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All Stitched Up In Canada Bay

The exhibition opened yesterday .. a collection of works by embroiderers who are members of the Embroiderers' Guild NSW live in the municipal area of Canada Bay.  If you can come and visit - the exhibition is open library hours at Concord Library, 60 Flavelle Street, Concord NSW  til 30 October 2011.  Then it will be at Five Dock Library,Garfield Street, Five Dock from 3 November 2012 to 24 November 2011.

 

more on where does the time go?

Creative time has been consumed in the organisation of an exhibition - and it has become clear to me the amount of creative energy required just to get such things off the ground.  Anyway we are nearly there and the works will be hung on Tuesday 4.10.11 and the opening on 6.10.11.  Then it will al be over save for bump out and moving to next venue and a small amount of promotion for same - I hope.

In the interim I have been doodling to get some inspiration of same hand work:

And procrastinating about commencing some small machined panels which I have drafted but put off doing.

I have also spent some time framing memorabilia and photo collages.  Again taking time away from embroidery and depleting creative energy.   Will keep doodling, drawing and taking photos and try and fill the well!   The fighting fish in the tank near my computer is a collection of wonderful reds, blues and purples or reads black depending on angle and sunlight.  No doubt the colours and fin shapes will inspire something soon!

fractals

Wikipedia says:

A fractal is "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,"^[1] a property called self-similarity. ... There are several examples of fractals, which are defined as portraying exact self-similarity, quasi self-similarity, or statistical self-similarity

Its not as if I don't have enough cluttering my head but fractals have come up in a couple of conversations with maths orientated friends of late.  Having been at the back of the line when the maths gene was allocated I struggle with the concept and have been looking a bit more closely about me to try and spot fractal patterns in nature.  .  Directly out side my window is a tree fern  which I have decided is a fairly good example.

new frond

                         


There is also quite a bit of bracken - the smaller leaf sets look like a lesser version of the  whole frond - well that's what it looks like to me - and I think the reflection show this up:

Irish Lace

I have been diverted by the thought of learning to make Irish lace and spent a little time looking at the internet. This photo is from a site with lots of pattern which you can find here. Only drawback is I have to learn to crochet! I have started a scarf and will post a photo soon

I love to draw with charcoal

I try really hard to draw with pencil but I find charcoal is so more forgiving. These studies are based on pictures in an encyclopedia type picture book I got from the library. They were done on cream paper - can't seem to get the colour to photograph well.