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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.

The Moobah Show

The long-legged, jodpur-wearing Grand Champion of the Murwillumbah Show.

The curious Reserve Champion.

Our local produce.

Yummy cakes.......... note padlock.

The sweet smelling roses.

The gerberas.

and last but not least............ Mr. Potato Head.

Corals and Prints in m(art), Brisbane

Last week I drove into Brisbane to deliver my prints, corals and greeting cards to m(art), the retail face of Craft Queensland. This has meant spending many hours crocheting and felting corals and printing linoprints. I've had the weekend to rest..... aaahhhh!!

The felting process...... friction, hot water and dishwashing liquid. Preferably done wearing pyjamas and accompanied by many cups of tea.