gone rustic

05/06/2026

Two of my textile art pieces are on display this weekend - ‘Home is Here’ (2026) and ‘Wheels of Time’ (2014). Planning to see the exhibition this morning! Studio 5 at The Bay of Fires Winter Arts Festival.

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04/06/2026

Kookaburra inspiration

Two feathers found on the ground, left by a kookaburra who visits regularly! He also had a mate last summer and we could see their home from our back verandah, in a hollow tree near the creek. I stitched the pair in flight using a fly stitch after attaching the feathers, with foliage worked in backstitch and detached chain, and (appropriately) feather stitch! I added a few grasses and wildflowers as finishing touches. The background was collaged weeks ago, incorporating naturally dyed and transfer-printed cloth. The last image is of a stitched collage of mine which includes the feather in photo 3.

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03/06/2026

Baby wipes become fragments of … weathered walls … time … decay. Gelliprints on my cleanup wipes. There will be more!

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02/06/2026

Roll off sheets - tutorial coming up! I’ve been using recycled brown paper packaging for my roll off papers. This week I decided to use them for backgrounds for new work! Two more layers later and this is the result. Earth pigments mixed with a natural binder.

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01/06/2026

Why save baby wipes after a messy gelli printing session? The answer: instead of adding to the landfill problem, stitch and layer them into textile or mixed media art! All of these examples from recent years feature baby wipes given to me by an artist friend who had used them for cleaning up after a painting session. Now I’ve got a stack of my own to use!

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31/05/2026

Mini-tutorial coming up! My experiments with earth pigments are consolidating nicely. Available after Saturday’s video.

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30/05/2026

Still gelli printing; still inspired by the surrounding landscape. More in my latest video! Link below.
https://youtu.be/NlftNpcVvcE?si=t6ECEBFeqG5buZ_X

29/05/2026

Next video screening tonight - on my studio table 102! Available from 7 pm Hobart time.

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28/05/2026

Red for Courage - update coming up in Saturday’s video! Available from 7 pm Hobart time.

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27/05/2026

A few more highlights from the batch of gelli printing I did the other day! Casuarina, fishbone fern and eucalyptus; stencil and corrugated cardboard; earth pigments with a natural binder.

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