Where Have I been?

Oh dear, has it really been that long since my last post. A whole Month!!!!

I spent some time in Melbourne and went along to the Fred Williams Exhibition which was Fabulous.

Then I went to Qld to Dorothy Caldwell's workshop again Fabulous

above is my ink painting using a brush on a long stick

It has now been chopped up and is being made into a book

Which I will offer on etsy sometime.

But on day two of the workshop I got sick

Some very nasty virus came to stay

Because of this when I flew home my wonderful husband

drove for 5 hours to pick me up from the airport

we stayed the night at his brothers and then drove home again

the next day.

Boy did I feel loved.

Anyway it took me over a week to recover from that.

And I have also been prepping for my upcoming workshop

at Beautiful Silks Natural Dye Symposium

coming up in July.

Below is a little something I wrote for that.

Cutch

I am currently in my kitchen making samples for my workshop at The Natural Dye Symposium.

These are my samples playing with cutch and soy milk and as you can see i have 4 different colours happening just from making small additions. Next I will do the same experiments with skim milk and with egg. Before moving onto the next natural dye. So there should be many colour ideas for you to look at. This of course will be for the second day of the workshop.

Day 1 will be all about what to put colour onto. I don’t just mean what type of paper, cloth or board, though these are considerations, but what to apply on top for natural texture and what choices do we have to attach to our surface. So we will look at glues and gessoes, threads and paper, starch pastes and plaster.

My workshop will be very much process not outcome based. I will be providing you with recipes, which of course should only be thought of as guidelines just as they are in cooking. Where you choose to take them is entirely up to you.

I look forward to journeying with you.

Hopefully I will have more exciting things to relate soon.
x te

Away

Sunrise flying east

Trish Baldwin's display of treasure

I am currently in Melbourne

after leaving home over a week ago

and spending some time in the Blue Mountains

where I taught a two day Datural Dye Workshop

and assisted Trish in a 4 day Encaustic Workkshop

And boy did I have a good time.

So for now I am catching up on correspondence

and working on my next article for Down Under Textiles Magazine

There will also be a little shopping

and some exhibition viewing

before heading north

to Queensland for a Dorothy Caldwell Workshop

Life is good.

x te

Grinning all Over

For those of you left dangling from the last post.

Yes I did win.

and a nice cheque came with the prize

so now I will have spending money

on my imminent trip eastwards.

(UpDate: just got a phone call to say the piece has now been sold)

These are few pictures from the Denmark Market

that I attended yesterday

This has also added a bit more to the spending pot.

I will be leaving for the Bllue Mountains

on Thursday

to attend the Context Art Forum

where I will be co-teaching a 2 day

Natural Dyeworkshop

 with Kirsten Ingemar

then I will be an assistant in the 4 day Encaustic workshop

for Trish Baldwin Seggebruch

Ain't I the lucky one.

But wait theres more.

After a week in Melbourne i get to fly up to Queensland

for a workshop with

Dorothy Caldwell

It is like Heaven on a Stick

and here are some images of the clothes

I have been fast track dyeing

to take with me

tshirts and sleeveless tops

and Socks!!!!!!!!!!

x te