part of our ethos is to celebrate our diversity, share our various strengths and to grow together, working side by side. However, having recently lived through strange times in our world and working apart for over a year, we are celebrating coming together again to present this retrospective, which reflects not only work on our themes but also work produced alone, exploring loss, personal viewpoints and our emotional landscapes – together and apart.”</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Here are a few sneak peeks at what we've been up to.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Vicki has been making her own printing blocks and playing with paint and embossing powder ... </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1QVnT4g8kPiKGxyI-_spJFIce1zm0tBsQEvcGcIzSmL2TuNP1CzIrPlWsOcvhClLmp73W1sK4rUBaTc_pHvrxRoWo-KSlUCMSODyKmk-9gU406iaWAyYf4oQ3qpEXlOewlHb8U0pG0X0/s2048/20210826_162909.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW59Leyji6g8C1upjet2tAfemGb_zSX_o_RAsjbgiDn63u5ULX07TuyLvXgMLK48Bwu2qhD_h4AFWlcURdjQhWFNwkF8vuqduhrvFUbEmMWa6r8UNtoLYjW-2ofQV_G9nXjdg74DpW6fs/s2048/20210826_150847_001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW59Leyji6g8C1upjet2tAfemGb_zSX_o_RAsjbgiDn63u5ULX07TuyLvXgMLK48Bwu2qhD_h4AFWlcURdjQhWFNwkF8vuqduhrvFUbEmMWa6r8UNtoLYjW-2ofQV_G9nXjdg74DpW6fs/w480-h640/20210826_150847_001.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSO-ak4pYZTE8LUdN7wsvfQeTiwtrFRCFHwoi6hhhGAGbs5l876bijJrmDMLlk6Kj78POsNPfs6w_zZLbKzsgCoS7s0WFA00J8IablpHqJ1cNbXrgauuZwW9XVRpNGdJvQVSYw83jyKJg/s2048/20210826_153112+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1634" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSO-ak4pYZTE8LUdN7wsvfQeTiwtrFRCFHwoi6hhhGAGbs5l876bijJrmDMLlk6Kj78POsNPfs6w_zZLbKzsgCoS7s0WFA00J8IablpHqJ1cNbXrgauuZwW9XVRpNGdJvQVSYw83jyKJg/w510-h640/20210826_153112+%25282%2529.jpg" width="510" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br />... and a little bit of fabric manipulation.</span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA1d26rteXf6ZCdKy7rE9kDfo-LNNPUkkCUyC1GsI8hYQa-TySL6rtEvNW5mfPDtzy1s0_BXcz0q2YMBxpQe37mA40tGxBhWPhkHQXV10Todhrbv4sqaHeK4uar0pLZYJpYCCfHrG4Pi4/s2048/20210719_153349.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA1d26rteXf6ZCdKy7rE9kDfo-LNNPUkkCUyC1GsI8hYQa-TySL6rtEvNW5mfPDtzy1s0_BXcz0q2YMBxpQe37mA40tGxBhWPhkHQXV10Todhrbv4sqaHeK4uar0pLZYJpYCCfHrG4Pi4/w480-h640/20210719_153349.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Dia has been recycling (or is it upcycling?) coffee capsules, inspired by fireworks - the first stage is playing around with different arrangements before adding stitch.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHu4CS5NNYH6Zs59ja2Mk_oaLkSMR4IOaQj_IiQ-zvb4dYoAtiNJTDfVjqdbIMvtFPFWdexTIWA0EjxFwB5KqfEs9bFr6PSV7zUpmS414QBwElvV7XynhtPWAe3BFu1aP3Zxm0FC3yK7w/s2048/20210826_155824.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHu4CS5NNYH6Zs59ja2Mk_oaLkSMR4IOaQj_IiQ-zvb4dYoAtiNJTDfVjqdbIMvtFPFWdexTIWA0EjxFwB5KqfEs9bFr6PSV7zUpmS414QBwElvV7XynhtPWAe3BFu1aP3Zxm0FC3yK7w/w480-h640/20210826_155824.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I wonder if this will be the final choice.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmsyoAZWI8TcFHVl_WOQMD34fMiPeFlZ9epN0LYUgwGBPkkqYrPEeIxEbTWoHrW1CGVFP_rNfj2WRVksSBqj3EXP7fH0Bdh8kjA0wKv4q5Cv6jaanYX-G1L8LKMZK4wL7Rzjg1wWGbXMw/s2048/20210826_155817.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1627" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmsyoAZWI8TcFHVl_WOQMD34fMiPeFlZ9epN0LYUgwGBPkkqYrPEeIxEbTWoHrW1CGVFP_rNfj2WRVksSBqj3EXP7fH0Bdh8kjA0wKv4q5Cv6jaanYX-G1L8LKMZK4wL7Rzjg1wWGbXMw/w509-h640/20210826_155817.jpg" width="509" /></a></div><br /><p>Another of Dia's explorations with this felted background and more fabric manipulation ...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitAJZGq5NHR-OyVw7AHNkG61mNJZGR5vClLfHtt2cb6d5tzuZCc40VmFCkVad1_SubhX-TvIVib2GaXeB1uDs9qXNJuRkDEtv39yhDric-n-jurmfR4gH1occ5baa8NcmAbgg4Pei6mLQ/s2048/20210724_003043+%25283%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1628" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitAJZGq5NHR-OyVw7AHNkG61mNJZGR5vClLfHtt2cb6d5tzuZCc40VmFCkVad1_SubhX-TvIVib2GaXeB1uDs9qXNJuRkDEtv39yhDric-n-jurmfR4gH1occ5baa8NcmAbgg4Pei6mLQ/w508-h640/20210724_003043+%25283%2529.jpg" width="508" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">... and some stitching on some beautiful hand- dyed fabric.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl0M3ZLmMVQ3Y9LL3E3W3DKJd0uy9cE8GgQfTQ6ak4J7vrVZdF0aU-khM-lBlyLCM7FTJxlk2IkzzLaUDs9sSKpEa5x-Gb6NSIya2tAqSOp164lu_kE0su-mSuZgwmXWy_UiAzZsMDNRI/s2048/20210724_002835+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1613" data-original-width="2048" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl0M3ZLmMVQ3Y9LL3E3W3DKJd0uy9cE8GgQfTQ6ak4J7vrVZdF0aU-khM-lBlyLCM7FTJxlk2IkzzLaUDs9sSKpEa5x-Gb6NSIya2tAqSOp164lu_kE0su-mSuZgwmXWy_UiAzZsMDNRI/w640-h504/20210724_002835+%25282%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Some more gorgeous stitching from Deb ...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeRZXP2MYPCzPcs6W40CHyTMaRgW3Y43Ezm8b7kfz0I5JbWl0CBCTqo45N4taxGoTtQBsDiuYdIfvAWJhzcLszDPbg_SydryEPsrTDalDdNnfdXEwtM5PBTPve8Xe6bo5t885AnnCViw8/s1541/20210826_153028+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1541" data-original-width="928" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeRZXP2MYPCzPcs6W40CHyTMaRgW3Y43Ezm8b7kfz0I5JbWl0CBCTqo45N4taxGoTtQBsDiuYdIfvAWJhzcLszDPbg_SydryEPsrTDalDdNnfdXEwtM5PBTPve8Xe6bo5t885AnnCViw8/w386-h640/20210826_153028+%25282%2529.jpg" width="386" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPilBE9Xkf4jRplhYwxrLPWLqFSB6ew4Ps-AhgDUo5TjomjVYcDVDqJkU23JVjRb09zPYtfQ1fs2BAqFr0oep0ZBbOQA8U70MqUwCFBpiU1sh4iZUQE5Ht0sHfsMeO4mevXhuv3ZvTI1Y/s2048/20210719_152946.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPilBE9Xkf4jRplhYwxrLPWLqFSB6ew4Ps-AhgDUo5TjomjVYcDVDqJkU23JVjRb09zPYtfQ1fs2BAqFr0oep0ZBbOQA8U70MqUwCFBpiU1sh4iZUQE5Ht0sHfsMeO4mevXhuv3ZvTI1Y/w640-h480/20210719_152946.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">I have been playing around with a couple of pieces - both of them things I started ages ago. First, something from the Experimental Textiles course where Traverse first met and it definitely needs a lot of work, specifically on the very flat background, which needs texture. The embellished felted pieces have copper either inlaid or on top so I've been experimenting.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Where shall I put the small copper circles and should they have a dark red (or maybe turquoise) border?</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLukpwBXPGkQhhVFEVxxYt9KEU5N5jqT85XqnqoTZRUAwibnx-lbsSf9ccStxLUt-3BVn1jLWkwAcrRIZTLTtNnsAjo59Adok-v-3nnR1X2U6UQERZUp9ao_dMvoQz8P8X162J2H7ZC0/s2048/20210826_143909.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1505" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLukpwBXPGkQhhVFEVxxYt9KEU5N5jqT85XqnqoTZRUAwibnx-lbsSf9ccStxLUt-3BVn1jLWkwAcrRIZTLTtNnsAjo59Adok-v-3nnR1X2U6UQERZUp9ao_dMvoQz8P8X162J2H7ZC0/w470-h640/20210826_143909.jpg" width="470" /></a></div><p>Maybe I'll move some copper from the bottom to the top.</p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQV5si24tPRNCKnH3yLY63d0H1EXhrbFXohG-H-pKoLhNf7y5JY0sau4Dh0TCVqYPjGDv6o5nGd1K_wY5S2i21ow97rXnUYjkD4bTr_-e0m-65Pq-p8C7BHu5mbWalxAviISecV02anI0/s2048/20210826_150705.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQV5si24tPRNCKnH3yLY63d0H1EXhrbFXohG-H-pKoLhNf7y5JY0sau4Dh0TCVqYPjGDv6o5nGd1K_wY5S2i21ow97rXnUYjkD4bTr_-e0m-65Pq-p8C7BHu5mbWalxAviISecV02anI0/w480-h640/20210826_150705.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><p>I think I've found some interesting texture for the background anyway!</p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK65sH5FQjWK2055ys5lVqvFCT2Ufl7gR-fJwLd10yGkLmNgeB-QTQTAlxwzO2zh4lZKY1pzNDpbyU51byrBZ_P4sxjh5-LH-OQb7Y9NhZ9_CmeTIIgY92KR7VML6Vj7mjhgbA5tga2LI/s2048/20210826_150639.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK65sH5FQjWK2055ys5lVqvFCT2Ufl7gR-fJwLd10yGkLmNgeB-QTQTAlxwzO2zh4lZKY1pzNDpbyU51byrBZ_P4sxjh5-LH-OQb7Y9NhZ9_CmeTIIgY92KR7VML6Vj7mjhgbA5tga2LI/w480-h640/20210826_150639.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><p>The second piece is much older - I began it on a workshop with Alysn Midgelow Marsden in 2014! I know I put it away because it was quite fiddly, working with Romeo soluble and tiny pieces of metal cloth but I didn't intend to leave it for quite so long! I love the texture created and also the heat patination on the three different metals - steel, bronze and copper. I'm trying to decide which orientation I prefer and was surprised at the difference it made when I rotated the following photograph taken in Deb's studio.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo3SqzSPzGV17pnUOTqzDODpUpu8cqMxX_vP6QBBg78Px0c4jCTmG2IFSACY3yAmAKZWL5ZtU9ZwzRq5oqrgDFOqStgETM0l7NdTdrCndnHGSysXQegODHCQfgRHve28fhFzZQxM3xEkk/s2048/20210826_171638+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1549" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo3SqzSPzGV17pnUOTqzDODpUpu8cqMxX_vP6QBBg78Px0c4jCTmG2IFSACY3yAmAKZWL5ZtU9ZwzRq5oqrgDFOqStgETM0l7NdTdrCndnHGSysXQegODHCQfgRHve28fhFzZQxM3xEkk/w485-h640/20210826_171638+%25282%2529.jpg" width="485" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZlWG1qggZYbRfdrM_uGcCfcP_6eHqYko5C-dlIC-MtimmxiE6VXXRKLIvbHVfshEVXUVFmC6zViF2kQoqs4EALqaCMvMMDn231KkMtcgnIiQwBhHtStZ4aKMjAZxWjGFnigQYwpICJGo/s2048/20210826_171638+%25283%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1549" data-original-width="2048" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZlWG1qggZYbRfdrM_uGcCfcP_6eHqYko5C-dlIC-MtimmxiE6VXXRKLIvbHVfshEVXUVFmC6zViF2kQoqs4EALqaCMvMMDn231KkMtcgnIiQwBhHtStZ4aKMjAZxWjGFnigQYwpICJGo/w640-h484/20210826_171638+%25283%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikCAyC2BuCmZ85ydwlWQmJnG7-suRaNU-OVr9Kv5b6UyUc58dE8kZFiqaymlLa8Vvkucm25gqdBaKv6kYfudpjOcjwimF_2Gou3TeSR7qN_VJvmfTHOcXw98N9FqCHTvQWGP4cVEOOiUk/s2048/20210826_171638+%25285%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1549" data-original-width="2048" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikCAyC2BuCmZ85ydwlWQmJnG7-suRaNU-OVr9Kv5b6UyUc58dE8kZFiqaymlLa8Vvkucm25gqdBaKv6kYfudpjOcjwimF_2Gou3TeSR7qN_VJvmfTHOcXw98N9FqCHTvQWGP4cVEOOiUk/w640-h484/20210826_171638+%25285%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMf5lRwwlhFQvc0-n9r1syck-Cf1Lc0JAThrZcG7KM4X9DhM3GoE8Elyz7DijQKPrDAGBJRt_LOqdMbEo66Y1AfQjyrEXbNgMxy1Jf_a6YfOjr0U_DkMXNfAsZ_ssRWUwB9ocZ9KIXUME/s2048/20210826_171638+%25284%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1549" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMf5lRwwlhFQvc0-n9r1syck-Cf1Lc0JAThrZcG7KM4X9DhM3GoE8Elyz7DijQKPrDAGBJRt_LOqdMbEo66Y1AfQjyrEXbNgMxy1Jf_a6YfOjr0U_DkMXNfAsZ_ssRWUwB9ocZ9KIXUME/w484-h640/20210826_171638+%25284%2529.jpg" width="484" /></a></div><br /></div><div>The sunlight coming in through Deb's window was creating some very interesting shadows that day and the way I look at it now makes quite a difference. A bit of a theme for me lately and I'm still not quite sure how it will end up but remembering my opening sentence - 'sometimes you just have to go for it, even if you're not sure what you're going to do'.</div><div><br /></div><div><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Cath</span></i></div>Cath Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04564139434627832433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6721268849312251564.post-22964290761830156232020-12-31T16:39:00.001+00:002020-12-31T16:46:47.273+00:00Times of endings<p>It's been an incredibly long time since the last blog post and I suddenly remembered that I usually write one at the turning of the year so here it is! I've been thinking about time this morning and how these strange times have unfolded and look likely to continue well into the New Year.</p><p>At first, way back in March, time became elastic and seemed to stretch out ahead of me and I imagined how I would use this time of enforced separation from my normal life to do all manner of creative projects - what a wonderful gift it might be! I could investigate new techniques, read all the many inspiring textile art books on my shelf and spend many happy hours upstairs in my room. But this was not to be.</p><p>I began well enough by finishing work I'd already started or planned for our 'Senses' exhibition, which we still hoped to show in the Autumn. My 'Ocean Drum' and the metal weavings, 'Moon' and 'Sun', have already been mentioned here in blogland, (<a href="https://www.traversetextileart.uk/2020/05/did-i-say-winds-of-change.html" target="_blank">Ocean drum in Winds of Change </a> and <a href="https://www.traversetextileart.uk/2020/07/lockdown-life.html" target="_blank">Sun and Moon in Lockdown Life</a>) as has my doing the 'Swirls of Colour' workshop with Isobel Moore (also in Lockdown Life), but after that I began to lose creative focus. It slowly became clear that we wouldn't be exhibiting anywhere in 2020 and exploring any new themes just didn't excite me.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEief08b0dXh0noCUfffjxLA4pCNpKihReCFKqcT6flKLDFgkCUzKOoe6yVkXlopU8M9na5aBHk1Upd6YG7-XwiF9azkCSZYJI23UuASODgUD1tw8JiQvuF7dr6DKu1ewe5uG4z3FQ3rseQ/w400-h400/20200219_193947+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ocean Drum - La Mer</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVCVdcFsMKR1j5WLQFfOnR2tfymxXh7qVVaNEHu6jG7F6px_8jFtwGF5OiGJoaLUsJSyGZra2b5aa5DsleF7kIN0W2SEx3VJXYCGHpgxdL1qVyxqW-cYzXzLdrm4ZPJSQMWtGlO9zXmKw/w400-h400/20200219_194111+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Round and Round the Garden<br />(Ocean Drum reverse)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1966" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUfYWEd7FA8u_9I85Ik57BlggAh9NBYHAQW8raKUriNCUvZnGfpZpk55O4kdK4pToX8pA9odxgKA-e-aUjOUKXmfkm5yEeFabsoE3bwXKdPErKu1VlNXexLtupReeSfq7nnON7zxSgKMI/w384-h400/20200327_130746.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="384" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moon</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBIVoHMi0hbqbmHibIbVpy88jtSkphiVzJTG7xCfFrNCbpIpnoHhF7rlilaxpK-e_wsnxaHTpyjQ3QlcEV2Km2HGtYCWraXVl4qlk0VtsWD5SVOtDmhPnIE-OUikyfEo-w-sGI2nsNV2U/w400-h400/20200516_083007.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sun</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhApeznGfliV0t-ZNYLc-x8_UFGTC16k8eXZeyhyphenhyphen46S8cXoV4BL9kBrIGxCoR5cdmgX9fCyAFaSznrzlTEa_RAFKxgiaOCnibRzwi9lQNcSfP4_y-oQyh55VwWUx4y5hIpZFoL55LgGoaY/s2048/20200731_161855.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhApeznGfliV0t-ZNYLc-x8_UFGTC16k8eXZeyhyphenhyphen46S8cXoV4BL9kBrIGxCoR5cdmgX9fCyAFaSznrzlTEa_RAFKxgiaOCnibRzwi9lQNcSfP4_y-oQyh55VwWUx4y5hIpZFoL55LgGoaY/w400-h400/20200731_161855.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finished Swirls of Colour piece - untitled as yet</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </div><p>I know from artists that I follow that I'm not alone in feeling like that - some have made great use of that elastic time to change direction or explore their work in greater depth, while others have felt like me. I questioned my belief in myself as an artist sometimes but thankfully those times were short and I reached a quiet acceptance that I needed to focus on other things in my life which fed my spirit - mainly singing, virtually on Zoom, with many people all over the world, which has given me great joy.</p><p>But this is a textile art blog so gladly I do have some other artworks to write about and they also followed what was emerging as my lockdown theme - finishing things. I found a small piece of embellished felt I'd started many moons ago, which needed some stitching and beads and so that soon came together, although it's unframed and untitled as yet (and the colour looks very odd in the second photo).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1586" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi3U2PUox2X5EXHCIiS6_uEUSnlCibCnUkD0rvoXPHYTYWxmEGXBExFg2E79-56uXCEMvbejhy_1kmp585043kaSccZLEZBKle5u58SDUdxF3qYS1YeUycqXXNjW45EjZlxDmnMv1XHqo/w496-h640/20201231_140301.jpg" width="496" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2047" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5KnKmXI5vDUXeTmEbNb4yN4qwv_X3ir7oaREHks9XffCszzuzFvISzzJWX0NO1Fq2mQ-s3URfSPXZeDoWG96_j-JJ4i4N_7uJ5HWNP4rMoGhkRaq8Wj-hmYnpbWuZGj5lxZOMsPMCkN8/w640-h640/20201231_140458.jpg" width="640" /></div><p><br /></p><p>I also finished another piece, which I started earlier using one of Maggie Grey's paint-resist techniques; this will be part of another exhibition, curated by Chris Gray, hopefully sometime next year. I was inspired by aboriginal dreamtime symbols and imagery for the central panel layered on felt and I was very pleased to find a piece of handmade paper, which I'd previously dyed on a workshop with Alysn Midgelow-Marsden, which worked well for the background. 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Maybe I needed to concentrate on the endings to make room for new beginnings and I'm hoping for changing times soon. The elastic 2020 time, stretching out far ahead, eventually seemed lost altogether, leading to a timeless quality of life for me and I'm hanging on to truly timeless themes of joy in nature, music, friendship and love.<div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>TS Eliot</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I'll be back with more news from Traverse in 2021 but till then we all wish you a very Happy New Year and hope to see you soon!</p><p><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Cath</span></i></p><p> </p></div>Cath Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04564139434627832433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6721268849312251564.post-47724451717744784532020-08-07T14:43:00.000+01:002020-08-07T14:43:51.804+01:00Navigating through life's complications<div style="text-align: left;">
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Cath Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04564139434627832433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6721268849312251564.post-50968151517455704342020-07-19T01:27:00.000+01:002020-07-19T01:27:11.526+01:00Lockdown LifeThese have been strange and paradoxical times: what began with turbulent change that turned my world upside down has now evolved into a strange feeling that every day is somehow the same and nothing ever changes. We are shielding and my life of singing, performing, exhibiting and textile art group meetings looks like it won't be returning to normal for the foreseeable future.<br />
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At Traverse, we have been keeping in touch with Zoom meetings, sharing our works in progress and wondering when we will be able to meet again. We have had confirmation that the Quilt and Stitch Village in Uttoxeter, who had re-scheduled for September, have now cancelled for 2020 altogether and the show will now be on April 16th - 18th, 2021. We have also heard on the grapevine just recently that the West Country Quilt & Textile Show in August has now been cancelled, although we still have no official confirmation of any new dates. We are awaiting news from Leicester's Big Textile Show in October but although lockdown is easing in general, it remains very unclear when it will be safe for such shows to re-open and we have assumed that it is unlikely.<br />
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However, we've continued our creative life in Lockdown in various ways, as would be expected as our diversity as a group is something we value as a strength. At times, the strangeness of the situation has led to a lack of creativity and a feeling of being 'stuck', creatively as well as literally. Then suddenly, a burst of energy or inspiration can come 'out of the blue' and lead you off down different paths to pastures new.<br />
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After putting the finishing touches to her stunning needle-felted 'Eye' ...<br />
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... Dia was led down a very different path by her granddaughter, who put in a special request early on for 'Luna Lapin' - who obviously needed a custom made, upholstered chair ...<br />
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Final touch, for when the weather changed, was a rather fabulous pink coat and scarf!<br />
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On the subject of making clothes, any of you who have read personal statements on our individual pages will have seen Deb describe herself as 'Dressmaker by day and Textile Artist by night'. Indeed, she has spent many months of hard work building up a business, <a href="https://debdaysewingroom.com/" target="_blank">DebDay Sewing Room</a>, sharing her considerable sewing and dressmaking skills by running classes for enthusiastic beginners, looking to gain knowledge and confidence in using a sewing machine. Lockdown inevitably had a serious effect on that and all workshops had to cease, so Deb was forced to take a different path, very much led by the pandemic and the effect it has had on our lives ... beginning with making face covers.<br />
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... and together with Vicki, she has been giving up her time and putting her dressmaking skills to excellent use by making scrubs for the local Scrub Hub, a voluntary community group, making scrubs to order for NHS staff.<br />
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Deb's personal statement also refers to her particular interest in using Textile Art to make 'unwearable' dresses, which have been a popular feature of all our exhibitions so far, leading to many comments along the lines of 'I'd love to wear that!' Her latest beautiful creation is continuing to take shape in the studio and I can't wait to see it finished.<br />
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Deb's also found time to add some more to this gorgeous piece of hand-dyed fabric with embroidered silk embellishments ...<br />
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Continuing to explore the possibilities of using fabric rather than my usual wool, felt, needle-felting techniques, I happened to see that Isobel Moore was looking for people to do a trial run of an online course, called 'Swirls of Colour' and was lucky enough to get a place. I'm really enjoying the challenge of using different techniques and the course is very well executed with lots of online support. I continued with my self-imposed challenge of trying to use more yellows and greens and so far have managed to avoid spirals, which was a little extra one I set myself! This is a work in progress shot ...<br />
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So, after that little peep into what we have been up to in Lockdown, I'll finish with the happy news that, as of 17th July, Deb has been able to re-open her Sewing Room and, as it's a very large studio in <a href="https://www.oldprintworks.org/" target="_blank">The Old Print Works</a>, she can continue her classes in a safe, socially distanced way, including a new one on Creative Embroidery.<br />
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Cath Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04564139434627832433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6721268849312251564.post-40133820114365645272020-05-27T16:51:00.000+01:002020-05-27T17:33:01.166+01:00Did I say 'Winds of Change'?My previous blog referred to winds of change blowing around Traverse and we really had no idea of what was coming or how far those winds would spread! Along with so many people all around the world, our day-to-day lives have changed dramatically - and we are still not sure of the true implications for Traverse's activities. So far, we have only had one show affected - the Quilt & Stitch Village, 17th - 19th April, at Uttoxeter Racecourse has been re-scheduled for 18th - 20th September, in the first instance. We don't know what is happening for the rest of our planned shows and we will wait to hear from them. As I write this, lockdown is slowly being loosened but there are still big questions regarding many aspects of 'normal' life.<br />
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I am just grateful not to have lost anyone to the pandemic and have tried to accept the changes with good grace - a life full of virtual choirs, gardening in the sun and possibly a bit too much baking, alongside my creative activities. I've been meaning to write about a piece I actually finished just before everything changed and have decided now is the time! It was conceived as part of our work on the theme of 'Senses', where I have focused on how sight and sound contribute to a sense of place.<br />
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It was inspired by the gardens of the South of France, and in particular one in Menton, where we spent a glorious afternoon exploring. We particularly wanted to see the waterlilies and seemed to go round and round through all the other areas, spiralling in towards the pool - the jewel in the centre.</div>
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I actually began work on it last October at a workshop with Alysn Midgelow-Marsden but I had prepared the fabric beforehand - kunin felt, transfer printed with a heat press. The design was another link back to the art of Southern France - a homage to Matisse's collage, 'The Snail'. I transfer-painted computer printer paper in a random way, remembering to note the colour as it always amazes me how they change when heated. The torn painted papers were arranged in a spiral and printed with the heat press, in several different layers, filling in the gaps with consecutive prints.</div>
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I intended to use my embellisher at the workshop to add loads of texture and also metal, wire and beads - but I came up against a problem with the embellisher. Although it has 12 needles, it proved very difficult to use on my prepared surface. I've successfully embellished kunin felt many times before so it seemed to be something to do with the heat process - the surface seemed to have melted slightly. I was a bit thrown by this but with perseverance, I found I could use a hand needle felting tool to add some yarn, wool and silk fibres.</div>
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In a classic example of 'design through process', my ideas changed significantly as I slowly worked my way outwards. I decided to keep much of the printed felt visible, rather than cover it up with texture as I'd originally planned. I decided against any more beads and wire, using only a few crescent shapes cut from metal coffee pods to give a different texture. I had a circle canvas, which I needed to use for my planned concept, so I outlined the exact size in a variegated running stitch before following the spiral and outlining some of the printed shapes with free motion stitch.</div>
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I wrapped the circular canvas and then added more running stitch through the canvas in selected shapes, which served to anchor the work securely. See wrapped canvas and close up of stitch details below <i>(apologies for slightly out of focus image on the left)</i>.<br />
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When I posted this on social media, I said that it was still not finished and some people wondered where I would take it from here ... and now I'll show you what happened next. My plan all along was to make an ocean drum - it seemed like the perfect evocation of beach walks, with the sound of the ocean and also the amazing shades of turquoise in the sea. One side would be a walk round the garden and the reverse would be a walk by the sea.</div>
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During the second half of Alysn's workshop, I began preparing how to show those colours and the translucence of the water.<i> </i>I made my own printing blocks based on a drawing of the shapes of the ripples in some of my photos of the sea on my holiday and then printed papers and also various stainless steel and copper fabrics with a variety of shades of blue and turquoise. Using soluble plastic film for stability, I cut some of the fabric and began stitching it together in wavy lines.</div>
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Back at home, after finishing the garden side, I used the printed paper to line the central well of the canvas, conveniently hiding the running stitches I'd used to anchor the felt and also giving a wonderful splash (!) of colour, especially after a few coats of acrylic wax.</div>
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After trialling the metal fabric to see how translucent it was, I decided to change the scrunched line of copper <i>(towards top of left hand picture) </i>to make it easier to see through to the painted paper beneath.</div>
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<i> </i>It was very difficult to photograph but this close up gives you some idea.</div>
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Feeling very pleased with the effect, I explored different sized beads to see which would roll easily and make the best sound. Trials in the open well of the canvas produced many spills and some interesting patterns on the kitchen floor as they bounced out and around! Then I stapled the metal fabric into place and turned my mind to how to hide the staples. I decided to make an embellished border, using yarns and stitch on bright turquoise felt.<br />
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I used double-sided extra strong carpet tape to stick it into position and slip stitched it invisibly to the kunin felt covering the edge of the canvas.<br />
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<br />Cath Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04564139434627832433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6721268849312251564.post-90839593578319930762020-03-04T15:44:00.000+00:002020-03-05T07:57:34.639+00:00Winds of ChangeThe winds of change have been blowing around Traverse recently and I'm not talking about the horrendous weather we have been experiencing, which thankfully now seems to have gone away. I'm sitting here looking out at blue skies, sunshine, early blossom and daffodils, which make me smile and remind me of one of my favourite songs I sang as a child at school, 'Glad That I Live Am I' (Lizette W. Rees, 1909). It was the chorus which came to me this morning:<br />
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I've always struggled with change - it pushes me out of my comfort zone and I like it there! However, maybe I need to accept change as an inevitable part of 'the way of life' and try to embrace it like the sun and the rain, as a force for good - which brings me to the reason for writing.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A new</span> season brings our new blog header, which reflects a major change for us - Becca and Bernice have made the decision to step away from Traverse to continue their creative life on separate paths. We will miss them and wish them all the very best, both personally and artistically.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Following on from my mentoring course last year, I have been giving a lot of thought to where I want to go with my work and how to achieve this. I'm also aware that Traverse is starting to think about the next body of new work and this has been another consideration in my decision. I have decided I want to take some time to explore my current theme of work further and to spend time working on developing my artistic voice and practice. As a result, I feel that the time has come for me to leave Traverse. I have really enjoyed my time within the group and wish all of you all the best for your future work together.</i></span></div>
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As some of you will know, Becca's work has great personal significance, based on her experiences of living with deafness - an invisible disability - and has been widely admired during our exhibitions last year. Her Traverse blogpost <a href="https://www.traversetextileart.uk/2019/04/making-invisible-visible.html" target="_blank">Making the Invisible Visible</a> describes her inspiration and the reaction to her work most eloquently. Alongside her administrative work within the group, helping a lot with social media, we will also miss that individual creative input and the extra dimension Becca's work brought to Traverse.</div>
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It is hard to list Bernice's contribution to Traverse in detail as there was so much she did behind the scenes. With us right from the beginning, when we sat eating curry and trying to decide on a name, she has been instrumental in so much, including setting up our social media, this website and covering many aspects of the organisation and paperwork. Her work rate is phenomenal and she always came to our meetings with several new pieces to share. We will miss the diversity her mixed media work gave to our exhibitions, the many beautiful books and her wonderful printed and stitched fabrics.<br />
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The Fab Four of Deb, Dia, Vicki and I are committed to carrying on as Traverse, embracing and making the most of the changes and, in Becca's words, 'working to keep Traverse a great group.' We have <a href="https://www.traversetextileart.uk/p/exhibitions.html" target="_blank">exhibitions</a> lined up for this year, which we are busily preparing for, following our theme of 'Senses'. More on that later but here's a sneak peek.</div>
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Some of you may remember my post about our collaboration with On The Surface at the West Country Quilt and Textile Show, entitled <a href="https://www.traversetextileart.uk/2019/08/please-touch.html" target="_blank">Please Touch</a>. It was very well received, although the idea of not being allowed to touch art was so ingrained in our visitors that we did have to give many people very strong encouragement to actually touch the pieces!<br />
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We are very pleased to be bringing a selection of our Please Touch work back to its inspirational home at Sense. the charity which supports deafblind people and those with complex disabilities, for whom the sense of touch is so important. You can read more about their work on their website <a href="https://www.sense.org.uk/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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The exhibition opens next week at <a href="https://www.touchbasepears.org.uk/" target="_blank">TouchBase Pears</a>, running from 3rd to 28th February, and we are really looking forward to sharing our work there. Inspired by Sense, these pieces were designed specifically to be
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Layered synthetics, stitched, heat-treated, mounted on cotton duck & painted white</td></tr>
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Vessel, wet felted with resists and simple hand stitch</td></tr>
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If you are anywhere near Selly Oak, Birmingham, in the next few weeks, please pop in to TouchBase Pears to see our work - you could also check out the Hive Cafe!<br />
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<i>Cath</i>Cath Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04564139434627832433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6721268849312251564.post-34751115977495498172019-12-31T11:42:00.000+00:002019-12-31T11:42:20.926+00:00Looking backThis time last year I wrote a blog, looking back on some workshops I'd attended and various unfinished pieces I needed to work on in the New Year ... and unsurprisingly, I have to admit that several of them are still waiting! This year my thoughts have turned not to the unfinished but the finished - our Revealed exhibition, which we really enjoyed sharing with the many people we met in 2019.<br />
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I'm in the middle of upd<span style="font-family: inherit;">ati</span>ng our <a href="https://www.traversetextileart.uk/p/test-gallery.html" target="_blank">Gallery</a> page and looking back and remembering the reactions and various conversations we had with visitors about our work. So, I thought I'd share some of my memories of our year here. <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Our exhibition, 'Revealed', explored our individual approaches to the idea of what is seen or unseen, using unconventional viewpoints, revealing various hidden layers - in the physical world, in our emotional landscapes and also in our work itself. As always, we came up with a variety of ideas.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some of our work came from a very personal perspective - most notably, Becca's work relating to her deafness and the response to them was very positive, particularly from the deaf community. Becca has written her own post <a href="https://www.traversetextileart.uk/2019/04/making-invisible-visible.html" target="_blank">here</a> eloquently describing her feelings and the various conversations she had. I just remember the smiles and excited faces of the members of the deaf community I met, as I pointed out the inspiration behind the work - leading to the following comment in our book, <i>'Very impressive work - from deaf fellows'.</i></span></span><br />
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Bernice was also inspired by a personal accident for the following machine-stitched piece 'Hidden Support', described here in her own words: <i><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A personal journey about my breaking my fingers in 2018. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit;">The base of the piece is made from the two muslin slings I was given. I kept a photo diary of my treatment and recovery and most of these photos were printed out on cotton fabric. The top layer is made from the hospital appointment letters. The tags show the dates of the appointments up to December 31st.</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Visitors were fascinated to learn of the story behind both this and also the following piece. I saw many a smile on the faces of people, reading the label for 'My Mother Said' and pointing it out to their friends. The label said: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>On the first layer I wrote about my mother disapproving of even a bra strap showing, unlike now when almost anything goes!</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">As the following comment shows, some people were very interested to find out the stories behind our work: <i>'An amazing display of work and so interesting to hear the background of some of the exhibitors'.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Vicki also found inspiration in the human body and biological structure, here exploring hidden vulnerability and disease. This wonderful, delicate stitching showed the fragility of osteoporosis.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The inspiration for this was of great interest to some, maybe with personal experience of the disease, and some commented how good it was to have a common theme running through an artist's work. However, it was interesting to listen to other conversations about this piece as it was clear that it wasn't necessary to know the inspiration behind it to appreciate the work, as is also often the case. It's seen here displayed as it was on a wonderful glass head ...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Deb's fabulous 'unwearable' dress was also very popular, with many people commenting on the wonderful texture she has created on the surface. The general consensus was that it was definitely wearable - someone wrote the following in our book:<i> 'Green outfit absolutely beautiful. Could definitely be wearable. So beautiful and so clever to be able to have the foresight'.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In some cases, a personal response to the work came from a shared experience with a visitor, which was the case with these wonderful needle felted landscapes from Dia. They grew out of her recent holiday in Namibia ...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">... and 'Deadvlei' in particular brought back very happy memories of a very special place for one visitor, who talked excitedly with Dia about the work for some time. She had lived in Namibia for many years and wrote in our book: <i>'Beautiful work. Such skills ... and the picture of Deadvlei, Namibia is a treasure!'</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Several of us chose to use wet-felting with resists techniques for 'Revealed', as these close-ups show.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">In 'Spiral Space', </span><span style="background-color: white;">I challenged myself to do a large spiral resist and it ended up being the largest piece of wet felting I've ever done - physically, quite hard work and definitely a challenge! However, I was very pleased with it and had many conversations about how I had worked it and the various methods I had to use to make the spiral stand up.</span><br />
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Wet felted with spiral resist, yarn, threads and pre-felted shapes, hand & machine stitch</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Another of my wet-felted resist pieces which drew comments was 3D - the vessel, 'Rainbow Totem'. This had multi-layered resists and one of my favourite colour combinations - orange, red and turquoise. After I'd pointed out 'Spiral Space' to one visitor as wet-felting with a resist, she</span><span style="background-color: white;"> rushed instead towards the vessel,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> saying, 'Ooh, I like the spiral, but I lo-o-o-ve this!'</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">This also had some nuno-felted areas and so combined felting techniques, learned on separate workshops with two inspirational felters, Caroline Merrell and Clare Bullock. The joy of learning new techniques and sharing ideas within the textile art community is important to me and also a very special part of my reason for doing exhibitions. I hope that sharing our work, as we do, also plays a small part in inspiring others - which is why this is possibly my favourite comment of all written in our book this year: '<i>Thanks for your information and inspiration. I am going to have a go!'</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">So, we say goodbye to 2019 and 'Revealed' and look forward to next year, where our theme will be 'Senses'. I'll close with one more close-up image of my 'Starshine' lampcover, also inspired by another wonderful tutor, Alysn Midgelow-Marsden, which drew this comment in our book:<i> 'Starshine is spectacular! Magical!'</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">It brings spectacular and magical 'Happy New Year' wishes to you all with love and thanks from all of us here at Traverse.</span><br />
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Cath Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04564139434627832433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6721268849312251564.post-85747287706402099542019-10-10T03:30:00.000+01:002019-10-14T14:31:47.049+01:00Q&A with Dia<span style="background-color: white;">For our fourth Q&A session, I'm going to speak with Dia - Dia is one of the founding members of Traverse and her gorgeous work is often posted on the group's Instagram.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white;">Who are you?</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">I'm Dia, I've always liked being creative, even from a young age, enjoying sewing, knitting and hand embroidery. I became very interested in Modern Art as a teenager.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white;">How did you get into textiles?</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">After retirement, I reconnected with my creativity and decided to investigate other media to increase my skills. I like strong colours, shapes and abstract images. My current work, exploring different media, reflects that, as well as my early interest in Modern Art</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white;">What are your creative influences and What or who inspired you?</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">My secondary school art teacher inspired me and introduced me to modern art.
I started to look at Modern Art and liked the paintings and styles of Karel Appel, Piet Mondrian, Marc Chagall and Franz Marc.
In the sixties, Finnish art and design influenced my art.
As a 15 year old I was inspired by the Franz Marc horse painting and printed my version using a template of a horse.
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<b>What inspires your work? </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">What I hear and see around me.
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<span style="background-color: white;">This vessel is my first textile piece I made at an embroidery group and it encouraged me to explore textiles further.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">At the moment, I am exploring Embellishing, Needle-felting and Wet-felting techniques.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I visited Sossusvlei Namibia on holiday and the vibrant colours of blue sky, orange sand dunes and brown dead trees inspired me to needle felt this picture.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white;">How did find your creative style?</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I am still developing a creative style and am learning new skills and techniques by doing workshops.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white;">Describe your style in 5 words</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Colours</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Shapes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Abstract</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Slow</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white;">What do you do if you hit a creative block? </b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">When I have creative block, I leave my work until the answer comes to me on how to proceed.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white;">Do you dabble in any other crafts/art?</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">I enjoy flower arranging.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Dia</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Thank you Dia, it's been great to find out more about you. </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Becca </b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6721268849312251564.post-80350155050305682402019-09-19T16:23:00.002+01:002019-09-19T16:23:41.560+01:00West Country Quilt & Textile ShowThis is the <a href="http://www.traversetextileart.uk/2018/09/west-country-quilt-textile-show.html">second time</a> we have exhibited at the West Country Quilt & Textile Show. It is one of our favourite venues. It is a conference centre and has excellent lighting. Better still, it has an amazing atmosphere.<br />
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This year we shared a stand with On The Surface. We each had a wall for our own exhibition and a wall between us for our joint exhibition Please Touch.<br />
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Cath, Becca and Deb were ready and waiting to greet the many visitors to our stand.<br />
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Cath demonstrated needlefelting on the Embellisher whilst Dia used a needle and brush.<br />
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It was so great to see the number of visitors who were interested in our work.<br />
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Here's part of our Please Touch exhibition - this photo mainly showing Becca's work about deafness.<br />
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And on the table more pieces for people to touch. Some people found it really difficult to touch pieces. They are so used to exhibitions having Do Not Touch notices - but that was the whole point of our exhibition. We had made pieces deliberately for people to touch. The idea was suggested by Deb Day who worked with Sense, a charity supporting deafblind people and those with complex disabilities, helping them communicate and experience the world. <br />
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We also exhibited our Revealed work. Becca's work on sounds and deafness hung above Bernice's piece about her broken fingers.<br />
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We tend to hang our exhibitions by colour rather than artist. Although some of us have a particular colour palette we work with so our work may be hung altogether. Deb made the spectacular green dress called Gaia.<br />
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Deb had also made this beautiful dress which stood alongside Cath's felted spiral at the edge of our gallery and attracted the visitors in.<br />
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Look at these lovely fibres waiting to be packed!<br />
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Thanks to Vicki for making this mountain of rice bags to use as felting mats!<br />
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When we shared our ideas with the show organisers, they came up with the title 'Funky Felted Abstract' and we quite liked it so it stuck! We will be needle-felting a square of individual abstract design to decorate the cover of a 6 inch square sketchbook, using a variety of fibres, threads and textured yarns with added simple embroidery. Here are some of the samples we made with different colourways.<br />
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... and here are some finished and stuck onto the sketchbooks.<br />
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We will be running the workshop daily at 12.30 and demonstrating needle-felting techniques on our stand at the show. In the mornings, we'll be using some of the beautiful fibres and yarns to show how we made the workshop samples and in the afternoons, we'll be using the Janome embellisher in various ways, as usual. If you are planning on coming to the show, we'd love to see you for a chat about our work.<br />
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We're heading off to Bristol tomorrow to set everything up ready for Thursday. Looking forward to it ...<br />
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The West Country Quilt & Textile Show is now just a week away and we are really looking forward to it. This year, for the first time, we will be sharing a larger stand (G48) with our friends at On The Surface. Alongside our current exhibition, Revealed, we will be collaborating with them in a collection of work, entitled 'Please Touch', where visitors will be actively encouraged to explore it by touching. This was suggested by Deb, one of our members, who has worked for a long time with Sense, a charity supporting deafblind people and people with complex disabilities, helping them communicate and experience the world.</div>
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As you can see below, we have come up with some very different approaches to the idea:<br />
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Deb has woven a varied collection of fabrics, yarns and threads to make a beautiful bag, lined with silk and decorated with dangling beads - just fabulous.<br />
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Bernice just loves hand printing wonderful fabric and here she has done exactly that, after making her own printing block, shown below. She is piecing it together with some more of her amazing hand printed stash to make a wall hanging. There are plans to sew on some added extras, which will make it very interesting to touch. Can you guess what they might be?<br />
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Dia's first piece may look familiar as it has been featured in our other social media - it is a sculptural felt with metal inclusions, which she made during a workshop with Caroline Merrell at the the Felt Foundry. Unusually for Dia, who often works in bright colours, this is wet felted with Piiku Finn wool fibres in a soft grey colour, which contrasts well with the shiny surface of the metal.<br />
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Dia has returned to one of her brighter colour combinations here, wrapping a canvas with thick wool yarn and attaching some coffee pods, which will be fun to play with!</div>
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Becca is continuing her personal exploration of deafness with three stitched pieces in simple black and white but the work is anything but simple. Showing the incorporation of braille to link with this 'Please Touch' exhibition, these photos are of complex work in progress.</div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Vicki</span><br />
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One aspect of Vicki's work for this exhibition has been making some wonderfully tactile needle felted balls, as yet untitled which are also in black and white and decorated with tiny beads. They will possibly be displayed, hidden in a container, enticing you to feel inside.<br />
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Vicki has also been exploring ideas around consent with the following wall hangings of sculptural felt, also in muted colours with texture created by the felt manipulation and beautiful stitching. More work in progress, with a provisional title of Acquiescence ...</div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Cath</span><br />
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This last work of Vicki's reminded me of a vessel I had, lying somewhere in a container of its own, with the stitching half finished and I've resurrected it to become part of Please Touch.<br />
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Another older piece of my work has been featured <a href="https://www.traversetextileart.uk/2018/07/challenge.html" target="_blank">here</a> on the blog last year with details of how it was made. Painted, printed and stitched woven card, it was part of a Summer Challenge for my local Embroiderers' Guild and had never been exhibited, so I only had to mount it on a painted canvas and protect it with acrylic wax.<br />
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My final piece has also been glimpsed before on our social media but not in its finished form. I have always been fascinated by 3d mathematical forms and have enjoyed attempting simple fabric origami. I was reminded of this particular kaleidocycle form by the triangles of Bernice's folding book, 'The Road Not Taken', and after spending some time deciding how many triangular sections I wanted, I chose this simple version and set about making the felt for the triangles with my embellisher. After machine stitching, I cut out the triangles, added some hand stitch and beads and assembled the piece, waiting with bated breath to test whether it worked ...</div>
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If you're coming to the West Country Quilt and Textile Show next week, please feel free to come and explore these exhibits and more from Traverse's collaboration with On The Surface. On Stand G48, we are also showing our 2019 exhibition, 'Revealed' and would love to see you there.</div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Hi, I am Becca. I’m married to Terry and we have two teenage boys. I've stitched and crafted all my life; being creative has always been an important part of who I am and it allows me the time to tune out from the world and just focus on 'being'. This became very important in 2009 when after several years of ill-health, I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue. My children were just 5 & 7 years old at the time of diagnosis and instead of going back to work as my youngest started primary school, I found myself confined to the sofa trying to rest up enough in order to collect my children from school and do all the other things a parent does. It became important to find a way to make a life around my health issues, one that would allow me to cope with symptoms, flare ups and rest as needed and for me, art was that life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">At the moment, with invisible disability and illness being a focus of my work, these 5 words seem to pop up most often. I'm looking at the emotions that come from coping or dealing with an invisible part of me. I have many layers (as do we all) and I want to reveal, to make visible these layers to try and make what I and many other people are going through visible and more understood and accepted by those who haven't been through the difficulties that these conditions can cause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">I'm a 'child in a sweet shop' with techniques but if I really <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really</i> have to pick a </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222;">favourite</span><span style="color: #222222;">, I can narrow it down to two - using water-soluble fabric with machine stitch and using Lutradur with paint, machine stitch and heat to alter the surface and create texture. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">Fabric and thread form part of the mediums I use but I really enjoy including more unusual materials such as fruit nets or cassette tape and working with materials that originally came from other industries such as Lutradur, Tyvek and even dissolvable fabrics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">I'm not sure I have totally found my style yet! As I said above, I'm like a child in a sweet shop when it comes to new techniques and methods, I always want to try something new! But over the last 18 months or so, I've been taking a couple of courses with Amarjeet Nandhra at the Windsor School of Textile Art and with Amarjeet's support, I'm slowly starting to find and develop my own style.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">I've explored many different crafts - scrapbooking, paper crafts, glass painting, lace making, macramé to name but a few. I can honestly say knitting and crochet are not crafts for me - I end up with so many added and dropped stitches as I go that the piece just looks </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222;">unrecognisable</span><span style="color: #222222;">! I also love creating upcycled one off pieces for my home with scrap wood but I think my husband might say those are more joint projects!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">"Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented – which is what fear and anxiety do to a person – into something whole" - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Louise Bourgeois<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">"Art is not always about pretty things. It's about who we are, what happened to us and how our lives are affected" - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elizabeth Broun<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6721268849312251564.post-74874920889865981452019-07-15T03:30:00.000+01:002019-07-15T08:58:16.557+01:00Q&A with BerniceFor our second q<span style="font-family: inherit;">uestion and answer session, I am going to speak to Bernice - Bernice is one of the founding members of Traverse, she is also one of the main posters on the Traverse blog and, has her own blog (link below) so if you are familiar with our blog, then you will know Bernice but, let's find out more:</span><br />
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<b><br /></b><b>Can you tell us about you?</b><br />
I have been married to Roger for 36 years and we have one son. He and his wife and children live in Sydney, Australia. After working as a teacher I spent 13 years as a Church Administrator and 18 months as an office manager for a friend's electrical company before properly retiring in 2011.<br />
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<b>How did you get into textiles? </b><br />
I took ill health retirement from teaching when I was 43 and was introduced to textile classes by my neighbour. She told me about City & Guilds Creative Embroidery and I spent 4 years doing parts 1 & 2. I stopped doing textiles for a while and came back several years later by way of scrapbooking and art journaling. I am a compulsive workshop collector and have done far too many to list. They are mostly technique workshops, so I know a lot of techniques but rarely spend time developing them into something that is me.<br />
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<b>What inspires your work?</b><br />
Anything and everything!<br />
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Currently my work is based on the theme for the next Traverse exhibition or the Art Textile Group I belong to at Littleheath Barn Studio. I work better with themes and with deadlines.<br />
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I am also taking a Master Practitioner course with the School of Stitched Textiles. Currently I'm working on the 2nd module of three. You can follow my progress with this on my blog: <a href="https://www.newlycreative.com/">Newly Creative</a>. My completed module 1 piece is part of the current Traverse exhibition - Revealed.<br />
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I love mixed media but I am still trying to work out how to use the techniques I use in art journaling in textiles. <br />
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I really like Breakdown Printing and spent 5 days with Leslie Morgan at Committed to Cloth last year learning the technique. I am attending 2 Leah Higgins courses later in the year to develop this technique more.<br />
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I am still trying to find it. Recently someone said my work looked pared down and edited. I’m hoping that was a compliment! I keep going to workshops in the hopes I’ll find something that will become my style. <br />
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I think about the theme a lot and quite often do a mind map (or whatever it’s called these days) to see what ideas I have. And then I just jump in. I rarely do samples and I let the fabric or media tell me where it wants to go. I do a lot of thinking on the way. I ask myself ‘what if I did this or that?’ and work out what would happen in my head rather than through samples. <br />
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<b>What do you do if you hit a creative block?</b><br />
I walk away. I read or watch television. I’ve given up Pinterest because although there are lots of ideas I feel I can’t match up to what I see there. I know that is daft as my work is well done but I tend to think if someone has made a piece that they have said all there is to say. And yet I know that’s not true as what I have to say will be different. Perhaps these thoughts are what cause the creative block!<br />
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I’ve only just found this quote but I think it describes how I work to a T.<br />
Jasper Johns: ‘Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that.’<br />
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My other favourite quote and one to live by is from John Wesley:<br />
‘Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.’<br />
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<b>Thank you Bernice, it has been good to find out more about you and your work. Our next Q&A piece will be with myself!</b><br />
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I attended a <a href="https://gilliantravis.co.uk/">Gillian Travis</a> workshop where we worked on counterchange. This is where you cut out shapes - in this example circles in paper squares - and exchange them so that the colours are in different places. I continued with the large heart and then the small heart.<br />
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Working in fabric I only changed one heart with another but started with several different coloured squares.<br />
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In this version there were three different pear shapes.<br />
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Another way to play with design is to take a shape and cut into it and expand it.<br />
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In the examples above the shapes cut out were glued down on the outside of the original shape. In the example below the rectangle was cut into different shapes and glued down with different intervals to expand the shape.<br />
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You can see the quilts made by Claire Higgott using this method on her <a href="http://www.clairehiggott.co.uk/">website</a>. Click on Split Shapes in her Portfolio.<br />
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You can take part of a photograph or part of your own drawing and make a physical stamp or digital stamp and produce various patterns.<br />
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This can lead to a piece of stitched textile.<br />
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I went on a Jean Draper workshop where we drew a small object and then expanded it on a photocopier. This can inform structures, work on paper and fabric. I wrote about this on my <a href="https://www.newlycreative.com/2019/05/jean-draper.html">blog</a>.<br />
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Not all inspiration has to be visual. You could use a poem or a piece of music to inspire your work. Earlier this year I used the poem 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost to produce a <a href="https://www.newlycreative.com/2019/03/and-its-finished.html">concertina book</a>. My starting point was the text and unusually for me through various stages of the design process I ended up with this:<br />
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Of course, there's always just letting the fabric 'speak' to you and coming up with a piece of work that results from playing with ideas without planning. Just go with the flow and see where it takes you.<br />
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Some of my Venice pieces came from playing. I printed with stamps and thermofax screens randomly on a large piece of cotton using thickened dyes and fabric paints.<br />
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I played again with stencils and screens to make a further piece of fabric which eventually became this set of 9 Venice Tiles.<br />
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Lots of textile artists use sketchbooks and workbooks, experiment and make samples, I tend to think. Instead of making several samples I think through what each once might be, ask the 'what if ...' questions and then disregard the ideas. I might write a list of all the possibilities so that I have the capacity to think through each option - rather than hold the list in my head. Maybe I miss out on some ideas by not doing samples. I don't know. What I do know, is that I produce pieces that work for me and really that's all that counts.<br />
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<span class="" style="font-family: inherit;">Hi, it's Becca here. I've been looking back at the past Traverse blog posts and realised that besides my <a href="https://www.traversetextileart.uk/2018/06/hello.html" target="_blank">intro post</a> in June 2018, there has been no post introducing any of the other members! We have a new member to the group and it seemed a really good opportunity to firstly introduce Vicki but also to do a post on every member of the group! So over the next few months, I will post a Question and Answer session with one of Traverse's members.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m Vicki. I'm trying to navigate through life’s complications whilst dipping into my accumulation of years worth of materials to make things. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As a child during the 1970’s, I attended what was quite a progressive primary school, where creativity was vastly important. We learned to sew - hand and machine, worked with clay, and looked at an array of creative practices. My home life also had an emphasis on making, traditional skills and thinking outside of the box in terms of gender roles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ooooo, where to start! Quite frequently anatomy features as starting point for any work I’m making, disease and mortality. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Cliché</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> to say Frida Kahlo but a definite influence there, but honestly, it’s a large sphere of influence including a variety of media. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Thank you Vicki, it has been great to find out more about you and your work! Our next Q&A post will be with Bernice.</b></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6721268849312251564.post-85627394654986069172019-04-17T20:51:00.001+01:002019-04-17T22:10:22.162+01:00Making the Invisible Visible<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; text-align: justify;">The Quilt and Stitch Show at Uttoxeter Racecourse was
my first exhibition with Traverse but also my first exhibition with my current
theme of work 'Making the Invisible Visible'. 'Making the Invisible Visible' is
informed by my own experiences of invisible disability and chronic illness and
as part of Traverse's theme 'Revealed', I have been keen to show, or reveal, the
emotions behind the facade that many people with invisible disability and
chronic illness develop.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Traverse's stand at The Quilt and Stitch Show, Uttoxeter. April 2019.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1d2228; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">For those of you who don't know me, I'm profoundly
deaf, not that you would know unless I told you. For me, it truly is an
invisible disability and throughout my life, like many deaf people, I have
faced comments such as "You don't look deaf"; "You are not as
deaf as you pretend to be"; "You use your deafness as an
excuse"; "Can you hear me?" said in either an exaggerated way
which is totally useless if you lip read as it alters the lip pattern you are trying to follow or as a whisper behind their hand as they try to 'catch' me
out. I could go on, I have many examples. The majority were not funny the first
time I heard them, most make me feel very embarrassed and some are truly
hurtful.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2228; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">But the worst thing?</span><br />
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people like myself who have been deaf (of varying levels) since birth or people
who have had a hearing loss later on in life have faced these comments. And
every deaf person and every person who has an invisible disability or chronic
health condition (of which I also have with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue)
who face this lack of understanding and support, put on a 'face', that is a
face they hide behind, an "I'm fine" face that they face the outside
world with to try to minimise any vulnerabilities shown to those who don't
understand.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'The Hidden Face'</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1d2228; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Using my own experiences and those of various people I have spoken
with, I wanted to try and show the emotions behind the facade, the struggle
that deaf people (and anyone with an invisible disability or chronic illness)
face every day and reveal how different levels of hearing loss affect what we
can hear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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response from the other members of Traverse and a handful of other artists
about the work I was creating, I wasn't entirely sure how complete strangers
would react and The Quilt & Stitch Show was kind of nerve wracking for that
reason! Every artist, whatever media they use, faces worries about how others
will perceive their work and worries about whether their work is truly good
enough. But I was also wondering if what I was trying to convey would be
understood by those viewing my work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Traverse stand and it proved to be a very interesting day - for all of us
as we all received lots of nice comments and support from visitors - but
especially for me as I met several people who expressed their interest in my
work. Three such visitors really stick in my memory of the day:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hearing loss and he instantly 'got' what I was trying to convey - both from the
statements that people say and from the difficulties faced with hearing loss in
a hearing world. We did what seems to be a typical topic of conversation
whenever I meet someone with hearing loss - have a good discussion over the
difficulties of trying to hear in different situations, what different hearing
aids are like and how hard it is to cope with people who don't understand that
different situations affect how well you can hear and follow what is going on -
I suspect some of this typical conversation comes from the fact I was an
audiologist pre-children and have an inbuilt nature to want to help those I
meet rather than a totally typical fellow “deafie” conversation but there is a
bit of that too!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jane Murdock, who is studying with the Open College of Arts and is also a
fellow “deafie”, invisible disability and chronic illness warrior. Jane has written
a blog post as part of her OCA research looking into how disability or chronic
illness is portrayed in art and has included my work from the exhibition in her
post. Jane understood instantly what I was trying to convey with the use of
text in my Hidden Deafness series, a series of 3 panels based on the levels of
hearing I not only experience each day but have experienced throughout my life.</span><br />
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and much more so with hearing loss. Sound can be misheard, can be muddled or
even just not heard at all and this leads to frustration, exhaustion, hurt and loneliness.
The text was a piece of writing I wrote to try and convey in words the
difficulties of being deaf and in each piece I distressed the writing and the
stitching (which represents sound waves) to reflect the level of hearing loss
being depicted and therefore, how much I could hear and understand of what was
said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2228;">My piece “Making the Invisible Visible” tries to show
the hidden layers we have behind the perfect yet imperfect, strong yet fragile façade
to show the frustration and irritation we feel when in contact with those who
don’t understand the struggles we are facing. Jane could really relate to the
feelings being expressed and felt so enthused by my work that she could see
ways she could take her own work further and also as part of her OCA course,
continued to explore how artists through history have portrayed chronic illness
or disability in their art. You can find Jane’s blog post </span><a href="https://janemurdockcontemporarycontextoca.wordpress.com/2019/04/14/how-is-chronic-illness-or-disability-portrayed-in-art/" target="_blank">here</a><u style="color: #1d2228;">.</u></div>
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moved by the subject matter. Deafness isn't something that comes up in art, let
alone textile art very often so it was quite a surprise to them to find
something that was so relevant to them - the worries, the difficulties and the
frustration that occurs every day.</span><br />
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as their first language was British Sign Language and mine is English – <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>despite the common thought that deaf people
can’t speak and can only sign, I was actually brought up using oral language/spoken
English so I speak but sign very little (something I am working on improving).
But we did our best and following “the conversation” (as mentioned above) we
discovered that we actually live very close by, in fact one of the ladies lives
only 5 minutes away, not a connection I expected to make from a small show in
the Midlands!</span><br />
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I liked the colours I had used with this first piece. It was only meant to be a sample. The original piece of felt I thought was two big so I had cut it into two thirds and a third whilst we were at the workshop. This is the two thirds piece.<br />
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I didn't think either piece worked so when I got home I cut up both pieces into smaller pieces. Of course I could have left it as a sample but decided I'd rather make it into something.<br />
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I tried various ways of reassembling the bits.<br />
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I stitched on each piece separately and added gold acrylic paint.<br />
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I put the pieces together and sewed them to make this whole textile called Piece by Piece 1<br />
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These were the two pieces I made on the second day of the workshop. And I didn't like them. Especially the one on the right that looked like it was an African or Aboriginal mask.<br />
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So you surely know what is coming next! Yes. I cut them both up.<br />
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Then I experimented with the reassembly until I came up with something I liked. Some of the pieces were very thick but by needlefelting them I managed to get them thinner.<br />
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I stitched on the pieces and sewed the pieces together. I added copper acrylic paint. This one is called Piece by Piece 2.<br />
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If you come to our exhibition at the <a href="https://quiltandstitchvillage.com/">British Quilt and Stitch Village</a> from April 12th-14th you can see whether these pieces stayed like this or whether I was tempted by more stitching or more cutting up!<br />
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We returned the following day, having some ideas of what elements we wanted to include but still very much prepared for the part serendipity might play.<br />
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<i>As in Part 1, I'm grateful to Bernice (BH), Caroline (CM) and Deb (DD) for extra images.</i><br />
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Bernice produced several pieces and again documented the process well.<br />
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Experimenting with the orientation.<br />
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Adding surface decoration<br />
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A different kind of resist<br />
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Deb also tried this type of double resist ...<br />
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... with a beautiful result as she began to cut into it later.<br />
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My piece using a similar double resist has a border of nuno felted recycled silk chiffon but it was still awaiting the scissors here ...<br />
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... but I did spend a lot of time thinking about the layers on this next piece!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My clothes don't always match my work but it does happen quite often! <i>(CM)</i></td></tr>
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Unfortunately, I was so engrossed thinking about the layers that I forgot to take many photos of the different stages of this but I began with a layer of purple needle-felted pre-felt, adding a copper shim circle, which I'd marked in a spiral with a 'dead' biro.<br />
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After adding more layers, including glass beads, more copper shapes and another resist over the copper spiral, I also used some of the purple pre-felt as added decoration on the top layer, along with some dyed Blue Faced Leicester curls.<br />
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Here come the scissors ...<br />
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I was very pleased with it at this stage and resolved to cut into it more at home.<br />
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Deb's next piece had several resists in the different layers ...<br />
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... with added delicate surface decoration.<br />
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Cutting into the layers to remove the resists<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of the above after Deb has begun to cut into the felt <i>(CM)</i></td></tr>
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We were all inspired to continue working on our pieces at home. Deb made a fabulous new piece using the same techniques ...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail <i>(DD)</i></td></tr>
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I finished cutting into my rainbow copper spiral piece, concentrating on the purple pre-felt in the bottom corner ...<br />
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Then, look what happened when I started cutting into my double resist piece with nuno-felted strips!<br />
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Still work in progress but, when I bent it in my hands to see more clearly what colour was under the turquoise, it became decidedly 3d and will probably be a vessel. Did I mention Serendipity?<br />
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Come and see us in Uttoxeter at <a href="https://quiltandstitchvillage.com/" target="_blank">Quilt & Stitch Village</a> (12th - 14th April) to see this and more of our work in Traverse's new exhibition for 2019, 'Revealed'. We'd love to see you there.<br />
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We thoroughly enjoyed our two days at the Felt Foundry with <a href="https://www.carolinemerrellfeltmaker.co.uk/" target="_blank">Caroline</a> and came away with many new ideas and techniques to explore. Bernice is writing a separate blog about what happened next with her work. Watch this space for Part 3 - coming soon ...<br />
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Last week, I spent a weekend with Deb and Bernice on a wonderful workshop with <a href="https://www.carolinemerrellfeltmaker.co.uk/" target="_blank">Caroline Merrell</a> at The Felt Foundry in Bishop's Frome. We all had some prior experience of wet felting but it was those magical words - Mixed Media - in the title that particularly attracted us to this workshop. The idea of mixing metal, glass and other inclusions within the felt, then possibly adding paint, sounded really interesting and Caroline's work looked amazing.<br />
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<i>Thanks to Caroline (CM), Bernice (BH) & Deb (DD) for many of the images in this post.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">by Caroline<i> (CM)</i></td></tr>
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The Felt Foundry was a beautiful workspace with some wonderful resources ...<br />
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including goody bags for us all - not forgetting coffee, tea, a wide variety of biscuits and scrumptious home-made cake!<br />
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Moving swiftly on to the actual work (!) ...<br />
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Essentially, this will be a picture blog, without necessarily going into great detail about the processes and it may not be strictly in order. However, I will try to show the evolution of some of our pieces and maybe some idea of our creative processes.<br />
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Caroline began by demonstrating how to make different types of felt inclusions, which can be attached on the surface or buried underneath the felt - basically tubes, braids (thin and thick) and felt balls.<br />
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More from Caroline's demonstration - rolling braids of different thickness ...<br />
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We built up small felt balls with several layers and rolled them in our hands before cutting them in half in preparation for burying them in our felt sample pieces.<br />
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Bernice was very organised and took several sequences of photos following the progress of her pieces.</div>
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At this stage, Bernice decided to cut this piece into two and she continued to work on the larger of the two.</div>
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The following photos show the sequence of cutting into the felt.</div>
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This is my sample ...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I changed the braid into a spiral before adding the tube, more inclusions and 'spikes' <i>(BH)</i></td></tr>
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When it was dry, the fun began as I started to cut into the felt.</div>
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I wasn't sure about the spikes or the tube towering over the whole piece so I experimented with ways to make it smaller, folding and twisting it. I was quite pleased with this ...</div>
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However, much later sitting at Deb's kitchen table, I decided that looked too much like a rose and I wanted something more abstract so I came up with something different ...</div>
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... which drew this comment from a friend yesterday - "So you got rid of the rose and came up with a bishop's hat!"</div>
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This is as far as I've taken the sample, having cut into the spiral and added a few more curls with needle felting. It needs more work and I'm planning to stitch into it eventually.</div>
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Here is Deb's sample piece.</div>
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As you can see, Deb also experimented with the tube, shortening it by cutting some off the top and placing it over the tube and then deciding to cut into the remaining top edge.<br />
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We thoroughly enjoyed working on our samples and began to think about which elements to use in our own designs. Look out for Part 2 coming soon ...<br />
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Cath Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04564139434627832433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6721268849312251564.post-28615135189138805292019-02-13T03:30:00.000+00:002019-02-13T03:30:10.323+00:00Designing with ScissorsRecently I attended a 5 day retreat at <a href="http://committedtocloth.uk/">Committed to Cloth</a> led by Leslie Morgan. It's a time to spend on your own work with input from Leslie whenever you need it. She is very good at asking leading questions and helping to move your work in a totally different direction!<br />
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My theme for the retreat was taste and I had got the nursery rhyme oranges and lemons stuck in my head. The starting point on the first day was mark making and so while I was thinking about oranges I printed with various different round objects. These first two are on large sheets of brown paper.<br />
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I also liked using white acrylic paint on black paper.<br />
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Designing with Scissors <br />
I started cutting circles out of one of the brown sheets and cutting those into segments. There were some interesting shapes left over which I tried on top of the printing. I worked on the black A3 paper in landscape format.<br />
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I printed some orange circles.<br />
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I tried turning the paper to portrait and added some more segments.<br />
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Leslie suggested I used some L shapes to test tightening up the composition.<br />
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I cut the sheet of black down to this.<br />
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The photos above and below show the design process which took place over two or three days with other design ideas going on at the same time. It was so great to have a wallboard where I could pin things up and think about the pieces. Sadly I don't have room at home for one.<br />
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In this series I had the piece of A3 black paper and was auditioning a diagonal line. First I tried with some white ribbon.<br />
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Then I tried an orange line.<br />
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Then I looked at the composition with the L shapes again.<br />
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I cut the sheet down and made a triptych. I auditioned the pieces in different places and different ways up until I was satisfied with the design.<br />
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This last version won!<br />
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I really enjoyed designing with scissors. And a craft knife and ruler! Whether anything I made ever gets to be a textile is open to question.<br />
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If you're interested there's a post about this retreat on my personal blog: <a href="https://www.newlycreative.com/2019/02/creative-play.html">Newly Creative</a>.<br />
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Bernice Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6721268849312251564.post-88357851746544699402019-01-31T23:15:00.000+00:002019-02-01T08:30:18.153+00:00Workshop works in progress 2 - Rusty & GnarlyI'm one of those people who need deadlines; I can make anything stretch out forever unless I have an end in sight. When I wrote the previous blog post, tying up loose ends from 2018, I set myself an arbitrary deadline of the end of January for Part 2. It is creeping up on me now (it's today!) and so I will set to it and tell you about the workshop I did last year with Alysn Midgelow-Marsden, called 'Rusty and Gnarly'.<br />
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After a quick chat, meeting up with old friends and new, there was a brief introduction from Alysn, explaining her way of tutoring, which is very much about encouraging us to play with the techniques and skills she gives us and seeing where it takes us, based loosely on our inspiration for the workshop.<br />
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Some of my rusty inspiration images, taken in St Ives when I went to see the Patrick Heron exhibition (see previous blog <a href="https://www.traversetextileart.uk/2018/06/looking.html" target="_blank">here</a>).<br />
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Setting up the rusting process:<br />
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We layered a wide variety of fabrics and papers with a myriad of rusty objects, dampening the layers and spraying liberally with vinegar as we went along. Some suitable objects were also wrapped and tied tightly, sometimes with extra inclusions. Finally, weighed down to ensure good contact with the 'rusty stuff', they were placed in a separate room and left until the next day. I did spot Alysn spraying everything again a few times to make sure they stayed damp, while we were working. <i>Unfortunately, I forgot to take photos of this.</i><br />
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We moved on to looking at our inspiration and the images we had brought with us, thinking about why we chose them and the specific things about them that we wanted to focus on - descriptive words and feelings.<br />
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Along with the above St Ives rust images, I also took this photo of an amazing tractor wheel - a lucky find on the slipway at Stein last Summer. Several people have said that I should have brought it home with me as it was obviously abandoned but no room unfortunately (and very heavy!).<br />
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We then spent the rest of the day exploring our choice of many different ways of making marks on a variety of dry and wet surfaces, fabrics and papers, printing, painting, playing with colour, dripping and dabbing, remembering our earlier discussions about the key elements of our inspirational images, before Alysn told us to put them away and not look at them again.<br />
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These photos of my mark-making, peeling paint explorations show them after they have been painted over with dilute procion dye or acrylic inks, which I actually did the following day but unfortunately I have no photos of them before I did that.<br />
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I used a drop cloth underneath while I was painting over them, as I often love them just as much as the work!<br />
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The following morning began with the great unwrapping of our rust dyeing. I must admit to an element of disappointment with some of my results. Although I had some interesting marks, there were other examples being revealed around the room which were definitely more spectacular. I think maybe my 'rusty stuff' wasn't rusty enough or I didn't use enough of it.<br />
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I was hoping for more of the turquoise from this wrapped copper but the small safety pins produced some interesting marks ...<br />
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and again on this wrap, which was slightly more successful.<br />
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Some interesting marks here ...<br />
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The fabrics were neutralised to prevent them from rusting any further, which can cause them to disintegrate over time. I couldn't help thinking that a bit more rusting might not be a bad idea for some of mine!<br />
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We spent the rest of the day in various activities - over painting with procion dye, acrylic ink, adding more colour if necessary. Many of the group worked on metal heat patination and embossing to make small metal samples to include in their work. I had brought some patinated metal pieces from previous workshops with me so I concentrated on getting more colour into my fabric and paper samples.<br />
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I had some success and by the end of the day my table looked like this!<br />
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The final day was a 'bringing it together' day and I had rather a lot to choose from! We went back to our focus words and feelings and began to play around with placing different fabrics together, tearing and layering as we went. This part of any work is always an incredibly slow process for me. I've worked with Alysn many times - she knows me well and just leaves me to it, with just a helpful word here and there. I sometimes wonder if I'm over-thinking things but I've tried different ways and still end up placing and re-placing the different elements of a piece many times over until it feels right.<br />
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These are some of my trial compositions, layering up my papers and fabrics and I like some more than others.<br />
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The one on the left above looks a bit too symmetrical but the other has possibilities. I actually started stitching the following composition ...<br />
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... but now I'm not so sure about the cruciform arrangement so I'll probably unpick that and change it. I remember reading somewhere that Julia Caprara, whose work I absolutely love, believed that you should never unpick any stitches - just add more! I wonder if I'll ever be able to be like that.<br />
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I would like to find a way to get more texture into them - they feel a bit flat to me at the moment. I think this will be one I will take further as it is not quite so flat. The paper plate will be cut into several smaller circles.<br />
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I'm not sure when that will happen, though as there are other deadlines looming, the most important being our first exhibition of 2019, which will be 'Revealed' at The Quilt and Stitch Village at Uttoxeter in April. Co-incidentally, I've just re-worked and finished a reverse applique copper and fabric piece for that exhibition - here's a sneak peek.<br />
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Remembering what I said about needing deadlines - that was also started on a workshop with Alysn and was the first time I'd ever stitched into metal ... six years ago!<br />
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<i>Cath</i>Cath Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04564139434627832433noreply@blogger.com