The Bushfire

This quilt was made using a piece of fabric dyed by Dijanne Cevaal. I have used oil paint sticks, water colour paints, fabric paints, silk paints, oil pastels, chroma coal and free machine embroidery (using rayon threads) to try and achieve a feeling of movement and heat.

AUSTRALIAN INSPIRED QUILTS - 2

THE TOBWABBI QUILTS

There are currently 3 wallhangings in the Tobwabbi series and another 3 under construction. The colours of all the quilts are inspired by a piece of Tobwabbi Art: Australian aboriginal paintings by the Worrimi People of New South Wales. The colours sum up warmth and Australia (which I visited 2 years ago and which made, artistically, a huge impression on me) "The red earth, the sun rays, red ochre is the sacred colour of our people"

In Tobwabbi 1 and 2 these colour combinations have been combined with experimental work on first "exploding" and then using Fibonacci's principles to mathematically extend a traditional nine patch block. They are constructed with machine pieced commercially dyed cotton and overlaid with hand painted georgette, procion space dyed silks and commercial silks, bonded, and machine quilted in nylon (colourless) thread. Tobwabbi 1 is £220 (SOLD) and Tobwabbi 2 is £320 (SOLD)

AUSTRALIAN INSPIRED QUILTS - 3

THE DUNE SERIES OF QUILTS

MOUNDS AND FURROWS:

Continuing the colours of the Tobwabbi Quilts I have taken the colours and applied them to designs made from drawings taken from a plane (approximately 31,000 feet) above the Great Sandy Desert in Australia. The patterns of the dunes from this height are condensed into an extraordinary sight of furrows and mounds. It is very hard to believe that these shapes are caused by sand dunes as they must be enormous. Some of the long, striated dunes,  must go on for many, many miles.

                     DUNE 1: FURROWS AND MOUNDS 2 (ochre)