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earth altar detail 2

Here is a detail if the embossed paper side, including part of a poppy stem. I love to take paper pulp, sculpt it, let it dry in the sun, then paint it. It is so free and open to the imagination!

earth altar

This little art house provides a time and place to sit, reflect and be still. It is a place to create. I can imagine sitting on the little stone and looking out into nature, and reflecting inwards using the mirror on the wall. I saw it being open so I removed a wall, so you could be inside and out. This little house is…

Isabelle

Isabelle was created with wire, beads, fabric tape, thread, Fimo and home-made paper pulp. Her head is made of Fimo that was painted with acrylic paint, and her wings are made of painted embossed paper. Beads were added to her wire body, and the wire was painted with nail polish for colour.   Isabelle is a…

free flow swatch

Here is one of the fabric  blocks that I hand painted with dye. . I really enjoyed entering a challenge for the first time, and trying new techniques with the fabric. . It was a delight to play with the layers of colour, blending to create unexpected patterns. After years of painting on canvas, I loved how the…

free flow

My fabric started out as white 100% cotton, and was painted with layers with fabric dye and fabric markers. I repeated a happy accident of brushing dye crystals on the fabric then spraying it with a water bottle.  While working, I thought of variations of lines in nature, how beautiful they are in their randomness and changeability, like ripples of…