It's been ages since I have last posted new work ... but it's certainly not because I have been idle. The winter has been full of fibre art experiments, workshops and dabblings . . . and now that spring is underway, I feel that I would like to post some photos of a piece that I am working on right now.
This is a small art quilt that will not see life as a wall hanging, but as a book cover ... I will post more on that, and final photos, once it has been presented to the organization that commissioned it. In order to make this as durable as possible, I had to reject some of the techniques and fibres that I might have liked to use in this piece. Because it will be handled (although not heavily) I felt that I should use woven fabric and stitching to achieve the look I wanted. The fabric is all hand-dyed or hand-painted ... some of it by me, some by others.
The background design is a slightly abstract landscape of our beautiful Shuswap Lake and the tree has been created as a tree-of-life, with the roots going down into the ground and the branches and leaves reaching to heaven. The tree has some limbs that have been cut off at some time, but the other branches are still carrying on and bringing life to the myriad leaves, represented by hand stitching in a variety of green threads.
There is still more work to be done on it, but I am pleased with how it is developing.
