Hello. I’m from Western Australia. I’m a mixed media and textile artist. I’d like to connect to anyone here who would like to post and receive mail art to me? I’m not sure how we go about this to…Continue
Started by Penny Reinecke. Last reply by Olivia Arrow May 10, 2019.
It spans mixed media, collage,paper and textile, it is multidisciplinary, crosses the boundaries and fuses 2-D with 3-D art,sculpture and wall art , wearable art and adornment. I love also how an…Continue
Started by Dr. Maie Yanni. Last reply by Miranda Vissers Dec 23, 2014.
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Nice to see you back Adamandia...
You're welcome on both fronts, Sarah. I used to do a lot of fabric-related things years ago and am just getting back to them again now. I was a seamstress for a few years (professionally) and I worked in a fabric store where everyone spent most of their wages on fabric (lol). Also, my Mom was an artist and teacher (at local colleges and art schools) who taught fabric printing and I picked up a lot from her classes. Molas were one of the few things I introduced to her, though. I discovered them when I was doing Anthropology at UCB. The Phoebe Hearst Museum on the Berkeley campus has some amazing handwork artifacts, really inspiring.
In this case, Amy, I have decided to do my pages using canvas throughout because my Mom, who recently died, left me a lot of beautiful high-end canvas (she was a painter) and I want to use some of the materials she left me in my work to keep her close and to have her along for the ride, so to speak. Of course, it means that the work is easier as well, in many ways, since the canvas is such a pliable but consistent substrate. When I have worked in fabric before, I never used canvas - I see now that it's a brilliant material for something like a book (!). Should have realized it years ago. lol
Love your work, Sarah, and it's very different (which from me is a big compliment!). Always great to see your work Amy. :D
I'm in a fabric book round robin right now - 10 artists, each making their own book and each of us does a couple of pages for each other's books. It's really fun and also challenging (in a good way). I've just finished several things - the most recent two are a quilt page and a mola page. Attached are photos. If any of you aren't familiar with molas, please google them and see what wonderful directions people have taken using the technique! It's from a traditional quilt-like technique used by Kuna women to decorate their clothing (the Kuna are native Panamanians). Check out the Wikipedia article on molas - it's pretty good.
Blue Ridge Mountains quilt page:
Undersea Mola page
Sarah! I like the funky cows. I can believe it took a long long time. Just did some crochet around a piece of postcard paper... pffffff munk's work. But nice result.
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