SAQA Visioning progress in March



Meadow

 Well I finally trimmed up this piece from 2009 and gave it a proper backing and binding - and a little dignity I think.  As part of the SAQA Visioning Project and my commitment to create a body of works or series, Little Sister and I are holding our second joint exhibition  (the first being some 15 years ago, oh my!) and I need to create a number of small art quilts to complement our exhibition of ... nests. Meadow is an experiment in plastic cards, acrylic paint, tissue paper, netting and felt - that grew from the techniques, experimentation and pure letting go I experienced with Playways.

Paint + fibre

Between the 2QAQ group, Dale Rollerson and Playways have taken me and my machine to creative places I did not think I could imagine ... my only complaint is that the possibilities are endless and the WMBM is frequently a "studio widow". He will manage. His mantra is that I should follow my dreams, so long as that doesn't mean he has to leave his dreams to participate in mine. Art quilts and aviaries - it's a marriage made in compatibility. 
Painted some sheets of vliesofix over last weekend and  bonded them to felt perhaps to be rotary cut, re-purposed and start a new life as a journal cover. Played with Tyvek thanks to an envelope received from the US some months ago when playing tourist ... I'm getting into the painting and loving it.
Used all the copper thread offcuts from a different project with silk that I'd dyed at Ankie's some time ago to make another ....(you guessed it ) nest and played with wafer thin sections of silk fibres carefully bonded with a hint of Angelina fibre and now have a possibility for another nest or bowl .. albeit with  a fragility rating of "fairy floss".