Blog
Hello and welcome to my Blog especially for textile artists, combining inspiration, personal growth, creativity and design. All the good things!
Ambience
Think about the ambience – the tone or spirit we surround ourselves with while we work, and the tools that can, surprisingly, help nourish and nurture our workflow.
The White Rabbit
Your work should be littered with rabbit-holes and Wonderland moments – those precious times when for whatever reason, we make a mistake!
Fresh Eyes
Sometimes, just sometimes – and it is rare – someone comes along and pinpoints a problem you know’s there, but you just can’t find the solution for. You just need fresh eyes.
Just One Stitch – That’s All It Takes
A lot of people think they need a diversity of stitch to create magical, textural textile art, but that’s just not so. All it takes is just one stitch!
Christmas Wishes 2020
We all know what kind of year it’s been, particularly if you live in Australia – but, for me, this Christmas wish post is about two things – looking forward and being thankful.
Find Your Whalesong
Like turning on a switch, that light-bulb of clarity appears. But it’s in that world of shadowy, contemplative darkness we all need to turn from time to time, to enrich and renew our own whale songs, honouring the work we want and need to create.
Dance with a Deadline to Push Your Work Forward
Dance with a deadline and re-kindle that passion and energy for your textile and fibre art.
The Mantra: Draw, Refine, Stitch, Repeat
Creating textile and fibre art doesn’t need to be complicated, quite the reverse. Just look at it one process at a time, like learning the steps to a new dance or baking your first souffle.
Finding Zen
Routine: drill, practice, procedure, pattern. Ritual: ceremony, protocol, order, custom. Zen: the value of meditation and intuition. Even the most aspirational artist experiences challenges, so what exactly is it that gets you through your day?. That daily grind...
The Benefit of 3
This is totally relatable to the way we produce art, particularly if we want it to sing with personality.
The Design Equation
We’re all inspired by something – that’s step one, but I think it’s that next transitional step of actually applying inspiration to create a design for textile or fibre art, that seems to obstruct the wheels of progress. What to do?
Dynamism: How To
How about some ideas and inspiration for creating Dynamism or a sense of energy and movement in design work for new textile and fibre art?
Dynamism
There’s one thing I want from a piece of art and that’s excitement. I want to feel reverberating, unrestrained energy, not just glimpse it. I want my eyes to gallivant all over the work, not just puddle in one place, if at all. And that’s exactly what Dynamism’s should do.
The Attitude of Learning
The skill to learn is an attitude – the attitude of interpreting information to your wants and needs, not someone else’s. It’s the measure of being able to improve, expand and refine techniques and ideas into your own artistic voice.
You’re Invited to PatternPlay
PatternPlay encourages originality and individuality in design using beautiful lines and your own creativity. You’re invited!