tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72627233637527448602024-03-05T00:05:37.503-08:00FORAGEForage: to collect, search for,
rummage, to gather, scrounge,
fossick, find out,
to gleanDebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-52942495289984919682015-08-06T01:18:00.001-07:002015-08-06T01:18:42.363-07:00Connection, Place, Mind, Body and Paintbrush
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Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-76781204168269572982015-06-24T04:49:00.001-07:002015-06-24T04:49:33.712-07:00The SHACK now....living more simply in Tasmania<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Coat of mid grey paint to blend in with landscape and lots of compost and forming up of the garden into circular and spiral beds. Giant Russian sunflowers at doorway.</div>
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Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-53677003116853010332015-05-12T22:35:00.001-07:002015-06-23T21:58:22.827-07:00Foraging for Self<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just over a year ago I purchased this fibro shack in a small town on the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania. The photographs here taken March 6, 2014 was just after settlement of the house....I was out of debt, wanted to live a simpler lifestyle...room to breathe....room to garden...and room to grow. I was already on the pathway....it was one day over one year five months that I had steeped out of a bus from Hobart and on arriving was over whelmed by a feeling of having a sense of place and this is where I was to be..........for how long I did not ask myself at that moment............it was a place to be for the moment... for the now. </div>
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The block, about 3/4 acre goes down to a creek that flows into Parsons Bay......the banks of the creek then were overgrown with environmental weeds.</div>
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Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-5331653138536459932013-03-01T03:28:00.000-08:002013-03-01T03:28:21.521-08:00Found Messages<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Wandering along a beach recently I found two pieces of rope that had been washed up with the last tide. The looped rope fragment reminded me of the returning of ideas, thoughts, places, patterns that seem to arise through out life. The last while has seen me return to a place I first visited as a teenager. A place where I felt I had been before, a place of comfort and strange familiarity. On visiting the area more recently the same feelings arose.<br />
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Over these last months I have been looping like the peice of rope and returning to this place. Tooing and frowing like the ebb and flow of the tide that bought the fragments of rope up onto the beach. I feel compelled to continue to explore the pathway to this place, it is a destination that calls, touches something deep within and brings up feelings that are unexplainable in words.<br />
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An adventure has begun. Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-61435415656916352612012-11-03T02:29:00.003-07:002012-11-03T02:49:00.665-07:00Foraged Boat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My father was a professional fisherman along the south coast of Victoria, from Anglesea to Queenscliff. He started off his working life as a motor mechanic working on trucks but since a lad always wanted to be a fisherman. His first boat was found, foraged from a beach at Torquay. She was buried in the sand and needed repair and he purchased for a nominal price from the owner.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckC4-qYqAtk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckC4-qYqAtk</a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCOVW4uIuGiLdK9nl3QgCP7k_eal2T_A7lNtf8LQwntde_qzQequ1gqEUvvOFgh-gZEvjQyqCAXEhwUtOAudcJ2ehZHaKmouOQp6aIvN0S-KqIg3HSPfFnG8jp0MfsOajt38BA5nO39cY/s1600/mclannand,+veggies,+dads+garden,+chooks+feb+march+09+196+(300x225).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>
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I remember as a child the day she was bought home to our backyard for repairs and painting. It is bad luck to change the name of a boat, but after much research Dad could not find out what the boat was called. She was renamed' Deborah D'. She must have been happy with her name as the boat provided Dad with only good luck. Many a fish was caught and the boat looked after Dad on all sorts of occasions, from stormy weather to not drowning when he through himself over board accidently with a cray pot rope around his leg. </div>
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The boat was sold out of the family and ended up in disrepair and then was 'lost'. My brother in another story of foraging, 'found' her again by chance and repaired and bought her back <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBD_bx9UwMw&list=PLB4BF9A3326DA9E18&index=7&feature=plpp_video">'to life'</a>.</div>
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The boat is loved by all and brings us all together with our shared love of boats and the sea. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCOVW4uIuGiLdK9nl3QgCP7k_eal2T_A7lNtf8LQwntde_qzQequ1gqEUvvOFgh-gZEvjQyqCAXEhwUtOAudcJ2ehZHaKmouOQp6aIvN0S-KqIg3HSPfFnG8jp0MfsOajt38BA5nO39cY/s1600/mclannand,+veggies,+dads+garden,+chooks+feb+march+09+196+(300x225).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCOVW4uIuGiLdK9nl3QgCP7k_eal2T_A7lNtf8LQwntde_qzQequ1gqEUvvOFgh-gZEvjQyqCAXEhwUtOAudcJ2ehZHaKmouOQp6aIvN0S-KqIg3HSPfFnG8jp0MfsOajt38BA5nO39cY/s1600/mclannand,+veggies,+dads+garden,+chooks+feb+march+09+196+(300x225).jpg" /></a></div>
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Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-48839640868941197922012-01-19T18:26:00.000-08:002012-01-19T18:26:49.088-08:00Again.......My Tomatoes at the Cross RoadsIt is the season of tiny trusses of ripening 'cherry' tomatoes.<br />
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Each truss, is a jewelled colour sequence from red, orange to green.<br />
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The painting pictured is from a still life series painted a couple of seasons ago. At a time of great change, the tiny tomatoes ripening on the linen cloth with woven striped border were at a "crossroads". With each day passing, they ripened to a brighter red, to maturity. On maturity what was to be their destination? Were they to be gobbled up as part of a salad or sandwich or to be saved for seed? Those saved for seed, would get the opportunity to start anew. The consumed fruit, would sustain a life yet would lose its own.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Of late, there has been a flurry of activity with numerous posting about the wonderful people who have agreed to be part of the interviews. For the next while, I will be working quietly away in the background writing up new interviews and preparing for the exhibition 'Interpreting Place' to be held at Halls Gap as part of the <a href="http://grampianstexture.com.au/">TEXTURES 2012</a> .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">More info is on my other blog site <a href="http://deborahbrearley.blogspot.com/">Firetail Finch</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Visitors to this site please take time to scroll down and read the wonderful stories about the creative people featured in the last while.......... Suzanne, silversmith....John, photographer......Anne, doll maker........Ryan, Painter......to mention but a few...........................enjoy the read.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-69078380387646023002012-01-19T01:12:00.000-08:002012-01-19T17:15:45.759-08:00Trish, Editor, Writer and Music LoverTrish is the person behind the 'gem' of a local mag. "Talking Heads'.<br />
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The magazine is full of 'feel good' stories and all sorts of information about what is happening around the local scene.<br />
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She started the mag. in 2002 and publishes monthly. The readership is around 8,000 and although Barwon Heads focussed, is appreciated by readers far and wide.<br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>What inspires you?</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> The opportunity to produce ethical, creative & honest media & communication. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>What drives you to produce what you do?</strong></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mostly the need to earn a living at something, as above, creative & ethical. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>How would you describe your creative process?</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hit & miss and possibly channelled from a higher source as I often wake up with what I need when I need it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSnZgxn6xZ56gB7jzBRumX6dhty08cngV2twBrGWKd4l-s-JbA5VYVfbWQwgKckNn9d7PaM72wqgNo66s5wD56J23ADP8yB_y88-gLNTmYpNw4hNGFUh62xOc4HcY22MBjEU9fBS2W_eQ/s1600/Chrissy+tree.jpgTrish+Forage+%2528265x261%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSnZgxn6xZ56gB7jzBRumX6dhty08cngV2twBrGWKd4l-s-JbA5VYVfbWQwgKckNn9d7PaM72wqgNo66s5wD56J23ADP8yB_y88-gLNTmYpNw4hNGFUh62xOc4HcY22MBjEU9fBS2W_eQ/s320/Chrissy+tree.jpgTrish+Forage+%2528265x261%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A cotton jumper that was knitted partly by my mother before she passed away, finished after she’d gone & when I wear it I feel close to her</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpHZBNPRaaPHPxlegugqajwPRl4dgtvrv2MsJXdJc2CC_vp5SSrl55AT4LfpnHXEFinVKLvGKqH6z23eIbU6S3JVamh-hBlwwQOtnxysXApkSo3_0lb21Bq7AvtxexieUJhpdHmzxwmao/s1600/Chrissy+tree+%2528300x225%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpHZBNPRaaPHPxlegugqajwPRl4dgtvrv2MsJXdJc2CC_vp5SSrl55AT4LfpnHXEFinVKLvGKqH6z23eIbU6S3JVamh-hBlwwQOtnxysXApkSo3_0lb21Bq7AvtxexieUJhpdHmzxwmao/s1600/Chrissy+tree+%2528300x225%2529.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Besides your creative work, what else do you do, and like doing?</strong> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Running live music gigs with independent musicians who write all their own material. Cooking.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSF8_jWD5dB-r6HoLbwbOi_vCKKblaDTv8lXLWJkUVBHxW5wBLCiAPve_HIMaR8ndLrqRgxX6QAEdPmyrsFWpjztu1CzUoeLn2ShvM6_NB52DErXgepByBtZAdn2bKAZKGVuLX-d8DKRc/s1600/January+poster+2.jpgTrish+Forage+%2528209x300%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSF8_jWD5dB-r6HoLbwbOi_vCKKblaDTv8lXLWJkUVBHxW5wBLCiAPve_HIMaR8ndLrqRgxX6QAEdPmyrsFWpjztu1CzUoeLn2ShvM6_NB52DErXgepByBtZAdn2bKAZKGVuLX-d8DKRc/s320/January+poster+2.jpgTrish+Forage+%2528209x300%2529.jpg" width="222" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gaudi, Dali, Somerset Maugham, Robin Boyd, Joan Lindsay<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>What is a favourite quote or saying?</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">'I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.' ~George Bernard Shaw</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">To contact Trish or more info <a href="http://www.talkingheadsmagazine.com/">Talking Heads Magazine</a></div>Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-7523840317886841152012-01-18T23:39:00.000-08:002012-01-25T15:49:05.633-08:00Ryan Brearley, Painter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_UWPmJnwjEePg41EKzAsz_88dFy3_zQ0IemRKiYnnIdYjVaHKcDmwM2d8OHtow-u_v0v31yVjuEL38biAYw8bzXevmPMsIv_3vdyTkzD6QDLevYipmF4vT5wMddZ2SpTm2TcbU9QaAmI/s1600/IMG_0097.JPGRyan+%2528224x300%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_UWPmJnwjEePg41EKzAsz_88dFy3_zQ0IemRKiYnnIdYjVaHKcDmwM2d8OHtow-u_v0v31yVjuEL38biAYw8bzXevmPMsIv_3vdyTkzD6QDLevYipmF4vT5wMddZ2SpTm2TcbU9QaAmI/s400/IMG_0097.JPGRyan+%2528224x300%2529.jpg" width="296" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>The simplicity of well-made ceramics and the way that light falls upon them. Bicycles and Biggles!</o:p></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>What can make your day?</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Riding my bicycle under the plane trees on St Kilda Road... arriving at the NGV in style!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ryan's work can also be found on the walls of McKenzie Ebbles Foodstore, Hobson Street, Queenscliff</span><br />
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</div></div>Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-33773215402436745192012-01-17T01:48:00.000-08:002012-01-18T22:03:30.510-08:00Anne Barclay, Mother of the Smiley Momos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Anne has come to making these dolls in an around about way. She was originally collecting fabric scraps of mohair to make a quilt out of them but found them unsuitable for this purpose. As a knitter she had a doll pattern in the archives that she liked, and thought instead of knitting a doll, why not adapt the idea and construct a doll out of fabric? And so the Smiley Momos were born. Every doll and smile is different, every little character assumes a personality as they are carefully stitched together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">As well as her dolls, she constucts collage assemblages and at present is knitting a beautiful 'cobweb' of a scarf in fine 2 ply Italian grey angora (below) that is breathtaking!</span><br />
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<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6832838379567429143"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Once upon a time there was a little grey haired lady who collected bits and pieces of mohair.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One day she said to herself, 'what will I do with all this mohair?'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She decided to make little people with big happy smiles, hoping that they would bring smiles and happy thoughts to young and old and in the middle human beings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Smiley Momos were born.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since that day they have been adopted by babies and toddlers, children of all ages, grumpy 60 year old blokes, 90 year old grandmas, well people and unwell people and every one inbetween.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Momos have been posted across the seven seas and one, like Paddington, was lost at Flinders Street station. I'm certain s/he was adopted into a good home.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When the little old lady sews the red smile on, every momo takes on its very own character and personality, and she thinks of Guisseppe, Pinnochio's grandfather, in his workshop.<br />
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Soft and cuddly smiley momos are guaranteed to wish you good morning, kiss you good night and keep you smiling all day long."</span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmTcY4Y1tnKGBP_g7CsO188Jw9S__pPvSw5QeT1LsMSQjJn1EfbgWUR5KRICWfxM1tELGlIOCIzraPAXQuTEqIKmPPVXIT3IEm8AEDUg4dbkE3d9Q65-_72DgqfjggAqZDP8ZF5AQDQ3A/s1600/IMG_3152+%2528151x300%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmTcY4Y1tnKGBP_g7CsO188Jw9S__pPvSw5QeT1LsMSQjJn1EfbgWUR5KRICWfxM1tELGlIOCIzraPAXQuTEqIKmPPVXIT3IEm8AEDUg4dbkE3d9Q65-_72DgqfjggAqZDP8ZF5AQDQ3A/s1600/IMG_3152+%2528151x300%2529.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPJzFb3yUjl7fdViH9MJFLvkLVW6HSA1uer1r1j_dxY9Psjz25pVTqJ1GXUuLnKzeGzzq9yhjEY1uNGAoSiBHPN7KVJTzIlz2pvd508ZxAsqSvpx5nLfu0EVn8HbwNNgdvtuOC_j0g-88/s1600/IMG_3148.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPJzFb3yUjl7fdViH9MJFLvkLVW6HSA1uer1r1j_dxY9Psjz25pVTqJ1GXUuLnKzeGzzq9yhjEY1uNGAoSiBHPN7KVJTzIlz2pvd508ZxAsqSvpx5nLfu0EVn8HbwNNgdvtuOC_j0g-88/s320/IMG_3148.JPG" width="160" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtARzoIUEqWqmPjAqH_ZuBxSSVj5Z-SxDTIpG0D1to7eTTRxXwgmn0eIfosCWQ6rBfpo1sTqK15P5YPi6TGENVNhunwMIDFogP3Af16EpjYfPE1XgWIuUtQCgxNtZ7Zc29AwREbWks68A/s1600/IMG_3150+%2528151x300%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtARzoIUEqWqmPjAqH_ZuBxSSVj5Z-SxDTIpG0D1to7eTTRxXwgmn0eIfosCWQ6rBfpo1sTqK15P5YPi6TGENVNhunwMIDFogP3Af16EpjYfPE1XgWIuUtQCgxNtZ7Zc29AwREbWks68A/s1600/IMG_3150+%2528151x300%2529.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>What inspires you?</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Colour, pattern and smiles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Serendipitious</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>What handmade item do you cherish most, why, significance, story?</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">A pair of assymetrical jade and gold earrings handcrafted by a Vietnamese refugee in the early 1980s. (He was not permitted to practise as a jeweller in Australia.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Walking, listening to birdsong.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Poetry reading at Portarlington Pub 2006</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I am presently reading Paul Keating's 'After words' and loving it.</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
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lodges the bird<br />
of its voice<br />
perpendicular and still<br />
the forest<br />
indifferent to history<br />
tearless as stone<br />
repeats<br />
in tremulous excitement<br />
the ancient story<br />
of the sun going down.'<br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma;"> from<strong> 'And our faces, my heart, brief as photos'</strong>, by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berger">John Berger</a></span><br />
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</tbody></table>Anne's Smiley Momos can be found at ME, Hobson Street, Queenscliff, Tussock, Point Lonsdale, <a href="http://www.135gallery.com.au/">135 Gallery</a> and at the <a href="http://queenscliffartsandcrafts.blogspot.com/">QUARC</a> Market, Point Lonsdale, Victoria<br />
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She can be contacted on mobile 0418335714<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0BLX96FGbRwA8umAz4DCOijgF05498xjEYsIZXa6KVjwzyKnlQ7GMGfPVbAOf3Bz__WR81LbK1ukiMYRbx4g_T2d582WgbdjP9UttuUiQCzfhjY75OQw7cIeX9Ic7txcFBWuEZDMoQmU/s1600/IMG_3162+%2528225x300%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0BLX96FGbRwA8umAz4DCOijgF05498xjEYsIZXa6KVjwzyKnlQ7GMGfPVbAOf3Bz__WR81LbK1ukiMYRbx4g_T2d582WgbdjP9UttuUiQCzfhjY75OQw7cIeX9Ic7txcFBWuEZDMoQmU/s1600/IMG_3162+%2528225x300%2529.jpg" /></a></div>Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-81034359462794575042012-01-15T03:58:00.000-08:002012-01-15T20:33:06.343-08:00Suzanne Cronin, Silversmith<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Suzanne first picked up a jeweller’s torch in high school and has been dabbling ever since. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">She attained a Silversmithing and Jewellery Degree (</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hons)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> in London where she won a merit award for her designs from </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Recently setting up a workshop in Australia, she returned to her passion, silver. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bell of Queenscliff</td></tr>
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</tbody></table>In 2011 Suzanne was invited to participate in the group exhibition <i>The Moonah Stand</i>.<br />
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The following are exerts from her Catalogue <i>The Moonah Stand-Jewellery:</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"The Moonah pieces are primarily 925 sterling silver, some with a hint of resin, latex or enamel. This range evolved because I was given a seed pod off a felled Moonah from Victoria Park, Queenscliff...</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sitting on the mantelpiece for a year, I was drawn to the little branch and decided to cast in Sterling Silver."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"Colours of the latex inclusions in the pendants are ingrained in my memory of the Victoria Park trees but not for the reasons you might think. Plastic ribbons tied to the trunks denoted that tree was to be felled. When?</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">That depended on the colour...</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The presence of bright latex and resin in some pieces serves as a reminder to me that the hand of man is imprinted here</span><i style="font-family: Calibri;">."</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhusW2W5jLC-DcvYiN9CI8P-4d20ixeB0dpCeK3edZvwJX07Yd_dAuVYh7OXJ0_4rBIzSBWxmGCWUjXQA93X41N30DLv_jn7HhswivczAy0A8NFN3s8wsu9WrzhBQeMS7fHEEvxuQ8odjA/s1600/Square+logo+with+words+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhusW2W5jLC-DcvYiN9CI8P-4d20ixeB0dpCeK3edZvwJX07Yd_dAuVYh7OXJ0_4rBIzSBWxmGCWUjXQA93X41N30DLv_jn7HhswivczAy0A8NFN3s8wsu9WrzhBQeMS7fHEEvxuQ8odjA/s200/Square+logo+with+words+copy.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"It's (the bright latex) a sharp contrast to the organic silver casting. In fact, the bright colour seems out of place...Just like a pink ribbon on a tree perhaps?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Suzanne's Maker's Mark is TLC which stands for The Laundry Collection. The icon inside the C pays homage to her front-loader!</span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What inspires you?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am inspired by my life and what unfolds around me whether that be family, community or the materials I have available to me at a given point in time. My <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">style</i>, for want of a better word is therefore constantly evolving and changing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What drives you to produce what you do?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I thrive on challenge, I always have done. I see each piece as a creative challenge I have to conquer. Turning an idea, that pesky little thought that won’t go away, into a piece that is aesthetically pleasing yet technically perfect is the goal. Each piece is different and has its own nuances. I am driven to find perfection, my Holy Grail, unobtainable yet so alluring. Hence, I am fastidious about the finish of each piece.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5HRPSb-tOWEgtUKaC7P6puSIbH5YK-X6RRXzXji9cvt3bmNnxL5bt19elnoNzL58Y23cY8dKsOe3uyl30QAsqhvYkfjehebD7B_WErVBatAyz7wkS_kSxtrxOJI_tuKKIr18NQ_H-ldg/s1600/P1160443_edited-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5HRPSb-tOWEgtUKaC7P6puSIbH5YK-X6RRXzXji9cvt3bmNnxL5bt19elnoNzL58Y23cY8dKsOe3uyl30QAsqhvYkfjehebD7B_WErVBatAyz7wkS_kSxtrxOJI_tuKKIr18NQ_H-ldg/s400/P1160443_edited-1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIPIFRKHR3XhTLGiT7TYKzi46-yH-_a98W2R8U-mhhMOQDqFdNMbrH0juYik0xpiJP5LfvmUCotLKcOgT2h2CR97a8B0-T0WRArIGvtCLkx1nhFeqiM-ii6YLX5s7PX2IIWDz9-yRd9W0/s1600/2011+06+21_4542+-+Copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIPIFRKHR3XhTLGiT7TYKzi46-yH-_a98W2R8U-mhhMOQDqFdNMbrH0juYik0xpiJP5LfvmUCotLKcOgT2h2CR97a8B0-T0WRArIGvtCLkx1nhFeqiM-ii6YLX5s7PX2IIWDz9-yRd9W0/s200/2011+06+21_4542+-+Copy.JPG" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRZ4Px5l3UMoVnGSee4RPFoELnK3e4PSwLPZfSLBFpbovPZ7LnXlkz2ODlLsO-RLJhZZrbpFsIUx_BSdecsYilSC8HmVE7JCLZ235bYV_KOS7DShFpMZMGUu6sBdpUB5WlDRYGs_At-Pc/s1600/Suzanne+Cronin+FORAGE.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRZ4Px5l3UMoVnGSee4RPFoELnK3e4PSwLPZfSLBFpbovPZ7LnXlkz2ODlLsO-RLJhZZrbpFsIUx_BSdecsYilSC8HmVE7JCLZ235bYV_KOS7DShFpMZMGUu6sBdpUB5WlDRYGs_At-Pc/s320/Suzanne+Cronin+FORAGE.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How would you describe your creative process?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Trial and error. Actually, a lot of error then epiphany. I latch onto an idea and it stays with me and the process of breaking it down to a working piece can take years or a day. I manipulate my metal, I sketch, I ask opinions of the family, I sleep on it, I dream about it. My best work has been produced as a result of satisfying a dream.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What handmade item do you cherish?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Probably the wrong answer but I have to say, everything I make. I feel so privileged to be doing what I am, each piece I produce it a testament to the journey that got me here and I cherish each and every one.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I will say I have a box of my mother’s letters that are very dear to me. She documented my life and our relationship through her writing for a period of 15 years until her death. I know letters may not be thought of as handmade, but in this computer age I can tell you a lot of time and love went into her words using pen and paper.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Besides your creative work, what else do you do, and like doing?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m at a period in my life where I like investing time with the family doing family activities. Oh, and there is a small interest I have in computers but more and more, even that is becoming part of my creative work. My challenge there is to conquer Computer Aided Design.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Which artist, writer, designer or craftsperson (living or dead) do you admire?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I saw an early ring by Georg Jensen and the simplicity and mirror finish have stayed with me as an object of desire and a standard to aspire to. I have always admired the designs of <a href="http://mobilia-gallery.com/artists/wramshaw">Wendy Ramshaw</a> especially the Picasso's Ladies series. <a href="http://www.deborahbrearley.com.au/">Deborah Brearley</a> is a constant target for my admiration, seemingly effortlessly waving a magic design wand to every project she touches from drawing to painting, printing, quilting, animation and the rest! The work of sculptor <a href="http://www.flg.com.au/theartists/FLG_theartists_elderfield.htm">Damien Elderfield</a> takes my breath away.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What can make your day?</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When a teenager or young adult spontaneously says my work is “awesome” or “that’s really cool”. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s one thing to happen in the family, increasing my cred with the children but another experience altogether when a total stranger says it.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Either way, magic!</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Makes me feel like I’ve struck gold.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What are you currently reading?<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Caleb’s Crossing </i>by Geraldine Brooks which</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;"> a book club read but I do enjoy her books. It was also an e reader experiment. I was given a Kobo reader for Christmas and I loaded the whole reading list for book club 2012.</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now the challenge is to actually get them read.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="color: black;">Latest magazine subscription: Frosting (a jewellery not cooking magazine!</span>)</span><span style="color: #1f497d;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span style="color: black;">Frosting is just to keep me up with current Australian jewellery design trends. I also like examining the photography as I photograph my own pieces.</span></span></span></div><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri;">What is a favourite quote or saying?</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Carpe diem</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj37nEYmk9xiG48Q4S3o_zDxA4rhpI8uTneQjmiSou9b0ThskaPVHrBDDkbfr2bDEhsIarp3ba00u-Yzavg1LXFQreet8BYoo9lFeFUzBHuqvm3J3NOnjwJufspK2pIupgL8-6_NKwA4FM/s1600/P1170349_edited-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj37nEYmk9xiG48Q4S3o_zDxA4rhpI8uTneQjmiSou9b0ThskaPVHrBDDkbfr2bDEhsIarp3ba00u-Yzavg1LXFQreet8BYoo9lFeFUzBHuqvm3J3NOnjwJufspK2pIupgL8-6_NKwA4FM/s400/P1170349_edited-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If you want more details about Suzanne and her work visit her website: </span><a href="http://thelaundrycollection.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">The Laundry</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Suzanne has a solo exhibition opening February 9th at </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://artathousegallery.blogspot.com/">House Gallery</a>, Queenscliff</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To contact Suzanne email: </span><a href="mailto:Thelaundrycollection@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Thelaundrycollection@gmail.com</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.thelaundrycollection.blogspot.com/">www.thelaundrycollection.blogspot.com</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div><o:p></o:p>Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-78911103921667029362012-01-12T01:14:00.000-08:002012-01-22T02:57:54.781-08:00Maude, Illustrator, avid reader.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><strong>What drives you to produce what you do?</strong></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The little moments of fizz, every now and again, when you do something that “works”.</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><strong>What can make your day?</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Bad spelling.</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://www.maudefarrugia.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">www.maudefarrugia.blogspot.com</span></a></span>Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-61139501360358670452012-01-12T01:00:00.000-08:002012-01-24T18:52:31.710-08:00Sophie Read, Artist and GardenerSophie's meticulous attention to detail pays off in both her artwork and the gardens that she designs and maintains. Her 'Robot Paintings' on recycled board have her signature motif - a rocket carefully painted on the reverse. The paintings have been reproduced as a series of greeting cards, each featuring a robot with' attitude' .<br />
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Street art, cartoons, surf/skate/snowboard art, industrial/mechanical drawings, lettering, logos and typography, comics, children's books, japanese woodcuts, to name a few!<br />
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It's something I love to do, and something I need to do. It keeps me on an even keel.<br />
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Perfectly carved slices of avocado, chunky cubes of goat's cheese and a splash of beetroot marmalade, skilfully arranged on a piece of sourdough toast. Created by Annie's Provedore in Barwon Heads and cherished by me on a regular basis - usually Friday or Saturday morning<br />
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<strong>Besides your creative work, what else do you do and enjoy doing?</strong><br />
Gardening, playing guitar and ukulele, watching animated movies especially in 3D, exercising, surfing, hanging out in the garden with my partner Philippa and our cat PK <br />
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<strong>Artists you admire?</strong><br />
Street artists like Banksy, Hera, Space Invader...children's book illustrators Shaun Tan and Graeme Base...Doug Bartlett (Nick Morris and Dave Bowers)...the work they produce is beautiful and the processes they use mind blowing!<br />
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<strong>Can you describe your creative process?</strong><br />
It's not really organised enough to describe it as a process...the ideas are constantly bubbling away, ideas and images become sketches, some of which are abandoned immediately and then often turn up in later work. Relatively few are worked and reworked through to the final stage. I tend to jump around a lot. Different styles, different media, I get really carried away....there are so many ideas, so much inspiration all around, new things to try...it's exciting rewarding obsessive compulsive joyful chaos!!<br />
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Then I have to go back to my gardening work and it all simmers back down to bubbles again. Until my next day off...<br />
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<strong>What can make your day?</strong><br />
Most of my daily feel-good moments come from connecting with people in some way...sharing a laugh with Phil, a brief exchange with a stranger down at the shops, coffee and chats with a friend, getting an email from someone I haven't heard from for a while. All that stuff means a lot to me.<br />
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<strong>Favourite Quote?</strong><br />
'An artist cannot fail - it is success to be one'<br />
My mum passed that one on to me...not sure where it came from, but it means a lot to me. Not just the literal meaning, which in itself is wonderful, but it also speaks volumes about the support I get from her. She wrote it on the back of an old envelope and gave it to me years ago, when I was feeling like a complete failure and making a bit of a mess of my life. I still have it, it's one of my treasures.<br />
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Sophie can be contacted at <a href="mailto:rocketstudio@yahoo.com.au">rocketstudio@yahoo.com.au</a>. She works out of Ocean Grove, Victoria, Australia. Her work can also be seen at the <a href="http://queenscliffartsandcrafts.blogspot.com/">QUARC</a> market held in Point Lonsdale on a regular basis.<br />
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All designs (c) Sophie Read 2012<br />
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</tbody></table>Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-21427437184809436752012-01-10T00:07:00.000-08:002012-01-16T23:21:08.555-08:00John Ellis, Every Picture Tells a Story.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzWrhGS9MEi-tQ-XDlgVqtCjO6YaurQeMcagibVSXoPGABvk95r5QGaeyAGwwrAc81HEDa9aEpusJLBhcVaGFyWLL_qHGr82gIxhA9GsicQcc3-phKNneV2Lea0P0Tyyw6TgbaNov3Pio/s1600/IMG_2966+%2528225x300%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzWrhGS9MEi-tQ-XDlgVqtCjO6YaurQeMcagibVSXoPGABvk95r5QGaeyAGwwrAc81HEDa9aEpusJLBhcVaGFyWLL_qHGr82gIxhA9GsicQcc3-phKNneV2Lea0P0Tyyw6TgbaNov3Pio/s400/IMG_2966+%2528225x300%2529.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />
John describes himself as an activist and photographer. His energy and enthusiasm for life is inspiring and his work and music lift the heart. Every photograph has a story and the layered meanings are only revealed in conversation with him.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John took this photograph of the Point Lonsdale lighthouse in 2006 when on a jaunt in a Tiger Moth.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>What inspires you?<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Socialist revolutions in Cuba and Latin America. Their actions bring a glimpse of hope for a humane, environmental and equitable world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>What drives you to produce what you do?</strong></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> An urgency to record the history of Left movements in my lifetime through photography. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>How would you describe your creative process</strong>?<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A desire to capture the event and the people involved. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>What hand-made item do you cherish?<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A hand-carved, wooden buffalo from Mexico. For me its represents strength and resilience against those who would destroy us. I bought it in Mexico City on a short stop over on the way to Cuba and the United States in 1996.</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Besides your creative work, what else do you do, and like doing?</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Listening to classical, jazz or folk music, playing the recorder with friends, reading, walking through the bush, writing my memoirs, writing a history of type setting in Australia, voluntary community work, and cataloguing Left political collections.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Which artist, writer, designer or craftsperson (living or dead) do you admire?</strong></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Paul Robeson. A colossus who bestrode the world stage singing, acting, fighting for social justice and who took on almost single-handed the fight for civil rights of Afro American people in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>What can make your day?<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Having a picnic or a Happy Hour by the sea.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>What is a favourite quote or saying?<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There are two: “Workers of the World Unite,’’ and “The People United Will Never be Defeated”<span style="color: #1f497d;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>1000 images from the John Ellis Photograph Collection can be viewed at the University of Melbourne Archives web site, or from the <i>Picture Australia </i>site at the National Library of Australia.<span style="color: #1f497d;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><strong> John photographs are Copyright: University of Melbourne Archives.</strong></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John takes a shot at the Pine Gap restriction sign outside the gates at the United States' spy base near Alice Springs 1998</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Protesters march through Melbourne in protest against the United States' war in Iraq, 2002</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Protesters march from Jabaru to the Jabiluka uranium mine in the Northern Territory, 2001 </td></tr>
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Moorabbin Peace Action organised the only meeting of Dr. Benjamin Spock when he visited Victoria. He spoke about the American war in Vietnam and its consequences for Australia. The Australian Nazi Party protested outside the Moorabbin Town Hall. 1971<br />
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</tbody></table>John can be contacted through this blog site regarding his photographs and the stories associated with them. He also plays recorder in a group called Musique who perform regularly at varoius venues.<br />
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</div>Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-49520841741016272422012-01-07T02:43:00.000-08:002012-01-07T02:46:10.510-08:00Blackbird Singing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0nZi6c6cOlYxws0coZplc3kPgzEjlEYWpoud867b4wfk6tK2H4Fx2M_OgakiVvASkVmF9FX2bBy3jUpnie4uvH_7c12z1ZSpzmE6C8MpdmmOxNhu9CitEc2ELIooMTcpgGhiMmy69Uk4/s1600/IMG_2952.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0nZi6c6cOlYxws0coZplc3kPgzEjlEYWpoud867b4wfk6tK2H4Fx2M_OgakiVvASkVmF9FX2bBy3jUpnie4uvH_7c12z1ZSpzmE6C8MpdmmOxNhu9CitEc2ELIooMTcpgGhiMmy69Uk4/s200/IMG_2952.JPG" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij1-_GoDfH6LU6v1TpHj1dNuSIBqHOaHKxyYtzASMf-xgOWtQ3quuVqYG7FIA7-ZuIOG3JmNV_f8icoy6MVrPoaIl9FZbED32FzWn7VawLui2EyPI8SgZrTQs0ZGgFg0nfH3I5deM3_gg/s1600/IMG_2946.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij1-_GoDfH6LU6v1TpHj1dNuSIBqHOaHKxyYtzASMf-xgOWtQ3quuVqYG7FIA7-ZuIOG3JmNV_f8icoy6MVrPoaIl9FZbED32FzWn7VawLui2EyPI8SgZrTQs0ZGgFg0nfH3I5deM3_gg/s200/IMG_2946.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><br />
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</div>In the front yard today was a flegling <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Blackbird">Blackbird</a>. Mother and child sang and called to each other all afternoon.<br />
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Father seemed to be the main forager, feeding the child, no doubt the worms from my compost that is nearly matured in the backyard.<br />
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The pleasure I had from the afternoon serenade was worth the loss of the worms in my garden. Though poor worms had no say in the matter!Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-82911338569365077112012-01-06T17:16:00.000-08:002012-01-07T04:22:01.722-08:00Reg, Retired Professional Fisherman, Gardener, Maker.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgegPEqLrLYqhPQdpwx9Sq7nfp8HyXPkqS0gTOshbfCPxCMS-fHYvY4CGrLyczrlHA-fQunSEIEiqdlj9W_5LQOXKUMAgHZ6UhU6e-63t14pXloPsEPmt7cUQ2Sasxvzex5r1nIUKf8fPc/s1600/IMG_4099.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgegPEqLrLYqhPQdpwx9Sq7nfp8HyXPkqS0gTOshbfCPxCMS-fHYvY4CGrLyczrlHA-fQunSEIEiqdlj9W_5LQOXKUMAgHZ6UhU6e-63t14pXloPsEPmt7cUQ2Sasxvzex5r1nIUKf8fPc/s400/IMG_4099.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>What inspires you?</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The birds that come to my garden...I feed the doves and a blackbird has made a nest close to my back door. Her first nest and babies were taken by the crows. She knows she is safe now.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>How would you describe your creative process?</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>I think of something I need or want to make and I just get on with it. I follow my instincts. Like the flat bottomed boat I made for fishing in the shallow waters of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Bay">Swan Bay</a></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>What handmade item do you cherish?</strong></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some tools that a Russian friend made for me. The metal was from some old plough pieces and he worked them up into something really special. Having to' make do' is where he came from.</span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Besides your creative work, what else do you do?</strong></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I cook, garden, read and watch the weather and the birds.</span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>What was the last book/magazine that you purchased?</strong></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Urban Farm Very inspiring and some great ideas that I am trying out. Like the floating lettuce garden......Vermiponics they call it! And it has the sourdough bread recipe too!</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.urbanfarmonline.com/urban-farm-magazine-and-books/urban-farm-magazines/uf1105-table-of-contents.aspx">http://www.urbanfarmonline.com/urban-farm-magazine-and-books/urban-farm-magazines/uf1105-table-of-contents.aspx</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>What can make your day?</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Catching a fish! Finding an early ripe tomato.</span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>What is a favourite quote or saying</strong>?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I will think about that!</span><br />
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When about to put this dolly's head through a hole on the fragment of lace cloth (the starting point of the costume) I thought of the artist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirka_Mora">Mirka Mora</a>. Many years ago I attended a workshop and spent some time with her,. Her hair was greying at the time, dark eyes and ruby lips. She expressed herself lots of cheeky smiles and giggles and had wicked sense of humour. This dolly with flowing grey hair ( of old darning wool) and flowing dress for me has a spirit like that of the Mirka I remember.Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-18303729093305457462012-01-04T05:14:00.000-08:002012-01-04T05:23:43.088-08:00Girl with AttitudeA friend delivered a box of treats tonight! A beautiful tatterered, woven and drawn threadwork cloth, very, very passed its useby date, has become a costume for this little character with attitude. <br />
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I stitched the fine linen cloth onto a dolly shape, filled the sections with a soft washed and carded wool and she started to come to life<br />
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. The limbs twisted and turned and even before she had a face, she had a mind of her own.<br />
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The hair was form an old card with darning wool on it, and the pig tails emerged after the wound section was cut away from the card and stitched into a wig shape.<br />
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I thought the section of embroidered cloth with the most holes and wear would make an old time dress.<br />
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The doll and the cloth had other ideas!<br />
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I slipped a holed section over her head and the piece became a cheeky little' short dress number'. Of course under the 'cossie' she has some very classy underwear. Pink lace knickers and bra. ...and she has the cutest of belly buttons.Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-56798940760731204072012-01-04T04:54:00.000-08:002012-01-04T04:54:34.123-08:00Dolly Watercolour Portrait<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqcvxSF_wrxrhAUcJks5-uPhhHRV1kNUhOcBeUsDZnkOHn_pzh3c1IUS4-58vDCarBx15wCAt_nLaEOls6aZhWXxcT8mbqKQEJZj-jAtdzSlcel7XhXd961K7A-8uUs3qawn_5SYsTgU4/s1600/IMG_2585+%2528222x300%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqcvxSF_wrxrhAUcJks5-uPhhHRV1kNUhOcBeUsDZnkOHn_pzh3c1IUS4-58vDCarBx15wCAt_nLaEOls6aZhWXxcT8mbqKQEJZj-jAtdzSlcel7XhXd961K7A-8uUs3qawn_5SYsTgU4/s320/IMG_2585+%2528222x300%2529.jpg" width="236" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik5UFFgwqVF6UNcKKZhJ7UnQjzygFTUy9y8ECixkpXqZH4ShWiAXMlwGtY0WYugtZG8Ae3CHRgCrbTDUDTsoMQsqWebahVt3UbgFwMgCZf7f6icQSp6KK9dgpUPBSKwNutbJMnJCdU_W8/s1600/IMG_2584+%2528225x300%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik5UFFgwqVF6UNcKKZhJ7UnQjzygFTUy9y8ECixkpXqZH4ShWiAXMlwGtY0WYugtZG8Ae3CHRgCrbTDUDTsoMQsqWebahVt3UbgFwMgCZf7f6icQSp6KK9dgpUPBSKwNutbJMnJCdU_W8/s320/IMG_2584+%2528225x300%2529.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Some things lead into other things..............................................................</div>Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-31502949972534643642012-01-02T02:44:00.000-08:002012-01-02T02:44:42.909-08:00Op Shop Cup<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHb9niznPiVQV2IYTAbwqm1MyCLBdD6UGJ_jF07hFbxk5eg_StYH_MHeE5r1SmqBGUF9VUoSQI-uEui7i9AHmiOVKvsaPKYcoVtcJaakpR4SdQx93rC4ZA7bCdnCjRewCfY_qiVPhbk1M/s1600/paintings003+%2528300x300%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHb9niznPiVQV2IYTAbwqm1MyCLBdD6UGJ_jF07hFbxk5eg_StYH_MHeE5r1SmqBGUF9VUoSQI-uEui7i9AHmiOVKvsaPKYcoVtcJaakpR4SdQx93rC4ZA7bCdnCjRewCfY_qiVPhbk1M/s400/paintings003+%2528300x300%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a>Popped this odd china on a pedestal before painting it. I enjoy seeing the beauty in the ordinary, the odd and often discarded items. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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This little dolly is made of linen scraps and apron fabrics that were left over from the Apron Forage Quilt. She is also filled with offcuts from the cotton quilt wadding used for the quilt. Her face is hand stitched with painted cheeks and woollen <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadlocks">dread locks</a>. In one hand she clutches a bunch of flowers.Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-84177795683700455882011-12-30T04:27:00.000-08:002011-12-30T04:27:25.992-08:00Dolly Cot ( or Teddy Bed!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOwhM8ls-brultgUQHhQwja0uLMEpGuoBTt0EiwsCLrJlWAJCG2hhSGupfYUJPxYyKCklXpUp1VKsQ6utJ5RwfSl7xzRnlZ4Bi1GoAnbC5POd0wH0DITuHL8EubY88HNqOlt5RTMAx2Pc/s1600/IMG_2476+%2528300x219%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOwhM8ls-brultgUQHhQwja0uLMEpGuoBTt0EiwsCLrJlWAJCG2hhSGupfYUJPxYyKCklXpUp1VKsQ6utJ5RwfSl7xzRnlZ4Bi1GoAnbC5POd0wH0DITuHL8EubY88HNqOlt5RTMAx2Pc/s1600/IMG_2476+%2528300x219%2529.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF_gpcjMmXzRiTvO7AYjOtgxYCSsIE84MxFZ9wCQoJIAABINBwTlKj_nIVxHRs_KwOzYoSEtBSYdaSccTJPFqVu8NKnajEXco5WPIFB7j3lliV_S8Y55yYD6wq1mKoWvDX8PoAN2YFvcI/s1600/IMG_2478+%2528217x300%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF_gpcjMmXzRiTvO7AYjOtgxYCSsIE84MxFZ9wCQoJIAABINBwTlKj_nIVxHRs_KwOzYoSEtBSYdaSccTJPFqVu8NKnajEXco5WPIFB7j3lliV_S8Y55yYD6wq1mKoWvDX8PoAN2YFvcI/s1600/IMG_2478+%2528217x300%2529.jpg" /></a></div> Have had this darling little cot in the shed for years. Decided it was time that it had a new life. My son,an apprentice builder mended a leg that was broken and I mended some cane weaving in the sides with some dried bracken stems that I had split into flat pieces. Then very carefully I freshened the paintwork, taking great care to keep the old and worn charm of this gem.<br />
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Finally to work to make a mattress and bedlinen.( Really made out of linen too.) The mattress and pillow I filled with washed and carded wool for the old fashioned slightly lumpy look. Then onto the quilt. A well washed linen/cotton Firetail Finch T Towel with screen- printed tricycle, padded with a traditional thin cotton quilt filler. All assembled and ready for sleeping in!.<br />
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The cot was photographed at Tobias and the Cat, Hessse Street, Queenscliff.<br />
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The Firetail Finch range of T Towels are available form The <a href="http://queenscliffartsandcrafts.blogspot.com/">QUARC</a> Market, Point LonsdaleDebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7262723363752744860.post-14430720333712537312011-12-30T03:17:00.000-08:002011-12-30T03:31:45.056-08:00Unashamably Odd!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN_1Gm2LTZK0FEk4elZRl3RI9SYEbP2Sh8CCBNqmHS7GUFbKq-4HXFJcrcShMHnkz_kW8TbG8U9F4OIIa1m_OoBfSWkGEl1T0XzcMtoy6pwdAFShh02CMS6W6_8nUBQvMqCzIlDCXQzYU/s1600/IMG_2468+%2528282x300%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN_1Gm2LTZK0FEk4elZRl3RI9SYEbP2Sh8CCBNqmHS7GUFbKq-4HXFJcrcShMHnkz_kW8TbG8U9F4OIIa1m_OoBfSWkGEl1T0XzcMtoy6pwdAFShh02CMS6W6_8nUBQvMqCzIlDCXQzYU/s1600/IMG_2468+%2528282x300%2529.jpg" /></a></div>And some pieces left over from the quilt became a cushion that was slightly off square. One side was pieced and the other side has a pocket that forms a patch.<br />
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I get a lot of pleasure making something from an item that is past its use by date. In this case a worn and tattered old apron has a new life in the form of a small quilt.After carefully laundering and unpicking there was enough to 'build' a pieced quilt of simple squares. Some of the squares are pieced and patched. The apron strings form a border top and bottom.Debhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12321281967510064693noreply@blogger.com0