Screenshots of the year award

The following slides are from the booklet I put together to accompany my exhibition "Inscapes" at The Lost Ones Gallery in 2016

I put together a booklet style presentation to accompany the exhibition about the processes that went into creating the works on canvas

The exhibition title refers to the works themselves, which are an interpretation of Perl’s inner landscape; a private space inhabited by her thoughts, dreams, memories and emotions. As a series, the works explore universal themes such as loss, grief, faith, nostalgia and beauty. 

1830 x 901mm. Loved working at this scale after all the teeny pieces I've been making for so long. With them my thinking has been that its an already crowded world and theres a helluva lot of art out there, it doesn't need more taking up valuable space

New work. "The body mask; a sculpturally elegant, totemic, vessel-like form. Speaking of the masks that define and protect us. Viewers engage with the work, creating meaning, through their own associations and memories." True or false? You be the judge...

End of year wrap up...well everyone else is doing it, so heres some of MY favorite 2015 pics:

Ok so the only words I got there were "make a Katetop modified from the original pattern". My takeaway was ‘make a top that bears little to no resemblance to the Kate top’….

Gold thread embroidery on painted canvas landscape.

Handcut paper,& pigment on 8"x10" deep edge gesso board because its pretty

I made a Named Clothing Keana Blouse and the Closet Case Files Carolyn PJ top, back to back, as a thorough introductory embrace of all that is piping

Embroidery on canvas, using DCM metallic embroidery thread couched with Scanfil metallic thread

Femida H. She is my close and very dear friend and I made this portrait for her 50th birthday present. We met as neighbours in London (hello, NW3) and she is an incredibly kind & loyal friend, and a gracious & generous woman. I hope I've done something nice for her here.

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Who knew?

Assemblages that go together

Bonus Vogue points for the fash/speak: Camo Glam Sport Luxe.... with a Leopard print trim. 

Yes, we are making hats now

I love this dress. I really do. Its a great dress. I studied DVF's which is all about the column of graphic print plus bare skin (sexy older skin)

I have my studio and my laptop and from here I can make anything. It's an irony not lost on me that our enforced confinement within this house has also been the greatest & most profound and sustained period of creative freedom I've ever known. 

It's so, so pretty

This then this then this.

Its not often I can track a piece from start to finish because I never really know the moment when something starts or when it finishes, but here we are

Julie is a prolific creative practitioner and a supporter of makers everywhere! 

From one encounter, years ago, with an image in a book published decades before, a documentary about mid 20th century Papua New Guinea, I became fascinated by the concept of one particular kind of mask.

Pattern Fantastique's Celestial dress was definitely my dress of the year 2014 & now here we are again, a new year a new Celestial dress by jingo.

Advice and how-to time

Another year's end, another paper doll gift to give. 

Yo, art fans, in response to many requests, selected artworks from a recent commission are now for sale to the public as limited edition prints on canvas & paper! The "Pop tribal PNG" artworks were conceived as commercial prints and are therefor available at low cost in both standard and custom dimensions; affordable art!

...I became more & more curious about Nita Jane and the originality of her fashion designs; here was a woman who came across as refreshingly left field, a pattern making designer with a keen eye for the nuances of fit and ease, deftly combined with sharp cuts, bold drapes and clever construction.  

The new sewing pattern by a new designer, the Celestial dress is the most best dress I've ever made, for serious. Its got it all going on; style, comfort, practicality and a uniquely modest, (one is a Lady) contemporary, eminently versatile design. Yah, I like it.

One should be like throwing tv's out of hotel room windows one is so rock n roll. Frocktails 2014!

Working working working making making making. It's been a full one year since this my website has been online & the work that has been generated by the simple task of collating & publishing a post every two weeks or so is amazing, to me. 

This post is few words & all studio progress photos. Behold:

My sewing has up till now been a very quiet solo hobby, but since I started this artworkerprojects, I've discovered the happy sisterhood of sewingland! There are lots of fabulous people out there sewing most of their own clothes, just like me! And I'm joining in now! And I never join groups! But sewingland is fun and here is my part of Shorts On The Line August shorts appreciation society. And I will try to not be justifying posting about "just" sewing ever again.

Granny Corner, thank heavens for Granny and the Corner. I've never called anyone Granny before, except for me, I'm my own bloody Granny when it comes to making that's not artyness.  I repair to my womanly occupations when the going gets confused/lost/tired/uninspired or seethingly bitter and twisted and kinda stalled, in my studio. I've been liking it here a lot over here for a few months now. 

At the moment, we're at home. Granny style. Sewing and...baking and...yeah, watching way heaps of tv on my laptop with headphones. Mmmmm headphones. 
And I really need to use some stash fabric, my storage facility is scaring me.

I recently submitted a proposal for "Colourful Decorative Abstract Panels", to suit a specific client brief. The commission would involve producing several large-ish panels for the public areas of a new residential development...The designs for this are along a similar vein to another commission I undertook for a project in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, two years ago...

Huzzah. The last week of the fantastic Me Made May and hasnt it been fun? I made some lovely new friends, Instagram matchmaking of lady sewists around the world! 

Hooray! Week three of wearing a self-made piece of clothing every day and I'm equal parts tired of thinking about what I'll wear every morning & fascinated to find out how this challenge plays out over the next two weeks. I'll need to find some new combinations of my me-mades & work out some new matchy matchies. Interesting. (To me.)

So its week two and nary a problem with wearing self-made gear...and I've been quite surprised at how many of my clothes I do make myself. I just don't prioritise my self made gear & I am beginning to see that the clothes I make myself more accurately portray me as me & they are something to be proud of. They are often my more adventurous tops, pants and dresses, things I need to make because I cant find them out there or they just strike me as being a happy combination of fabric, design and purpose.

So this is a progressive post for Week One of the MMM14 challenge, in which I'll document the days I've worn me-made clothes. My pledge was to wear at least three (or more - like everything, IMO, more is always better) made-by-me items of clothing per week. 

This is "... the popular online me-made/self-stitched challenge which asks sewers/knitters/crocheters/refashioners to wear hand-created clothing every day for a month." I'm in! 

Gifs gifs gifs.  One ADORES them. Just like one adores fashion & these are all flashy & lightey

Christmas is coming, now now now. The frightening onward march of time that leads inexorably to actually having to sort out gifts for like, everyone, at Christmas, is NOW.

So I've made a few gifts with fabric, paint & lace applique which should cover most of the girl portion of my gift list, PHEW.

So as far as Christmas DIY's go, this one is acceptably anti-horrid (seriously, what is WITH that red & green?? It's just weird.) and most importantly, cheap. Granny Corner approves of cheap. Also jewellery, GC really, really believes in that.

Time to bring all the bits I've made together: the diorama/gallery style displays and the maquette/mini sculptures. Results!

THIS chapter is about making the jolly little balsa wood sculpture pieces to inhabit my dioramas. And this is a really interesting chapter too.

Dioramas are uncharted territory for me, but from the beginning of my research for this project, I've been amazed at the creative possibilities of this whole subject and amazed that I haven't investigated it before. There is so much in this!

Maquettes - models of sculptures - are great. Mini sculptures, what's not to love?

I have this idea to make mini sculpture galleries. I'll tell you all about it, just look at the pretty pictures below and read on. It's really interesting, promise! ...

Arrgh, these eye glasses! It's all about the eye glasses now & I get the feeling that they're just not meant to be soooo hard. Must, must, must make them work! Can't I just find some little teeny Le Corbusier glasses ferchrissake??....

So I need a new handy bag, for the carrying around of my laptop. And I have taken a fancy to one in the style of a "well-known-fashion-house". Of course I'm going to make it myself! Sheesh!  But I'll do mine the artworker way: labour intensive custom stencil pattern & embroidery, yay. And that's before I even make the bag!

It's a very simple design and I'm most certainly not the first woman to hanker after one of 
these handy bags...

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Wondering how to gild with imitation gold leaf? Here I'll take you through gilding a canvas, ready for use as the base/background for an artwork...

Making a picture on a gilded canvas base, 

Sounds promising...everything looks better with gold, I've always thought. It's just so shiny. Apologies for the portrait subject content. Yes yes, me again. This one's a present for my Mum's 70th birthday. And if I'm going to do this kind of thing, of course I'm gonna choose the most flattering pictures ever! Sheesh! 

Still in progress of this series of three customised My Little Pony, is My Little I. M. Pei.

He is bald, of course, but wears a natty suit & signature glasses.

The first pony to be customized in this series of three, is My Little Bob Dylan.

The second completed piece in this series of three. Me! Hilarious!

My Little Pony. Sure you know it!

Making a customised pony? Oh yeah. 

 ...It's a whole sub-culture out there people, do try & keep up. 

See, as I'm a model-maker/sculptor at heart, this project was an irresistible lure as I found myself embroiled in Pony-world via two unexpected sources...

Many screens have I made, many. There is something irresistible about screens and they always seem to be necessary, just to have. Sure they're handy as room dividers, but to be honest, I've rarely seen them actually used specifically for that purpose. Screens are, in my experience, primarily a decorative accessory and unique one-offs, extremely customisable;

Now this is a pretty dog. Her name is "Puppy" and she's a 4 year old Pug/Jack Russell cross. Two artworks were commissioned by her owners; one digital print on canvas (for installation in busy Architect's office) and one large oil painting for the client's home.

 Paper Dolls: make them stand up. Here's a tutorial on making my flat folding stand...

Last post showed making the folders themselves. Now, onto furnishing them with the cool gear...

Paper Dolls in stylish folders, containing the doll on a folding stand as well as all their clothes! Many designer outfits! Yay!

Herewith begineth my Granny Corner.

First up, me 'n Daphne Guinness! There will be many ! in this post!