Flow Past a Square Object

This piece is an interpretation of flow past a square object.  For reasons that I can neither fathom nor correct images 2 through 7 have downloaded in portrait (rather than the original landscape) orientation. Apologies. 

The shape of this piece is reminiscent of traditional paisley designs and so I have worked it in that manner.

 The colours progress from vibrant hues down to soft pastels at the right hand end of the work.

Simple varied stitches provide the detail

Soft pastel colours resulting in a reposeful finish.

The square object subtly worked in french knots.

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Fluid Thread

Another (as yet) untitled piece in my flow series.  This image represents a viscous fluid thread filament in a non-viscous fluid.

Stitches used:  satin stitch, stem stitch and french knots.

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The Day the Heavens Blazed

The work below is another in my Flow series.  It is titled "The Day the Heavens Blazed".  Curiously, it was only on finishing the work that I realised what I had created.  This work was created around the one year anniversary of the Kinglake bushfires that so devastated the community that I had only recently lived and worked in.  On completion I realised that I had recreated the burning red skies of that most terrible of days.

Habotai silk is dyed in a variety of reds glowing through the blue organza overlay.

Glass seed beads add texture and emphasise the depths of the folds.

French knots, stem stitch and running stitch in hand dyed silk.

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Welcome to Silk and Colour

Welcome to Silk and Colour.  On this blog I will be posting news about my hand embroidered artworks and the things that inspire me.  My first solo show is scheduled for later this year.  In the intervening weeks I will be posting images of my work.

The title of my show is Continuum.  The show will feature 2 series of works:  the Crop Circle series (9 works) and the Flow Series (21 works).

Part of the Flow Series, this work is based on a scientific experiment that recreated a type of flow pattern known as a Von Karman Vortex.  The ground fabric is silk habotai overlaid with hand dyed silk 

organza .

Detail showing stitching in random long and short stitch and seed stitching.

Detail 2.

Detail 3.

Detail 4

Thousands of random seed stitches and longer random stitches give texture and depth to the background.

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