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  lots of lovely orange/browns, golden touches,  deep copper brown, and a green tinge. I am starting to lose track but i have kept the buckets to  onion, avocado, gum leaves and copper sulphate (above) cotton, gauze and sateen (i think) ALL with added water from the creek this is tissue silk (above) loving the colours - onion on top and wool blanket below (onion dip first then gum leaves)

  strips of scrap matboard collaged all over prior to cutting up. No plan, no preconceived idea - using up scrap ephemera and gelli print fragments. The revitalisation of the project here. 53 pieces cut ready to pull the little design together - each one assessed on its own. Title of the project :  FROM HERE TO THERE.

  Cant wait to see what happens with these.  I took my indoor plant - Fatsima Japonica - and planted it outside next to the creek.  She is very happy there, doubling up each year, and this is the first year i noticed these berries.  They were harvested and wrapped up in the eco dye cloth - surprises in the unbundling - maybe tomorrow !. Fatsima Japonica last Spring

I began here 3 days ago. Day 3 and the third pass. I am losing exactly where i am at as i am now mixing it up.  Some of the first lot of cloth i have kept as is, others i have taken from the onion pot into the avocado pot and then, some of that lot back into the gum leaves and many of all these cloths, including some dry ones have gone into a copper pot. A few pieces are also already stitched works mainly monocolour and/or white on white.  I am using a repurposed urn and interchanging the buckets to heat them up.  It is fast becoming a dirty pot but i am liking a lot of the effects and colours that are coming up. 

I grabbed an armful of WHITE cloths, scraps and a blanket, soaked 3 separate buckets, 1 with onion skins, one with avocado pits and skins and a third with gum leaves from the forest.  I decided to commandeer my studio coffee urn (i will get a kettle!) and started heating up a brew.  (above:  a table runner - onion skins) Planning now to keep going with more white cloths but also to see /experiment with citric acid (as a bleacher) and copper sulphate to adjust colours ... fun!  loving the woven cloth and how the different textiles pick up the colour. that cloth to the right of the woven piece is a lovely rich colour. more lovely rich colour- waiting to see how it dries this was an overdye but nothing seemed to have happened so it will go into another pot today this piece started out well but its got a bit blotchy from the onion skins - will look at another process to adjust this one loving the beige colour in the blanket and the rich oranges (onion skin) although i di...

I was so excited to be a finalist in this exhibition. An update has been posted here on blackfisharts Art Gallery with a link to see the whole exhibition and this work in situ.  artist statement here.

  My Backyard Series - small cloth wall hangings - just putting them up in the shop - various cloth, plain and patterned, stitched collage style using my own freeform stitching, kantha and other.  Various cotton, wool, gauze, found repurposed cloth, cotton, silk and wool thread.  Details and blog posts here . available online

i am excited to be planning a trip to visit my lovely daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren which has prompted me to look at the foundart series i created first in 2007 .... 10 years ago. The theory began like this - create small business card sized artworks before going on an overseas trip.  Put a label on the back inviting the founder of a small artwork to comment on a dedicated blog.  Each piece is 'lost' (placed) somewhere in the world for someone in the world to find. See the wonderful comments that came in from finders of the art from the foundart series in Switzerland, Junction Festival Launceston, Italy and other. 2026-7 Spain - NOW ...what to call this series .... any ideas ? A dedicated site for each card was created here where the finder can comment.   do check out the great comments - i have pulled them all together here. A history HERE of the original idea prior to creating the dedicated site above. WHAT AI said when asked if my foundart series is the ...

botanical collage grab bag available online Alongside my larger exhibition canvases, my daily studio practice is an ongoing exploration of tactile layers, paper, and small-scale forms. I am thrilled to announce that a fresh collection of small works, original monoprints, and curated artist paper bundles has just been listed on my online shelves. 🌿 New Release: Premium Flora Photography Packs A hand-curated collection of 12 separate A4 sheets featuring my original, award-winning garden photography. Commercial laser printed on heavyweight 200gsm smudge-proof paper, these are built specifically to handle wet mixed-media layers, heavy gluing, and acrylic washes. 🌟 Featured Release: "Parshe" Fine Art Print This A4 piece is a strictly limited edition of just 13 prints, reproducing an original analogue collage featured in my recent solo exhibitions at Devonport Gallery and in Hobart. Each is hand-signed and numbered. All small works and paper bundles include complimentary tracked ...

 

I have opened an online shop for small original artworks, limited edition prints and collage packs of monoprint elements, vintage papers, text etc. check it out . blackfisharts   has been refreshed - its got a cleaner feel to it and is less  confusing i think. I have been uploading my mum's Hungarian recipes from time to time.   more recipes here. did you know i write poetry ? you will find my poetry online - it is mostly my published pieces and is under construction, slowly.  Regent Park has also got a new look ... this is where i blog about an artist lifestyle in country Tasmania.  We live with cats, a dairy cow in retirement, ducks, turbo chooks, wallabies, possums, a tiger snake and other wildlife.  Surrounded by a forest of gum trees and wattles interspersed around paddocks and a hill to climb there is a creek that flows through the acreage, home to platypus, blackfish, a variety of so many birds and an eel.  our youtube channel covers eve...

I have just moved to an online shop and have added these papers to my collage stash packs.  They have proven to be very popular in the past - original, one of a kind painted papers, monoprint fragments, text pages and acid-free tissue prints. As opposed to my general grab bag collage packs, this particular pack is one of a kind and what you see is what you get. (details below) available online more images and details here This is a single, one-of-a-kind studio collage pack containing 41 individual main pieces plus a bonus scrap bag, carefully curated from my daily art practice in Tasmania. Unlike my other mystery bundles, this listing is for the exact set photographed—each sheet has been laid out in groupings so you can see every texture, mark, and colour included. What’s Included in This Collection: Main Paper Stack (41 Pieces): - A5 & accent Sizes Mostly A5 size (approx. 14.8 x 21 cm / 5.8 x 8.3 inches), along with varied torn and cropped accent sizes. Bonus #1 standout Focal...