Created from a children's board book. Materials include vintage pages, vinyl, pipe cleaners, foam, hockey tape, found items (beads, plastic ball), wire, embroidery silks, acrylic paint and white glue
Hand dyed cotton (Sharpie and alcohol) Hand made felt. Cotton embroidery threads, regular cotton. Machine and hand stitched. Wadding and heavy cotton backing.
Gel medium transfer of original photo (The figure head of the ship outside Treasure Island, Las Vegas). Selection of fabric-paper (Foil candy wrapper, handmade papers, security envelope, Ledger paper and wallpaper). Text printed on Inkjet cotton. Buttons painted with Gold molding paste.4 shades of blue embroidery silk. Hand and machine stitching.
Inspired by a 1930's catalogue from Eaton's, found in the thrift store for $1! All images were drawn rather than photographed. Some of the clothing just begs for a cheeky comment to be added! Part of a series of page I have created.
Inspired by the plastic container of water flavouring, that looked “Rocket“ shaped. Frame made from cloth paper (cotton fabric, encyclopedia pages and tissue paper), machine and hand sewn. Rocket made from platic container, cork, washer and cloth paper. Rivet detail using silver gel paste. Hand stitched stars and planet. After burn from cloth paper, candy…
Inspired partly by the scenery and beach where I live. Walking the beach often, I collect many treasures to make art with. Who knows what dark monsters the depths of the ocean really hold? Mixed media collage mounted on driftwood. Waves, background, mountains and small colored flags made from cloth-paper. Cloud and sail made from dryer…
"Felt" is th theme of this handmade book. A play on words, all ten pages have an image about feelings. Cover made with hot water felt, detail stiched in and re-felted. Cloth paper used to strengthen. Lettering from alternate colour hot water felt. Wool stiching on edge, handmade botton. Ten dryer sheet pages collaged and…
Handmade and dyed felt backgound, trees and moon. Font frinted onto cotton and stitched. Cloth paper letters with embroidery silk detail. Hand stitched snake. Machine and handstiched detailing. Sewn on stars. Cotton backing, in black and green (accidental product of dying the felt!).
Supportive Art – inspired by the inspirational tales of breat cancer survivors. I'll dedicate this to our friend Jackie who is a wonderful advocate of those fearless women who battle cancer everyday. Padded Cloth-paper background, stars, pearl beads and machine stitched bra (scrapbook paper, cloth paper and a dryer sheet to mute the colors) to allow…
Small fabric collage (5×5.5"). Grey linen, hessian, button and printed fabric moose and letteing. Mixed machine and hand stitching.
