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Getting out There – 9th May 2022

May 9, 2022 annwyndean1

This is an image of my stand at Printfest, Ulveston in the Southern Lake District.

I had kept a low profile over the last couple of years and in many ways it was daunting to go off, sleep in a strange bed and be amongst lots of people, but I’m pleased to say that all went well and that it was a wonderful event and so busy, I feel as if I’m only just recovering.

I did enjoy myself, with lots of lovely conversations with both visitors and fellow printmakers.

I always take along a textile piece from my collection and this time I incorporated into the stand design, the front of a gentleman’s waistcoat from the middle of the C18th. I felt that it helped visitors to make the connections between the original and my interpretations.

And here all 44 printmakers are together just before it all it all started. Image by the Official Photographer.

Next it’s North Yorkshire Open Studios, the first two weekends in June, it’s an event that takes place in artists studios throughout the largest county. Do take a look here. http://www.nyos.org.uk

Come along if you can.

Book Making, Printing, Uncategorized

Slowly, slowly – 21st March 2022

March 21, 2022 annwyndean1

This post follows directly on from my last blog, there seems to be a feeling of hovering anxiety that clouds everyday life at the moment, so I am finding comfort in being quiet and slow.

My silver fragments were dry enough to create the books I had planned in my last post, see here. “Precious Fragments I’ has single prints on each page.

‘Precious Fragments II’, has five per page

I printed off my notebook inspired plates and for the moment I have put them aside in order to give the ideas raised by them some more thought. See here

This pheasant was keen to see what I was doing through the studio window, we have male pheasants strutting down the garden from the fields at the top and then going back up via my next door neighbours garden!

Embroidery, Printing, Uncategorized

A Mixed Bag – 6th December 2021

December 6, 2021 annwyndean1

There has been too much weather around and it has influenced daily life and another week of rain is forecast.

Several years ago our son, as a student, went to India and he brought back these bags for me, a lovely present. They are made from old silk saris with metal thread tambour work embroidery. I just adore the peacock, as shown above and which had been hidden in the folds of the gathered bag.

I had been thinking of undoing a couple of them and perhaps using them as book covers or something else. The snow gave me the opportunity to sit down and unpick them. It took ages, each of the four layers was machine stitched to another and the bags were constructed with French seams.

Now that they are undone, leaving me with some beautiful pieces of embroidered silk, I can ponder my next step, but at the moment I don’t know!

In my ‘Vulnerable to Alteration’ series I had considered C18th woven silk cloth, so I thought that I would turn my attention to the yards and yards of Dresden whitework, (so called as that is where high quality embroidery originated from), which adorned the dresses as cuffs and collar frills. This is fine whitework to cotton muslin which was worked both professionally and domestically throughout the C18. It comprised of satin stitch, pulled work and buttonhole stitches so creating flowing Rococo floral designs. The cotton muslin was imported from India.

I had a book design in mind from my experimental sessions a few weeks ago and I began to draw and plan a printing plate with lots of rubbing out.

The design is now complete and I will begin to construct the printing plate over the next few days.