I'm Back

I feel whole again
my computer died many weeks ago and the wonderful technician was able to save most of the info in it's brains and transfer it over to my new laptop but unfortunately I've lost all of my email contacts and that is a slow process to collect them again.
I was also having some troubles getting my blogger dash board up so I could post and I just found it, so I don't feel so much in limbo, now all I have to do is get Twitter sorted out again and I'll be right.

I've been very busy while I've been away from here, a quick trip to Brisbane to work the Textile Show, home for a week then up to Sydney to work the Quilt and Craft Show then back into the sculpture studio to finish off pieces ready for my exhibition in just over a week.
Today is my first day at home for 2 weeks so finally unpacking the suitcase that's been on the lounge all week and trying to wash with it now raining and getting very cold again which isn't helping the paint dry on the boxes I have sitting patiently on the table.
Anyway I must get back to work as I still have a lot of fibre work to finish off, maybe a cuppa will help warm up the hands.

Here is the invitation to my exhibition, would be lovely to see you there, if you're not a local Wollongong is a beautiful place to visit where the glorious escarpment meets the ocean, the train trip down from Sydney is spectacular especially if you sit on the left as the train line hugs the coast.

more sculptures

just home from Art School and a successful 2 days in the sculpture studio,
these are a few companion pieces to go with last weeks work





don't think I'll get to many more pieces out of my box of bits, I'll have to move onto something new

this weeks round up

I've had a very busy week at Art school and at home
At Art school I made 2 pieces, the first one called Skating Man is just a bit of whimsy that I just had to make, again I was making pieces from the box of bits that I had and the bottle opener with the face on it was just calling out to be made into a person and when I saw the curved piece of wood I then new I had to put him on a skate board

again wood off cuts and a bolt from my box of bits

tonight I've finished the next stage of my tree stump, I have spent the past week needle felting with a single needle the wool rovings to the base


back to art school in the morning, another couple of days playing in the sculpture studio and a couple of days of looking at the tree stump on the kitchen bench while doing everyday stuff and working out what to do next

Stumped

I'm doing everything BUT what I'm supposed to be doing, now I'm writing my blog.
I'm working on my "tree stump" for my exhibition and boy has it got me stumped, I look at what's sitting on my kitchen bench and I can see the finished piece in my minds eye but getting the 2 things together is not a happening thing, plus I've had a headache all day so that's making me grumpy and the stump not cooperating isn't helping.

this is how it started out in the sculpture studio at art school a few weeks ago

then I made a base with hessian so I have something to attach stuff to

I have needle felted wool roving to a large piece of brown stretch denim that I have been stitching down to the Hessian today and then I'll starting the long process of shaping around the roots then needle felting by hand to embellish the trunk but now I think it's time to start cooking dinner - see another diversion..............

A good days work

I had a very productive day at art school yesterday after having two weeks off I went into the sculpture studio raring to go, here are the 3 little pieces I made, still using bits from an assorted box of stuff I bought at a Trash n Treasure market last year and a couple of wood off cuts,
I'm very happy with my out come, what do you think?

Soap stone pieces

Here are a few of my latest carved soap stone pieces, have a thing about holes at the moment

assemblage

have been busy in the studio at Art School and at home in the fibre studio and trying to not loose my days sitting at the computer, so I'm sorry I haven't posted for a while

here are two companion pieces that I've been working on in the sculpture studio this term, I think they are finished - but maybe not..........
they don't have a name as yet, any ideas




a close up of the curvy bits