tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63826190090959587862024-02-21T02:28:49.089-08:00Adventures in CreativityCarolynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04879026241760147984noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6382619009095958786.post-13056701532807071032020-06-18T04:31:00.038-07:002023-02-01T04:32:22.661-08:00Crafts and Embroidery Sales Page in aid of the Ometepe Project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here you will find a selection of items I have made, some incorporating work from friends in Nicaragua and other supporters of the project. There are also items brought back from Ometepe, and a few items made to sell to support the project by kind friends and supporters. Most items I have made can be made to order, so please contact me if you are interested in anything at all. All profits go into the Ometepe project funds. For some items I don't reclaim any costs and invite donations, such as the masks I am currently making during the Coronovirus outbreak. It is clearly stated which items are for donations.</div>
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Birthday card using blackwork and goldwork. I am happy to make these to order; I just need some notice as they can take a little while to complete.</div>
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Pair of cushions using silver metal threads and fabric paint, from a design supplied by Sophie Long on a day course at Hampton Court, originally stitched in gold.These were ordered by a local customer.</div>
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A small turtle on is available on my sales page.</div>
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Book cover using fabric printing and machine embroidery.</div>
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Some stumpwork Bumble bee cards after attending a workshop at Stitchfest, Ardingley. All of these were given away or sold.</div>
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Beaded dragon fly after attending another Ardingley workshop, which was sold at an open house sale.</div>
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Book cover after attending a machine embroidery course on Klimt designs. I have given severla as presents to fruiends.</div>
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A foray into bag making and the joys of using PVC fabric!! See my sales page for bags for sale.</div>
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A little stumpwork design from Sachiko Morimoto's book, Stumpwork Flowers. This contains some beautiful little projects that can be stand alone pictures or made into notebook covers or other small items. I am about to make another version of this for a commission.</div>
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A Cosmos design from a course with Kate Cross at the RSN sold at Brighton Open Houses in May 2016.</div>
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Another RSN day course project. This is available for sale framed at £40 13.5 x 11.5 ins</div>
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Whilst creating my stumpwork, I made a beaded 'slip' for the glade which I didn't use in the final piece. Since I store away such pieces for future inspiration, I knew it would ultimately find a use. Having also experimented with making wings from shear fabrics and machining, the two ideas came together to make beetles!<br />
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Having made one, I was then asked to make another, so I have a growing collection of creepy crawlies, many of which I have sold!<br />
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<span>This project was started at the Embroiderers' Guild summer school in June 2016. It involves applying paper, stitching, gimp, lurks and beads and sequins to a piece of sheer fabric. The honesty design was great and very delicate; fastening off was tricky and stitching with the silk floss quite a challenge. I loved the effect of it being suspended and therefore appearing real. The design and tuition were by Jennie Adin Christie, a really organised and supportive teacher. I gave this to my brother as a housewarming present.</span></div>
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<span>For some time I have had it in mind to do a silk shading of another of my paintings. Last year I purchased a small travel slate frame, planning to take it to Central America. However the prospect of taking something that complex and the doubt of having appropriate lighting, made me change my mind. But this spring I set about tackling this project. I had to reduce the size of the picture in order to fit it within the bounds of the frame. I used all the proper procedures for setting up the frame and transferring the design. I had collected a substantial range of silk floss but due to the reduced size of the piece, needed to reduce the range. It was only after I had begun stitching that I realised the silk Dupion I had purchased was sitting in my bag and I had embroidered onto the calico! It is a perfectly suitable background so I carried on, saving my silk for a later project. I worked on this during my two weeks in Scotland, and completed it in August. I did not use RSN mounting procedures, double sided tape works perfectly well for framing purposes.</span></div>
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I always like to take some small projects when I travel and these two floral pieces were done whilst I was in Central America. This latter piece has been sold at the Kirdford Community shop exhibition.</div>
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This piece was inspired by a painting course. We were advised to take a flower and analyse it mathematically. This was a fascinating investigation and resulted in a drawing that looked like a plan. So it became the plan for a piece of silk shading. The background silk was part of an experiment for the background of one of my RSN projects, which didn't quite work for that project. Everything finds a use some time. So now I have embroidered several other versions of this.</div>
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They re in stumpwork, silk shading and applique and are priced at £20 & £25. They measure 8x8 ins</div>
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My latest piece was a special request for a friend for a family gift. It is a Diamond Anniversary clematis in wired stumpwork set in a garden. The work was sold framed in a washed boxframe set on a maroon mount to complement the colours. I use Nicolas Gentle Framers Washingtom, West Sussex.</div>
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I have also made some embroideries and applied to calico bags for the Art Fayre in October and am making more covered books with similar embroideries, and some more of those favourite pincushions, that have been so popular. All would make presents for Christmas!</div>
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A little private sale at my house and the Bonnet cap mushrooms, top right has now gone.</div>
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This was a little brooch project made st Ardingley Stitchfest in July with the Embroiderer's Guild. It has even survived the washing machine!</div>
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I am now making items for the Horsham Artists' Open Studios event at Parkside in October.</div>
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A variety of embroidered book covers stiffened with pelmet vilene and reusable on standard book sizes. These all have lined books in them, A5 and A6.</div>
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I am currently working on another Autumn leaves piece based on observations in New England in 2016. I am embroidering the leaves individually and forming veins from florists' wire, then I will overlay and embroider them onto brown tweed to look like the forest floor.</div>
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This piece is now finished and framed, having added some felted and stumpwork pieces during the Annual Embroiderers' Summer School in 2018. It was exhibited at the South East Embroiderers' exhibition at Roffey Park, Summer 2019 and has now been sold.</div>
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<span>This is 11.5 x 11.5 ins framed and is priced at £60 It is now reframed with a cream mount.</span><br />
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More book covers, one decorated with a stumpwork beetle and printed leaf, the other with embroidered stumpwork. All ready for the Coffee and Crafts morning on 11th August, see events page. This has been sold.</div>
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I am now making some more little boxes based on my tuition at the Royal School of Needlework, and some little gift bags. I am hoping these might be of interest towards Christmas. This is an ongoing piece of work and these are proving popular.</div>
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If you require one of these please contact me with an idea of size and colour.</div>
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These little gift bags are available at £6.50 and will be for sale at forthcoming events.</div>
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More items for Christmas sales. A good way and relaxing to pass the evenings and use up odds and ends of thread and donated aida fabric.</div>
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I also have gift tags with similar designs at only 50p!</div>
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a cushion design started with printing at the Embroiderers' Guild Summer School.This was sold made into a cushion Christmas 2019. </div>
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A design developed from a stay in Rosemoor Gardens</div>
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This selection of projects were made using embroideries I brought back from Nicaragua. Whilst there in January and February, I taught the local family to embroider. They took to it very well and made many designs which I brought home. I am now making these into saleable items. They are still continuing with whatever come to hand and being very creative too.</div>
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During the lockdown for Coronovirus, I have set out to complete various projects. Here is a stumpwork strawberry. I wanted to use the little mounts I had in a creative way, and the notion of the leaves coming out over it appealed to me. My sister now has this! The other project is a set of jam jar covers from some simple projects I did whilst in Nicaragua.</div>
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This scene was developed from a piece of experimental printing I made at a workshop by Sandra Meech. I subsequently visited a bluebell wood and looked at the fabric in a new light. It is largely machine stitched using automatic stitches from the machine's repertoire, then embellished with hand embroidery. This was exhibited as part of our Embroiderers' Guild exhibition at Horsham Museum in 2014. Following this event, a friend donated for this.</div>
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I had two photos, one of a fern and the other of a wall, taken whilst in Northern Spain. I attended a course by Frances Westwood from our local Embroiderers' guild, called Transfer your Affections. I learned how to use transfer paints to print onto fabric, just the techniques I needed to use these ideas and have subsequently used them again. I used some new stitches, including Basque stitch, which seemed very appropriate, since I had been in the Basque country when I took the photos. This is on my bedroom wall! This work has now been sold.</div>
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Experimenting with sheer fabrics and machine stitching to create Autumn leaves. I used a watercolour painting as the starting point. I then tried some using soluble material and assembled all into a composition based on a painting I had done. The jug is padded to make it 3D and the background is printed. This was sold at the South East Embroiderers' Guild exhibition at Denbies in May 2017.</div>
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This piece was constructed during a weekend course at West Dean led by Wendy Dolan. We overlayed sheer fabrics with machine stitching. Mine suggested a garden so, I made little flowers to attach. The finished piece was made into a a silk bag which someone purchased at the Brighton Arts Trail 2016.</div>
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This picture arose from the Sandra Meech course too, where a piece of printing looked like a cornfield. Having lived in Norfolk for some years I tried to replicate the Norfolk poppies, using soluble material and machine stitching. A friend donated for this at my first Macmillan event.</div>
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This is a very large piece. It was made after the Applique project I did for my RSN course. I made a number of experiments to create the background and some of these were not used so I decided to create Gardens of Heligan Mark 2. I began with some background machined embroidery, including some of the foliage. I then created all the little foxglove trumpets in needlelace and applied to the design. I also incorporated a silk shaded butterfly that I had made at an RSN summer course led by Kate Cross. I embellished with a number of applied and embroidered flowers. This was on display in the Horsham Artists Open Studios exhibition at Roffey Park 2015 and Brighton Open Houses trail 2016. It has now been sold at The South East Embroiderers' Guild exhibition at Denbies in May 2017.</div>
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Two book covers made at a workshop with Anne Kelly. They were composed using photos and mementoes from my holiday in Central America, to make covers for my next trip. The larger cover has 'Gracias por la vida que me ha dado tanto' sewn on to it.</div>
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My latest experimental piece was inspired by the wonderful leaf colours seen in New England in 2016. We stayed in a resort called Magic Mountain and walked around a lake called Emerald Lake. There were wonderful reflections in the water and we walked across a forest floor covered in leaves.</div>
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I have made opaque leaves using florists' wire for the veins and transparent leaves using machine embroidery and sheer fabrics. All have been cut out and will be applied to the tweed fabric background. I have used many RSN techniques, but also broken a number of 'rules' This is work in progress.</div>
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This was my first project at the Royal School of Needlework, Jacobean Crewelwork. I was surprised at how long it took to prepare the frame for embroidering and to work out and plan the design and colours. It was a good learning experience where I was introduced to a range of different stitches. The mounting of the work was also a new experience for me, but there has been plenty of opportunity to improve on this with successive projects. The design is called Tree of Life and I found shapes and symbols in the RSN library and also from the internet.It is not a technique I have repeated yet as I do not enjoy working with wool.</div>
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Silk shading is probably considered one of the most challenging techniques, but is one that I love. It is very much like painting but using a needle and thread. This has its danger points give the fineness of the needle and my ability to prick my finger. This led to a major accident with this piece and I was forced to bring my creative skills into action to modify the design to overcome the effect of my 'accident'. I used my Summer Rose painting (see Botanical Art gallery) as inspiration, incorporating the seedhead, stem and leaves. It took a number of months over the summer of 2013. This piece has been published in the RSN newsletter, and was exhibited at an Edexel exhibition.</div>
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This Blackwork piece was very challenging for me, largely because it is only in black on white linen and I love colour. The challenge was to create a photographic effect using various thicknesses of black thread and about 6 different stitches in different sizes. I tried to logically analyse the combinations of effects but soon found this did not really help. It was necessary to use them as a palette to achieve the desired effect. I did not particularly enjoy the technique, although mastering it quite successfully; this piece was displayed at Hampton Court Palace at an RSN exhibition. The picture was drawn from a photo of a cottage in Lacock. Wiltshire.</div>
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This last project for my certificate course is goldwork. I developed the design using some photos from the National Geographic Although the stitched elements are not complicated, the potential for damage is significant. Pieces of gold thread were very easily damaged, sometimes after hours of careful attachment and just the touch of a needlepoint! Cut pieces of wire had a habit of distributing themselves across the floor, becoming unusable and metal thread getting caught on the sewing thread, would sometimes unravel. I have used this technique but added in coloured beads and also combined with blackwork which is great for small greetings cards. </div>
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This is the first project on my Diploma course. I used one of my paintings (see gallery) as the design and simply translated it using wool to shade on canvas. The colours were mixed together in the needle using two different coloured threads, then the background was embroidered in Kashmir stitch. I was so pleased when my lines of sewing met around the toadstools and matched up! I found it quite difficult not to create bulk underneath with constantly changing colours and despite careful checking as I went and after I finished, some missed stitched were identified. With my history of sewing tapestries I expected this to be easy but it wasn't! Stretching and mounting were very hard because of the inflexibility of the canvas.</div>
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This Applique module is one of the more creative elements of the course. It has to incorporate a number of techniques, joining mechanisms and edges. The design was derived from some paintings I had done after visiting the Gardens of Heligan. It was the Foxgloves that appealed. I used a mixture of machine and hand embroidery to create the background and some of the 3D pieces. These were gradually assembled with copious amounts of hand embroidery. I made a second interpretation which can be seen in 'Experimental Embroidery'.</div>
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This is the fourth of my RSN projects, Stumpwork. I used a small painting by a friend as the design had to include a figure. Similar to the applique, it used a variety of stitching. The little figure was made from felt and stuffed, then dressed; his head, hair, face and hands all made and embroidered and attached. This reminded me of those 'dressing the doll' activities of childhood days. I painted the background, then embroidered most of this later, applying pieces of fabric and embroidery to create the daffodils and slips (separately constructed pieces) to create the glade. I then stitched and attached numerous little plants and blades of grass. It really was great fun to do!</div>
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My most recent project proved to be quite a challenge. The subject needed to have fur, hair or feathers. After some debate I chose the kingfisher because of the beautiful colours. It was an enjoyable piece because of the colour range, although sewing outlines for each individual feather before silk shading was time consuming., The thickness of stitches then makes it difficult to get the very fine needle through. I am a very good customer for needle purchase.</div>
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I have now completed my advanced goldwork. This piece, once more took inspiration from the work of Angie Lewin. Her stylised p<span style="text-align: center;">rints interpret well into embroidery. I first dyed the fabric and applied applique grasses with couching. Then a range of techniques were applied using gold, bronze and red metal threads. These included basket weave, laid work, s-ing, chipping, couched threads and plate. I am pleased with the result but will await the marking. This piece might go well in my redecorated lounge. My final module will be box making and could start a whole new aspect to my work!</span><div><div style="text-align: center;">This is available as an A6 card, see sales page.</div>
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May 2018 And now for something completely different. For my last Diploma module I am going to make a jewellery box. I have first made the tiny sample box, which involved lots of careful cutting, sticking, padding and sewing but no embroidery. However the main piece will need some embroidered decoration. I am rather looking forward to doing something completely different and am thinking about the colour as it could be focus for the colour scheme for my bedroom overhaul. Something like lime green and violet spring to mind.. Oh wasn't that the colour of the Queen's dress for the wedding!</div>
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My first attempts at life drawing were surprisingly successful. I realised that the proportions and relationships in the human body were similarly important as they are in plants!<br />
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I try to keep a record of my paintings as i is good to reflect from time to time. However, whilst scanning of small pieces is relatively easy, larger pieces can be quite expensive to have photographed and I find it very difficult to get the light correct when taking my own photos.<br />
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These are a selection from my experiments!<br />
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Ballet shoes, using inspiration from a photograph in a newspaper.</div>
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Monkey Mia, from a sketch made in Australia. I added compost to the yellow paint to get the texture of the sand, and did a fair bit of splashing to get the effects of the sea! The original is now owned by the friend I travelled with and a print is owned by a member of my family who also has connections to that area of Australia.</div>
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This was painted from a sketch made whilst staying in the Pyrenees and is now owned by the owner of the house.</div>
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These two paintings were done towards the end of a week's painting in Andalucia. I had set out to try a looser approach and was failing spectacularly. I then got completely outside the box and started dribbling the paint around and carving into it with a scalpel to achieve the spiky effect. Everyone was quite amazed and I have to say I was fairly pleased with the result. These two fairly large paintings were sold at the Horsham Artists exhibition in 2015 but I still have cards and prints of the individual thistles. I am not sure I could replicate this.</div>
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After painting a botanical version I decided to apply some newly acquired techniques in using this wet approach. This painting is still available.</div>
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This is a very large piece. I had a sheet of A1 hot pressed paper I had bought and was on the lookout for subject. The very large flag irises in my garden presented just the right subject. So I started with a washed background and a wet on wet approach, then went in later with some finer detail. This painting is still available and is in a silver tone frame with perspex rather than glass because of its size.</div>
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This painting is £130 It is 29x37ins and beacuse of its size it has perspex rather than glass.</div>
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Both of these paintings were undertaken on a painting holiday in France. I was painting outside and using a wet approach. The week was very challenging and often cold, and trying to keep my equipment together in villages and fields in the windy weather was certainly interesting. I think I am really a studio painter, as I enjoy sitting in peace and quiet and concentrating!</div>
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This composition was an attempt to bring together some embroidery and painting using the style of Ernst Haeckel as inspiration. I began with paintings of some small Andalusian plants, then grouped them into a pattern, adding some simple embroideries to complete the symmetry. This is on a bedroom wall in my house, simply because the colours toned well! I don't really agree with choosing paintings to match colour schemes, but as I had it anyway.................</div>
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It is a long time since I have dabbled in anything not botanical, but these poppies at Rosemoor gardens inspired me to work in a looser form. I then added some penwork.</div>
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I have also created a design for an embroidery using other inspiration from the same trip.</div>
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Some Ometepe painting, two done en plein air in Ometepe and two completed at home from Photos-now a set of cards!</div>
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Borlotti bean composition. This was the first composition I attempted drawing a bean that I had grown in my garden. I remember struggling so hard with the leaves, which had very definite veins, yet were quite transparent. It adorns my kitchen now.</div>
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I painted the poppy botanical composition after a course at West Dean, learning about the botanical detail of plants. It was good to do the dissections and look at the minute detail of all parts of the plant. .</div>
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I just love orchids and they present such a challenge with their delicacy and intricate construction. I just painted the flower but I now know that to be botanically correct, I should have included the leaves and the growing habit of the plant. </div>
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Another plant I grew; this painting was purchased by a friend at my first Macmillan fundraising event. I think I now have a better repertoire of colours in my palette for capturing these brilliant hues.</div>
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I was fascinated by the pattern and detail in these seedheads found on a walk in the locality.</div>
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I painted this at a workshop looking at Spring plants; the challenge was to see the various colours that exist in an apparently white flower.</div>
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I have these delicate little Tomasini crocus spreading through my front border. I donated this small painting to a local charity shop.</div>
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This too is from my garden; it is a hellebore called Queen of the Night. It was purchased by a lady who lives locally when she very kindly helped me with a fundraising event for Macmillan.</div>
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This is another painting started at a workshop with the theme of summer roses. I have subsequently painted several roses. They are extremely challenging with the complex petal arrangements and the colours which, although sometimes rich, also have a sense of transparency and delicacy. This painting was exhibited at a local community store on their Art Wall. Sometime later a query was forwarded from someone who had seen a photo of it on a Facebook page. They purchased it despite never having seen the 'real thing' and were very pleased.</div>
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This was also used as a design for a silk shading project for my Certificate in Traditional Hand Embroidery at the Royal School of Needlework, which has gained several accolades (see embroidery blog ). </div>
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This is a sweet pea I grew in my garden. For some reason this painting was completed more quickly than some. I love the bright colours. It was purchased during 2015 Horsham Art Trail.</div>
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An embroidered version of this can be seen in the embroidery section of this blog.</div>
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I started this leaf using a wet on wet approach. The range of colours was fascinating. I always find it difficult to paint the veins realistically. This was framed with two other Autumn leaves and was eventually donated to a local charity shop. Sometimes I need to clear my cupboards to clear my mind for new projects!</div>
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This painting offered an opportunity for a lot of practice in leaf painting! It is available as mounted painting (not framed £25 13x17ins).</div>
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Bonnet cap mushroom fascinate me, with their colours and form. The way this sat in a leafy clump inspired the botanical composition to show the various elements. I did one in pen, ink and wash too.</div>
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This is a French thistle, collected and drawn whilst on a painting holiday, when I was learning a totally different style. I completed the painting on my return; it was those wonderful Fibonacci patterns around the flower and seedheads that fascinated me. A member of the family has this painting. I painted another in a completely wet on wet, loose style. (see Gallery of experimental work).</div>
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I have two brown/beige studies, one of an onion, for which I do not currently have an image and this Physalis. Both have those brown papery coverings.</div>
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I drew this Eucalyptus whilst on holiday in Australia. I had to collect and sketch all my information,then use to paint the composition on my return. This was purchased during the Horsham Art Trail 2015.</div>
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I painted this double fungi, collected locally at the same time as the Bonnet Cap Mushrooms. This now belongs to a friend. Here I was trying to achieve a lighter touch with less dense paint.</div>
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I was asked to paint a pair of flowers for someone who had seen my work in the Southwater Art exhibition. I painted these.</div>
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The subject of this study was to paint a group of plants pollinated by the same creature. After some investigation I found this group of common plants that were pollinated by a species of butterfly. This was purchased during the Horsham Art Trail 2015.</div>
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I have this painting on my kitchen wall; it is of a Chilli Hot Lemon, which was growing the the West Dean greenhouses, when I went on a painting course.</div>
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This was my first entry into the Society of Floral Artists exhibition, as an Associate member. I was thrilled when I heard hat someone had purchased it. This too, was painted whilst on a course at West Dean. I have used this as a design for Canvas Shading Project for my Diploma in Traditional Hand Embroidery at the Royal School of Needlework.</div>
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The pear was painted at Puck Barn near Guildford , where there is a wonderful collection of fruit trees. It was exhibited when I was a member of Southwater Art Group. I still have this painting for sale. £80 14.5x19 ins</div>
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I painted the Leek whilst attending a course at West Dean, entitled ' Vegetables can be beautiful'. They certainly can-I have since painted an aubergine. I have a print of the leek on my wall but the original was purchased by Horsham Museum, during the Art Trail 2015.</div>
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And following on from the leek, I then tried a high shine vegetable, an aubergine. This one is also in my kitchen.</div>
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I painted these cream roses and freesias from a birthday bouquet; the challenge was to capture the delicacy of the pale colours. I worked on this as a wedding gift to a friend.</div>
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I think I choose subjects that will challenge me most. On a Spring course at West Dean College, I thought I would try painting some apple blossom. However my tutor thought I should capture a complete branch. I was a bit overwhelmed by the paleness of the blossom and the complexity of the subject! This did need a certain amount of 'blood, sweat and tears'. This has found a home with its partner pink apple blossom, see below. I have an Apple blossom print available at £30.</div>
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Following the challenges of the apple blossom, I moved on to something with more colour. I started this painting with no preliminary drawing, most unusual for me; I began painting the outlines in a pale wash, then added the colour, later drawing in detail. I also used some masking fluid for the centre, something else I rarely use. Interestingly the cards of this painting have all gone very quickly,</div>
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I painted both of these hellebores at West Dean in 2015 when the gardens there were so beautiful with all the Spring flowers. I do love hellebores with their promise of more to come in the garden. Again the pale colours presented a challenge, and the greener one is called Yellow Lady, which in no way reflected the actual colour.</div>
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The cream hellebore is now framed as a square piece 10.5 x 10.5in at £80 This has been given as a gift.</div>
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I tried very hard to keep the paleness and transparency of this rose by following the teaching I had received about building thin washes slowly. It is probably the piece that I am most satisfied with, so perhaps that is a good sign. This has been given as a gift.</div>
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This picture, entitled 'Autumn study' was started some time ago, but only just completed. It was one of those wintertime paintings when the lack of flowers guided me to look at my collection of dried and dead specimens. There were many colours and shapes to be explored.</div>
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This is the second apple blossom painting which I have undertaken as a request. I had some challenges with the first version so the opportunity to have another go was actually quite welcome. This time I took a more methodical approach, starting with those elements furthest away. I also tried to keep the overall balance in mind, so as to look at the time across the painting as well as on each leaf and blossom. This time it is much bolder, partly because the flowers are a stronger pink. I am now painting a downward hanging branch. I am getting to know the apple blossom very well.</div>
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March 2017 and a course at West Dean exploring aurículas and primula, have resulted in two new spring compositions. I love the exquisite delicacy or aurículas.</div>
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June 2017 And now a third apple blossom; I have learned so much from having repeated attempts. This is for sale. £150 17x19.75ins This has been sold.</div>
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This passion flower grows in my garden; it has taken more than a year to complete as I had to await the seasons for each stage of the growth. It will be framed for my next exhibition on October 21st and 22nd at Parkside Horsham as part of the Horsham Artist's Open Studios group Art Fayre.</div>
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A current project is a viola Endura, one of the few flowers I could find in late Autumn, and of course the light is not good for painting at this time of year. I plan to arrange it in a contemporary way with one leaf in 3D coming over the mount at the bottom.</div>
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My latest piece completed in July 2018, was begun as part of a workshop. Our teacher Leigh Ann Gale had just finished writing a book and was using an excerpt to guide us through painting 'cushioned' leaves, like those of a primula.</div>
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After trying out the leaf and drawing the plant, I decided to enlarge it and create a composition, getting plenty of leaf practice!!</div>
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I completed the finishing touches whilst painting at Horsham museum, an event to promote the Association of Sussex Artists, to which this piece will be submitted.</div>
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My Christmas project for 2018 was a rosehip from on of my garden roses called ' For your eyes only. It has beautiful orange red hips. </div>
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I have used it for my Christmas cards, and the original, framed in a simple holly green frame, sold the day after I collected it from the framers! So more funds for my Ometepe project.</div>
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I have just completed a painting of a Voodoo Lily, seen whilst on holiday in Crete, earlier in the year. It is has been challenging because if it's size, unusual colours and textures. It cannot be strictly botanical as I have had to work from photographs. There was nowhere to sit to make a site drawing! I will exhibit this painting at exhibitions this year. It has now been given as a gift.</div>
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This painting is a drumstick primula. I have some cards of this painting. The two above paintings were in the ASA exhibition in Horsham, both are still available.</div>
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This is my latest painting of a Pulsatilla or Pasque flower. I began it last year and then there were no more flowers so I had to wait til this year to complete it. It is finished just in time for Easter. Very apt as Pasque means Easter. I have pink and mauve versions too.</div>
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I've always wanted to try painting a tulip. This one I started at a class and finished during lockdown! Getting the vibrancy of colour was a bit challenging and painting the large area of leaf smoothly. </div>
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This painting was undertaken during the pandemic following some freedom to walk in the woods and collect fungi. I liked the opportunity to pain a plant with a different structure. Having such a variety of colours was also fun. This is framed in a simple white frame and is available for £150. It has been sold.</div>
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This painting was from sketches of Rudbekia and sunflowers undertaken at Parham House West Sussex in 2022. 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<span style="font-family: "lucida handwriting"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I have held a lifelong interest in
art and embroidery. When I was moving towards retirement I decided to make
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<span style="font-family: "lucida handwriting"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I started studying botanical
illustration in 2010 at an evening class . The detailed work appealed to the patient side
of my personality and also resonated with the gardener in me. I felt inspired to paint plants in my garden. I also attended courses at West Dean college
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the beginning I was keen to try varied approaches. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida handwriting"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I also took classes with a local artist where I learnt to work with acrylics. I found I wanted to’ break out’ after time
spent working in detail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida handwriting";"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">However eventually I felt I was
pulling </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">myself</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> in different directions and that my love was to use a botanical
approach, even if occasionally I let go with a looser approach.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "lucida handwriting"; font-size: 11.0pt;">During this time, I had also taken
up embroidery which had a similarly painstaking attention to detail. I began using my paintings as embroidery
designs , thus combining hobbies, and have used some as designs for my Royal School of Needlework Certificate and Diploma course.</span></div>
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Society of Floral Painters where I am an associate member; I have also
exhibited at the Association of Sussex Artists, the Southwater Art Club, Storrington Museum and
Kirdford Community shop Art Wall. I
have participated in Horsham Open Studios 2015, 2017 and Brighton Open Houses 2016. My embroidery has been exhibited at Edexcel London and at Hampton Court Palace,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "lucida handwriting";">My interest in embroidery started from a young age, having been brought up in the
fifties when The Woman's Weekly was a feature of our lives. Sewing was both a
home pastime and part of the school syllabus. I remember binka canvas
pieces, cross stitch table clothes, dressmaking and learning basic embroidery stitches.
I have a vivid memory of embroidering a budgerigar from one of those blue
iron on transfers. I think I made it very grubby and managed to make a hole from
unpicking it. I was obviously undeterred and at junior school gained a highly
commended award in a local competition, for a small tablecloth in red, with
white embroidered motifs all around it. I still have that tablecloth and it
comes out at Christmas!</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="yui_3_7_2_51_1424165308992_553"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="yui_3_7_2_51_1424165308992_166"></a><span style="font-family: "lucida handwriting";">During my career as a primary school teacher I was lucky to have
the freedom to focus on creativity and incorporate embroidery into the
curriculum, something that is more challenging theses days. I attended some inspiring creative courses and would take
children's drawing and transfer them to fabric for embroidery at our art and
sewing clubs. Alongside this I continued to sew for pleasure doing tapestry, counted
cross stitch and embroidery kits, but nothing original. I still have some of
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<span style="font-family: "lucida handwriting";"> I won a prize in the Dereham in Bloom event, for a herb embroidery stitched
on fine linen showing a cross section of the plants above and below ground. The
family had birth and wedding samplers and cross stitched Christmas and special
occasion cards. And my finale was a Millennium sampler which I finally completed in 2010! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="yui_3_7_2_51_1424165308992_554"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="yui_3_7_2_51_1424165308992_171"></a><span style="font-family: "lucida handwriting";">My revelation came as I took a part time step towards retirement.
I treated myself to a weekend break about the Tudors and visited Hampton
Court Palace. I picked up a leaflet about the RSN, attended a day course
a few weeks later and visited the tutor at Parham the following day for an
exhibition . There I met people from local embroiderers' guilds and the
inspiration set me on a new path. I joined the embroiderers' Guild and
attended workshops learning a whole new range of techniques and I continue to
go to day and weekend courses at the RSN. During this time I felt the
need for some more structured teaching and eventually once fully retired
decided to invest some of my savings into attending the RSN Certificate.
This opened a whole new world to me which has led on to studying for the Diploma and using these techniques to experiment with other projects. I am now able to use techniques to interpret my paintings in stitch or to paint on fabric to enhance my embroideries<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mostly currently I am working to support children in a poor community in Nicaragua that I have visited and where I am returning to help them.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
<span style="font-family: "lucida handwriting"; font-size: 11.0pt;">See my charity blog, The Forgotten Children of the Land of Lakes and Volcanoes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "lucida handwriting"; font-size: 14.6667px;">https://2newhorizons4ometepe.blogspot.co.uk/</span></div>
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