leaf lace love

love working with the imperfections
inherent in leaves
off the ground

and adding old lace
beauty of hand made
beauty of nature

spending time
enjoying creation

the Hoveas are flowering

in the garden
its a shrub that one doesn't notice until it flowers
then it puts on a spectacular display

I tried some leaf prints the other day
added line
added some colour

decided to get physical with the mallet

amazing amount of colour from the flowers

this one is quite subtle
smashed onto previously printed paper
now I'm off to google others' smashing techniques

Addendum

2 minutes with google led me back to my bookshelf to 

India Flint's book "Eco Colour" and the 

Hapa Zome technique.

woven patches

70cm x 17cm
just wanted to play with little woven patches

printing with plants - a series

the original print on watercolour paper

with the addition of inktense pencil

the finished picture
lace formality of the drawing room
overlaid on imagery of the bush flora

True Colours ... Faded

True Colours
... hanging in the Palm House exhibition -
between work by Diane Groenewegen on the left and
Linda Baranov (the red one) on the right

Faded
... hanging in the Palm House exhibition
with light by Anne Schmitz
pink on the right by Lyn Baxter
yellow on the left by Debbie Achurch
dress by Lynne Britten
grey in the background by Val James

Borrowed from the past

making a feature of seams and edges
inspired by Karen Ruane

gum leaves and lace

This is one of my recent pieces that will be on sale at the

ATASDA exhibition and sale

Future ... Past

Palm House

Sydney Botanic Gardens

August 14 - 26 2014 

a different enrichment

this one has stab stitch
weaving into weaving
borrowed embroidery
lace

and the detail

enriching the woven cloth surface

"plain" surface
with stab stitches

and with machine embroidered leaves and lace

cloth weaving

a large weaving
eco dyed silk

the previous one was too big
its been cut into 5
this one has some stab stitch so far
reminds me of an old Australian wagga
(not that those were made in silk)

this one is basted using Jude Hill's
magical invisible basting