A Canadian Winter

Every year we ask the sky to send down as much snow as possible.  Our own nests will be all the warmer, all the softer.  Dreamers like severe weather.  

Dear Heart

Embrace the word ‘No’

It’s like a box.  It gives boundaries and walls.

The box allows the creativity to expand with abandon because the limit pushes back into itself. 

‘No’ stops you in your tracks and opens up a new place to start.  

Susan Wooldridge

an Elder

 

I’m always taken care of by my own work.

You let go of your own idea and let the work go where it needs to go.  And that’s sometimes very uncomfortable.  

One learns to linger in discontent and not be judgmental, but to have faith.  

Kiki Smith 

the year of the quilt

priorities in 2022

finish up some of my works in progress:

put the pieced quilt tops together with batting and backs and begin to quilt them.  

the old dresden plate on new linen - ready to put together

the red sunlight and more yellow sunlight - I have some linen for a back

the green lamentation patched square - should I use a white wool back?

new beginning - use black thread in some areas

indigo checkerboard - please complete it jude

the first countdown to 50 years married is ready to quilt

the mended butterfly - mend and quilt

and those are only a few

The heart is symbolized by the sun

My enemy is the simile - that it is ‘like’ something.

My aspiration is the metaphor - it IS this

                 - it IS crushed    - it IS fragile 

Not about the image of the thing, but about the condition it is in. 

Phyllida Barlow

 

daydream keeper

 I find you need to dive right in … that acting on a thought immediately preserves more of the spontaneous quality of creativity, and so this is how ‘what-offing’ has changed my methods and turned into some kind of direct journaling-on-fabric … a physical keeper of daydreams.  A way to make things new.     Jude Hill

wind over water

 You paint like you create textiles and create textiles like you paint.  Wonderful.  I once had a tutor who told me to draw like you stitch and stitch like you draw.  You have achieved that.

You also demonstrate a strong understanding of a wide variety of artists and contextualize your work within 20th century allowing the artist’s thoughts to impinge and become integrated into your own thinking.  From that, you then allow the influences to develop into something new.  

Well done. 

From tutor Kay Swancutt’s email, 2011