Blog
Hello and welcome to my Blog especially for textile artists, combining inspiration, personal growth, creativity and design. All the good things!
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!
Design Development
My design’s finished and I’m happy. It’s animated and full of life. I love working this way. Making mistakes, filling the whole page, making do and having confidence in the process. That’s what design development is all about.
Signs and Symbols
It’s signs and symbols in the artwork I find so fascinating – that hidden-in-plain-sight allegory. Now that’s clever.
Drawing: From Design to Reality
For me, art is all about engaging an audience and assisting that interaction the best way I can. Looking at the manifold ways other artists engage their audiences, opens other doors to imagination and creativity.
Grow Your Own Garden
Now you have the best possible set of conditions for a magnificent garden. Trust in yourself and allow time for all your endeavours to blossom and bear fruit. Setbacks happen. Pick yourself up and continue. Positive change is a result of these little challenges.
On My Desk: The Subversive Stitch
This book offers well-supported explanations surrounding the premise for ‘the feminine ideal’ and its link with needlework, from medieval times to the twentieth century.
Technology
This greasy tech pole has had me climbing and sliding. But I stuck in there and committed to learning what I need to know – not necessarily what people want to teach me. It seems to be working.