Shapes...

Experimenting with drawing shapes for a wall hanging. It didn't eventuate but I'm still quite taken with these shapes. 

Just keep making....

(detail image of another unfinished work I must go back to!)

I've developed a bad habit of boiling the kettle and never making the tea. sadface.

gone but not forgotten

Work in progress.. this piece is taking far too long to complete, I feel as though I have left it behind and moved onto other things. I must complete it... and all the other pieces I've left behind.

Reverso II (gusto!)

Inky lines and neon angles. 

This one is for sale in my Etsy shop (almost don't want to part with it).

And the reverse side which is, again, holding my attention with great gusto!

Diggin' wet on wet and these shapes.

I love this little corner of this practice piece. I adore 

the lines 

the angles

the hand drawn 

the intersection of lines

the thick

the thin

the dark 

the light

the compartments

and the repetition.

(intersection & compartments)

O!

O! lines...

direction.

direction

grids

lines

arrows

components

restricted

ordered

inks

hands

intuition

presence

reverso.

Reverse side of the work. 

Amazing. Must do something with this pattern. 

Excitement!

Painting and Embroidery.

Intuitive painting with ink.

Embroidery in response to shapes. 

Get into it!

new new new things!

slowly but surely my love comes into fruition!

ink and embroidery..

obsessed. 

more to come..

of course. 

new drawings...

I've been experimenting with new ways of working lately. At the moment, I'm addicted to drawing images, tearing them out and then arranging their elements to achieve a satisfactory composition. I'm also interested in exploring and expanding my drawing style. currently, I seem to be drawing abstract geometric patterns with lots of linework. It's cathartic and spontaneous as individual images aren't planned and therefore no two end up the same. I'd like to continue with this intuitive style of drawing but also enlarge its scale to see how it works REALLY BIG!

Gray Moments

Gray Moments

Paper Bag Drawing...

I have been feeling remarkably creative lately. I have been looking at objects in a different way and have been collecting things that would usually be discarded like envelopes and shopping bags. 

I've also started to draw on some of the paper I have been collecting. I love drawing on used paper bags, envelopes, butchers paper and other pre-loved materials! The folds, creases, tears, and stains add to the work by informing my lines and giving the piece another dimension. Working on preloved paper  is also much less intimidating than a new piece of watercolour paper (which will undoubtedly come later). Moreover, used paper is so very cheap, which is always a positive thing!

Anyway, here are some images of a drawing I completed recently on a used shopping bag. 

 I'm really enjoying the free style of this line work; I gripped my pen like a toddler and went with the flow! It was drawn quickly and intuitively without much thought. It's a very cathartic process!

 Detail

Detail. This introduction of colour harbours potential!

COFA Annual 2011

Hello!

I thought I'd kick off my blog with a summary of my artworks from throughout my degree at the College of Fine Arts (COFA) in Sydney, Australia. 

Studying textiles within a Fine Arts degree enabled me to explore so many wondrous materials and techniques! Here is a small selection of my favourite works in which I have utilised wire, cotton, and wool with crochet, colour discharge and scorching (playing with fire is ALWAYS fun!)

Armour 

Crocheted copper wire 

Filtered Thoughts 

Discarded coffee cups, cotton, silk, embroidery thread, glue

Filtered Thoughts (detail)

Disease

Crocheted woollen yarn

Untitled

Woollen blanket, nails and blowtorch (used in making)

Untitled (detail) 

Head here for more artworks by myself and many amazing graduates from the class of 2011!