February Workshops in Melbourne

Looks like it will be the only time I will be teaching in Melbourne this year
I will be at Open Drawer with a Mixed Media Natural Dye Workshop
Saturday and Sunday Feb 27th and 28th
Details Here


and a Rag Pages workshop Monday Feb 29th
Details Here

This workshop is based on work which I will be exhibiting at Beth Hulme Gallery
titled Still Life March 3rd to 24th

Workshops in 2016

Where I will be teaching in 2016

These are all listed in the side bar with links.

I am travelling about Australia quite a bit next year

So if you want to do a workshop with me

Go have a look

January

Old Butter Factory, Denmark WA 

February

Open Drawer, Melbourne VIC

April

Context Art Blue Mountains NSW

June/July

Wrapt in Rocky, Rockhampton QLD

August

Hopefully a workshop in Brisbane

September

Off to Portugal

Busy, busy

And don't forget I will be a apart of an exhibition 

in Melbourne opening early March

There have been some images here and on FB

Like this

Drifting

It's not like nothing is happening and I haven't been doing stuff,

 it is just that, well I don't really know.

I am kinda just drifting along and

actually sitting down to blog has just been to hard

I have been playing with more paint rag pages

different ideas

and I made a book

which has gone up to an exhibition

in Mission Beach

A Book Of Xanth

full of experiments

and fun

My trip to Melbourne has been and gone

Saw the John Wolsley Exhibition 

which was awesome

But was very disappointed 

that they sold out of catalogs

in the first week

and will not be printing any more

I spent some time with Robyn out at Open Drawer

and talked about maybe doing a workshop there

next March

I ate and I shopped and had thoroughly lovely time

The Triple Sec Hot Chocolate at

Monsieur Truffe

was delicious

Went to Neil Wallace

and Tesutti Fabrics

So all is well as I settle back into my routine

prepping for a workshop in Ingham

in a week and a half

and playing with 

paint rags

though I will have to get some more paintings done

as my supply is getting very low

But that is how it goes

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Heading West

I am off on Tuesday 

trekking West

I am teaching a 

1day workshop

On Simple Paints and Tape Bound Books

here

on Saturday Oct 25th

Then I am off to SA 

to be a student in a workshop with 

Sandra Brownlee

Then to Melbourne

where I will be teaching at 

Open Drawer

Nov 5 & 6

details here

and then finishing up

with a 1 day workshop

again on Tape Bound Books

Friday Nov 7th

details here

I will be shutting up my Etsy

tomorrow afternoon

I am very much looking forward

 to the planning to be over

and the doing to begin

x te

Workshops in Melbourne

Workshops at Open Drawer

1158 Toorak Road
Camberwell (Hartwell Village) 3124

Natural Dyeing

Tutor: Trace Willans

Date: Wednesday November 5th & Thursday November 6th

Time: 9.30 – 3.30pm

Cost: $295.00 

Spend 2 days learning to dye using plant material gathered from your home and local environment. Whether that is from the leftovers from last night’s dinner, leaves and flowers growing in your garden or those gathered from your street or local park, never purchase dye again. Create cloth and paper which is truly local and seasonal.

We will be using a bundling technique with boiling and steaming which prints the actual plants onto the fabric, giving excellent detail.

Expect to go home with many individual pieces of fabric to incorporate into your work.

You will also have the option of dyeing your thread/wool in the pots or in your bundles for great variegated thread or you can spend some time stitching into your cloth before dyeing for a wonderful integrated look.

There will also be the opportunity to lay some papers out for rusting and I will set up a small indigo pot to play with.

 More info here

Making Simple Paint and Tape Bound Book

Tutor: Trace Willans

Date: Friday November 7th

Time: 9.30-3.30pm

Cost: $165

Begin the day by learning to make two simple paints from milk, flour, sugar and natural pigments.Then use them to paint a large sheet of watercolour paper on one side. While this is drying make a small sample tape bound book in preparation for tearing your painting into smaller pieces to make a one of a kind artist’s book which you will work back into using encaustic techniques.

More info here

Market Time

Concerina Book with Naturally Dyed Paper

Tomorrow I will be at the Makers Market inside at the Abbotsford Convent.

Had a nice workshop over at Open Drawer last thursday and they are currently taking names for a workshop in May.

And today I was at The Heathen Bazaar at Beautiful Silks, which had some lovely stalls, where I will again next month on the 14th of May. Hope to see some of you there.

Post Market or Let the Chillax Begin

Had a nice market over here yesterday. Met lots of new a very complimentary people and sold a few bits and bobs. Enough that I believe I can justify popping back next month. This a shot of my stall in the front room, where my friend Naomi and I got to greet all as they came in through the front door.



 

Here are a couple of the items up on display.

 
 

And a basket of books. There were more on friday but they have gone to incube8r in Fitzroy where I have a shelf which allows for interaction and all that touchy feely stuff which tactile people really need.

And in fact while I can kinda relax now in reality it never happens, or is that just me? Today I have a few more books to finish stitching in preparation for a bigger display at incube8r and I will be taking a couple out to Open Drawer tomorrow. And of course there is the magic of making all the stuff go back into the suitcase ready for the return trip over the water to the Island state that dangles below.