Waiting Too

Waiting Too

15" Wide by 40" High

Detail:  The title of this work references I piece I published here in November of 2018 which had been exhibited at OCADU.  I felt I had another image to create on the same theme.  These are the same goats who are waiting in the first work, and stitched again, using the photo/water soluble technique I use.  

detail:  The background fabrics are created by ME! All hand dyes on cotton and silk organza

 

Stitching leaves in the tree is hand done with embroidery threads, over hand dyed silk organza.

second set of covid posies

24" wide by 41.5" high

Covid Posies

Detail:  the first composition of these hand embroidered medallions was a horizontal one, and in my 'what if' musings: I wondered how this would work in a vertical composition.  I do find that it is helpful to go at an idea in more than one way sometimes.  In the end I think it is probably personal preference in terms of which you prefer, I don't think one way is considerably more successful than the other, but I am certainly interested in your feedback.  The previous version was posted in November.

Detail:  this detail demonstrates how the centre pops out from the background.  Every centre was hand embroidered, but in this work I did more embellishment with the machine in free motion when attaching it to the background.  The more sewing, the more it pops out.

Detail:  All the machine stitching on the background as well as on the medallion is with free motion, the stitching on the petals became more wild as I carried on and my ideas got looser.

detail:  The background fabrics, both the green and the grey, are from my hand dyed collection. The green piece had quite a few different layers with different techniques of dying and printing.