January’s journal quilt Looking from my window down to the Severn, I can see the river has flooded onto the fields in several places. I attached all the pieces with bondaweb. The fabric is all hand dyed, with some addition painting and the trees stamped on. February 6th I went for a walk on one...
Author: Cherry Hirsch
Lino printing at West Dean College
I had heard so much about West Dean and seized the chance to go there. The course, with Dale Devereux Barker, was brilliant. We started by using resists and stencils on the lino, which was first inked up, and then printed using a press. My favourite effect was obtained by removing the resist or stencil...
Monthly Journal Quilts 1
I have decided to make a small journal quilt each month, inspired by whatever is around me. This is the first one I made for November, but I wasn’t totally satisfied , so did another: I was struck by how much colour there is still around this year so late in the season, lots of...
Colour, Mark and Composition
I did a weekend course at Hawkwood College, just down the road from me, with Gizella Warburton at the end of October, entitled Colour, Mark and Composition. I didn’t know what to expect, but as I had had to cancel other courses I had booked earlier in the year, I thought it would help me...
Back at work at last in the new studio
I’ve finally got round to bringing this blog up to date. It was lovely to start work again and the first thing I did was an A5 sketchbook, just experimenting with different techniques, inspired by one Linda Kemshall was doing based on her own garden. Here are just a few pages from it. Title page:...