24th April - Cashmere Flowers - Mandy Wilkes

We had a lovely afternoon making flowers from Cashmere fabric. We  had all  been provided with a pack of small pieces of Cashmere and some circle pattern pieces.

The technique used is Japanese Kansashi and here are some that Mandy made 

Once again it was lovely to sit and chat and sew together.

Here are some of the completed flowers

There were also variations on the use of the cashmerere 

and also using different fabrics after the workshop

 

Thank you for a lovely afternoon Mandy and not forgetting her daughter , Harmony who helped with the technical issues!!!

 10th April - Creative Collage with Clare Wasserman

We had a fun afternoon with Clare making  creative collages.

Clare started the afternoon with a talk on collage. She explained its use in Surrealism, Pop Art and making political statements.

The word collage comes from the French word coller, to stick.

She showed us examples of work by many artists who used collage in their work including Lee Krasner, Wangechi Mutu, James Castle and John Piper.

We were then sent off to find three items to create a still life. We used magazine paper, painted papers , paper napkins etc and cut these freely into the shapes of the three items.

Here are some of our still life creations

The second half of the session was to create a self portrait using the same technique to show our personality.

This was also great fun and here are some of our branch!!!

    
                             

                                                                                                

Thank you Clare for a great afternoon