A journal where I share my adventures developing a food forest based on permaculture principles. I also share my love of knitting here. For my life as a textile artist follow me at lesleyturnerart.com
Friday, June 14, 2013
Saturday, June 1, 2013
New Work for Briding Waters Exhibition
Saturday, May 25, 2013
When you get paid, is it still Graffiti?
Monday, May 20, 2013
Learning to Multi-project
This past month I have been working on 3 very different projects - at the same time!
I don't know when it happened but I have learnt to have more than one project on the go whereas before I found I could focus on only one at a time.
Here is what I have been working on - knitting rectangles...
...and making a form for a 3D work.
Not only can I handle it, it feels exciting to be moving each one along. It gives me percolation time and incubation time for each one so I know what needs to be done next. Now stalling time is minimal.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Memorial Art
After the 2 recent collapses of Asian clothing factories resulting in loss of life, I was reminded again of walking through the downtown core of Christchurch in New Zealand this past summer.
On an empty lot where a church had stood there was an art installation of white painted chairs sitting on artificial grass.
The sign tells of the many times empty chairs have been given meaning by artists: Vincent van Gogh, the site of the Oklahoma Bombing, the NY 9/11 site. . .
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Cut Flower Bed
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Signs of Spring in Victoria
I have been living in Victoria long enough now to recognise the distinctive signs of spring.
The resident geese arrived back after their winter in the south, somewhere.
The bulby things a friend gave me, saying they were peonies, that I think I planted all up side down last winter, all came up anyway.
Friday, May 3, 2013
Life Happenings
A new lot of work is boxed up and on its way out to the world.
I spent most of a day wrapping the work, making boxes to fit, printing address labels and sealing them up before taking them down to the Greyhound depot.
They are on their way to Winnipeg for the first Articulated Materials: Bridging Waters showing in Canada. The exhibition will be in Cre8ery Gallery during the Embroideres Association of Canada annual conference in Winnipeg.
The exhibition will include work by Material Girls from the UK.
After the marathon to finish and package up the work was over it was time to go outside to see what had been happening in my abscence.
I discovered we have an area of camas lily - a valuable find because it is not as common as it used to be when the bulbs were a carbohydrate food source for the First Nations peoples.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Synesthesia #2
I decided to go with low intensity colours.
Next step is sampling. I sample only enough to see if is giving the effect I want.
I really want to use the luscious piece of patterned silk but it is not working.
So I got out fabric paints to darken the value and to make the pattern less dominant.
This is the simple ground I decided to work on.
I sewed loose, wavy lines over the whole ground.
Then I added fabric strips starting in the top quarter of the ground.
A large open zig zag over each fabric strip gave the dynamic feeling I wanted.
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