This is something I have been wanting to try for a long time and then I found an online workshop by Lynda Heines which gave me all the information I could possibly need. The principle requirement is to use mainly non-pure colours, because the whole idea of ice dyeing is to make the colours split...
Category: Work from Courses and Workshops
Experimental drawing for mono print
Last month I attend the above 5 day workshop with Caroline Wendling at West Dean. Caroline is very keen on allowing chance to play its part, so we started off by picking blind a one inch square cut from a larger image. We had to choose 5 mark making tools one of which had to...
Being (t)here with India Flint
At the end of August I had the wonderful experience of attending a workshop with India Flint at “les Soeurs Anglaises” (lots more photos on their site) in France. I have long admired India’s work and read her books, but nothing compares with actually being at a workshop with her! The other attendees were all lovely...
Book 5 – Sea Current
I loved the idea of making a shell book and, like Ineke, I found my shells on eBay. I wanted the book to have the feel of following the current of the sea, so I printed a series of fishes running through each page, using fabrics that reinforced this idea and adding stitching which I...
Book 4 – Bound with words
A new book, focussing on words around a theme. It took a while for me to find my theme, but as the garden grew more and more parched before the recent rains, the word ‘water’ kept creeping into my consciousness. The pages are in sequence and reflect my thoughts around water and our relationship with...