Lesley Magwood Fraser's Blog – May 2012 Archive (8)

Sue Hobbs and Karin Greenwood both live in my neck of the woods and I often bump into them at the local supermarket, but it is always a treat to receive mail from them.

Karin's quirky people so cleverly painted using all kinds of media, and Sue's lovely fabric work are their latest offerings. Thanks gals, I love them.…

Not sure what bei means, but Svenja's work is always quiet and contemplative... thanks Svenja! I love the vintage photos that people include in their work, these kids seem to be doing something in the bushes!  I think they are picking grapes. What are they doing Svenja?…

One of a few pieces from Diane over the past couple of months - Name, Language, Population, with a nice spidery drawing on the left side... Thanks Diane, your work always pleases me! Something winging its way to you at the moment.

Months ago Thom Courcelle sent me this crocheted lime juice bottle (who needs Absolut bottle art when Thom has his crochet hook out?) I had been greedily eyeing other IUOMA members who had received Thom's woolly wonders, so was delighted when this arrived for me! Life got in the way but I knew that I just had to share this lemony piece with you all one day. Thom says it's neither lemon nor lime, either way, I am CHUFFED.…

This is another of Marie's incredible pieces - images, words and beautiful paper making up a wonderful statement about A Line. I think Paul Klee wrote "a line is a dot that has gone for a walk".... Marie's lines are all over the place... a real or imaginary mark demarcating a specified section, the battle area closest to the enemy, a series of person, especially from one family, a cable, a rope, a clothesline and on and on and on - Paul Klee's line wasn't as adventurous as Marie's. The…

 Marie hasn't forgotten me either lately, sending me 3 wonderful pieces over the past 2 months. As always they are amazing works, the first being a Marie-layered image surrounded by her higgledypiggledy stitching (I think Marie may have got an F in Needlework class....) (sorry Marie! my stitching did too) and attached with her FAB floaty Japanese paper on a swatch of denim fabric. The enclosed note said it was to cheer me up which it sure did! Wishes from Japan... and the envelope is a…

Over the past few months Nancy has faithfully been sending me these wonderful pieces, even though I have not had time to reciprocate, so here's a massblog of them in all their glory.... each shows Nancy's inimitable style which is becoming more and more professional with each piece, so recognisable now, as are her envelopes. Nancy even sent me a piece of "toast" and a watercolour of apples, methinks Nancy thinks I need nourishment... her work nourishes my soul for sure! I even received an…

David is most insistent that this is not art, I know it is just the backing board for his lovely watercolour of a startled looking woman who has just had a rocketship fly past her ear, although it is her hairstyle that concerns him the most. And as David has put so much work into the backing board I have to say it has become part of the art work... OK so it is Larry who has reservations about the hairstyle, not David. Larry thinks her sideburns could cut like a scimitar, with curves like a…