poster girls

Largely women

Crisp eating woman has lurched forward in the creative sense.
She and five sisters will hang in our up-coming Largely Women exhibition, alongside Drinking woman, Chocoholic woman, Stereotype woman and Busted zip woman, a motley crew.......hopefully producing Full Impact Women.



Scarlet women is developing I would quite like to only cover some of the body, but then one would be peering down into the chicken wire and chaos.

partials

scarlet woman is coming along [irritating the reds always flood the photo, don't know how to avoid it.
day Dreamer is still waiting for pages for her magazine, and inspiration.
I have emailed the author of Agnes' Jacket to ask if she is willing to share any photos [she said she had hundreds but none in book] to try and jump start me with the text.

tale of 2 ladies

Have really got stuck with how to construct the background to the seated nude. As usual I end up with a soliary female figure and can't integrate her........very symbolic.
Lorina just got on with it. Probably having so little choice of fabrics, so much time and most of all such deep rage provided momentum.
I probably over think it, or maybe underthink it.............I may cut her out to release her from the fabric, she is so stitched and machined now I reckon she will hang together. Then I can move her around more flexibly.
So with my new philosophy of not feeling guilty and beaten down I grabbed some chicken wire and made the figure [about 4' high] and have started willy nilly patching her with scarlet velvets and Zandra Rhodes off cuts, with lots of hand stitching to bind it together, as I did with the rose petals behind the rosey ladies..
It is great fun, but back aching bending over her a times..

Daisy and me

Back from holidays, trying to shunt out to sea after a couple of weeks in harbour.
So in an effort to sort my head out - a verbal think, posted here to remind me what I thunk, and hopefully live up to it. In the manner of Serena.......lots of tennis analogies are herewith banned.
I never have any trouble with ideas, well mostly, but seeing as time is getting on I have to have a bit of a focus.
Textile work is mostly very slow, so it is tempting to be distracted both by Life [Boo] and by other ideas which might be better/more fun etc.
My interests are rooted in Women and I think divide into Text, and 3D.
Sometimes I want to just do landscape texture [which sells well] or start some really big patchwork quilts and shut up!
Maybe later.
I combined text and 3D in Daisy but that is a bit over done maybe, that's why I am fascinated by the stitching on clothes, imprint of the body/thoughts/time......
I have also done a few bits with text , but after seeing Lorina, Agnes and Elizabeth I am overwhelmed - and inspired.
I have started a stitching which i hoped to use as a central icon for a panel of text, but I have got stuck in indecision and lack of confidence [plus I probably still start too soon before I have worked out the design issues]
Last night I stated a large wire figure which i would like to weave like the petals in the Rosy ladies, but that would rule out text.
Should Art use text, shouldn't it be self explanatory.
Art is what it is.

mad hatter

Bought a nice sketch pad somewhere sometime because I Needed it. Today I bought some new black fine pens for same reason.
Suddenly came together in my head this afternoon and started drawing again.
Kept wanting to, but gazed blankly around wondering what? but after a few days holiday i realised - whatever is in front of you - stupid.
So i did, long may it continue. {maybe it has to do with making daily felt hats..............inspiring

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