For centuries women have used cloth as a tool of comfort and as an expression of beauty within their homes. Creating cloth for warmth, cloth for shelter, our female predecessors embellished these linens with hand stitch using laborious and time consuming techniques thereby enhancing the functional beauty of objects which enveloped and protected their families. Inspired by these women I hope my creations pay tribute to and recognise the devotion expressed in cloth by our female ancestors .







''the use of traditional often time consuming process alludes to the devotion of a mother''. c K. A. Ruane 2007







Showing posts with label rainbow drops. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 14, 2012

home alone.....




This is how my house looks when I am left home alone, unsupervised. It could be worse...I haven't caused any trouble, haven't spoken to any strangers, haven't had wild parties. All in all I have been very good. On reflection however it probably wasn't the best idea to just empty the packet of Rainbow Drops straight onto the white board. There were crumbs and sugar everywhere. I had to refrain from eating them until I had painted them...the self control was amazing! 
I am enjoying adding to this piece of watercolour painting every now and then. These are only small studies but if I keep going every week or so adding a little more then in no time at all I will have quite a large painting. You will probably notice prints too, prints off my embroidery. I like to do this sometimes, it gives a  different perspective looking at embroidery in print form....I am pondering these for a while.