June 19th - Fabric birds - Gail Tutcher
We spent a lovely relaxed afternoon making fabric birds with Gail. She had put together a power point presentation., leading us step by step through the process.
Some of us used the beads that we had made during our May bead making workshop.
Here are some of the results of the afternoon
5th June Building on Tradition - Batik - Jenny O'Leary
Since 2005 Jenny
O'Leary has been exploring and developing her work in Batik working mainly with
tissue paper, hot wax, bleach and inks often combined with stitch and mixed
media. She used examples of her work to illustrate her talk and explain her
enthusiasm and continued passion for this technique.
She told us that as she is not exhibiting at the moment, so she has been creating small pieces of work inspired by her daily walks.
Hot wax is traditionally applied as a resist to white
fabric. However Jenny has developed a technique of applying the wax to collaged
coloured tissue. This is then bleached in areas and the inks are then
reapplied. She has used beeswax, and paraffin wax but now uses soya wax.. The
bleach Jenny uses is Milton and is sometimes applied through a stencil.
Jenny also uses a brushable wax in her sketchbooks as it is
easier to control.
The tools she uses are the traditional Tjanting but also
items such as pastry brushes, bamboo calligraphy pens and card.
Her work during lockdown is taken from the photos from her
walks and not only uses the techniques described above but also monoprints and
drawings on both tissue and also teabag paper. She then glues these onto Khadi
paper to mount them.
Here are some images of her work
