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Hemp and Driftwood

My driftwood collection is enormous and it's been expanding for the last 20 years. One day I knew I would know what to do with it ........ and so recently I started to embellish bits of driftwood with crochet in a beautiful hemp yarn from a local shop.

These pieces will be on exhibition and for sale in the studio in July. I plan to have my first exhibition in the studio with my friend and very talented painter, Phil Barron. 

Photographed in the late afternoon sun.

The post, Beach Detritus, has some photos of the driftwood collections.

 

Tangential Tinkerings

Busily working away at items for the Entropy Collection, however, as expected I veer off on tangents to try new things......

 

Driftwood and bones with hemp crocheted details. Two sculptures by Jade Pegler in the middle.

One of my first wonky baskets and a couple of driftwood/crochet pieces.

The Diatom Collection has expanded.

 

 

Focus on the Entropy Collection

The sun is back, then it's gone and it's still very wet. I guess that's why it's called the rainy season!

In the studio:

A little 10 x 10 cm embroidery of nodules.

I've been working on the "Entropy collection". An expanded version will be exhibited at the Tweed River Regional Art Gallery at the end of the year. It will be exhibited as an installation pinned to the wall, approximately 4 x 1.5m in size. This exhibition has now expanded into a full solo exhibition and I'm trying to bring various pieces together to form a cohesive whole. A public program, as part of the exhibition, is also being organized.

Time to drive to the studio.............not!!

Lot's of rain again. The wet season has started in earnest.

My little car next to what used to be sugar cane fields......... now a lake.

Time to head back home.

I've been flooded in for five days and getting cabin-fever.

I can see your tracks

 

  

Laura Veirs - "I can see your tracks", (via Des Brimborions ) 

In the studio today

Woops!! I've been tinkering with the banner up above and background colours etc. Bear with me for a little while until I get it all looking fresh and smart.

Other tinkerings:

a small plastic bag vessel with chubby thighs.

its innards

a beautiful and delicate visitor

a small empty space on my table...... a rare event

A busy day today.

Bright-eyed and Bushy-tailed

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday and feel bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready for 2012. I'm back in the studio this week after a visit to Sydney, Christmas celebrations and visitors to my little red house. Feels good.

 some doodly fun

with thread

a petri dish doodle

and a slime mould experiment. Not really!

abundance from the garden

my first banana crop.

Good news: The ' Entropy Collection' will be exhibited in the Tweed River Regional Gallery this November. I'll be scaling it up to approx. 5.0 x 1.5m.

 

Helen Frankenthaler

December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011

Tweed River Art Gallery Christmas Market

We're having a market at our very beautiful regional gallery, the Tweed River River Gallery. Selling their work will be 14  local artisans (including myself). Come and join us.

 

Christmas stars and a giant crochet hook

The elves have been busy in the studio crocheting star ornaments. Made using vintage patterns, hemp and jute.

I'm hoping the elves will have finished this giant doily when I return tomorrow morning.