Saturday 8th May - Tales of the Unexpected - Elise Stewart

This afternoon Elise took us through her journey of using different materials in her work, from recycled sheeting, paper, plastics , Tyvek. wool and wire.

From this                                                to this

 

Elise explained how she used rusting fabric in her work

Here was some work done for a project called the Beyondness of Bees, using glow in the dark threads and paints

..... and some using pins and threads

These pieces were part of a collaborative piece where fabrics were swapped. Theses were dyed and painted

Next some work done with Jean Littlejohn where strips of fabric were overlaid with bondaweb, scrim and knitting yarn.

Elise took her recycling to the limit using the top of one of her husbands socks!!

The next pieces were for an exhibition called Fabulous Fungi

and yes all these pieces used dyed and painted Baby wipes!!

Elise wanted to do a piece of work based on her pergola. She got her husband to make the frame from kebab skewers and then suspended  her sun dyed silk fabric from it.

This was some heat treated pond liner that she will use in some work

These two pieces used metal from coffee pods and wire, and Kraft- tex paper

... and these are Friendly plastic, with beads and fabric strips

This book was covered with leaf printed paper and stitch

After a visit to the Needle Museum Elise did a representation of the Needle displays, using twigs that she couched down

 

Here the leaves have been incorporated  using Bondaweb and Chiffon

Thank you Elise for giving an insight into your wacky use of materials