Printing

The Wardian case editions

These are my new editioned prints. You'll be able to buy them from the galleries soon when I have time to drop them off!

studio love

It has been a big week and weekend. there is a lot going on at the moment... mostly fun things really. i have been doing lots of driving lately. a weekend down in Somers for a wonderful dinner party at a friend's house. we went for a soggy beach walk and i visited Pamela who wowed me with her scarf eco-printed with eucalyptus cinerea! The reddest red i have ever seen!

The explorer you see here is a quick snap of the etching plate with a fantastic aquatint thanks to Jennifer's wonderful studio in Red Hill.

The top pics are my studio and the one's below 'Melbourne' are of Laura's studio... I hope you don't mind Laura! I went to Laura's studio on the weekend too for a little craft day. I was mostly in awe of all the beautiful things to look at.

published printed kanthed and quilted

So this last week has been one for finishing projects and beginning some others. Mainly finishing though! An exciting thing was to find the Melbourne University magazine in the post (being a VCA graduate) and my illustration for this article. 

The print is one that I finished the edition of last week. It is called "Dreaming Riverside" and is available at Port Jackson Press and the Printmaker gallery for now. 

The quilt is finally finished... I showed it to you in the previous post but here it is with its lovely Liberty fabric binding. 

The embroidery is something that I am starting on a piece of dyed silk. I could embroider all day if I could.... sigh...

bunting flags and explorers

so there are two projects on the go here. i have been making lots of buntings to sell. i have fallen in love with some of them and don't want to lose them! but it must be done... i must be brave!

the prints turned out okay. this is the print i have touched up with black watercolour to give me a guide as to how dark i need to etch the black... the circular window into a building is a little sketch... leading somewhere... not sure where yet.

napkin

i made this napkin for the thread den/ next wave project. i really enjoyed making this piece. i used some not so great screenprints of the houses and then i embroidered some flags into the windows and edged the napkin with left over strips of fabric. i thought the backing fabric was great beacuse it is like  picnic napkin fabric. i found this in the bottom of my material box... had forgotten about it! 

now i need to get back to work again... see you x

pieces for wales

here are some pieces that i will shortly sending to wales for a book arts exhibition that they hold annually there. i think i already mentioned it. anyway, i have been enjoying making some small textile pieces and thinking about letters and book shops and books. the next set of pieces i will make are some collages on paper with book page layouts. at the moment i am carving another stamp. this time of the same bookshops, i wanted to see what it looked like in rubber as opposed to screen printed.

the studio

i love pictures of people's studios so i thought i would endulge in showing you mine. just little snippets. i love my little wooden animals and the letter stamps. you can see i love collecting wine boxes and old cotton reels. the yellow fabric is silk dyed with tumeric. my new favorite colour!

also, some of my latest creations that will be on show in march.

we make great things

so here we begin making great things. this is a collaborative project started with aine cassidy in london. we started printing on the adana press at the end of last year and made some christmas cards that maybe some of you were lucky to receive!

keep an eye out because we'll be doing some pretty cool projects together in the near future!

also check out aine's blog. she's a very talented one!