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