Monday 16 April 2012

APRIL TALK BY JANET BROWNE

What an amazing afternoon we had and what a huge amount of work Janet brought to show us – not just her stitched pieces but the actual drawings in full colour, for all of the pieces as well.
Someone after my own heart - she can’t possibly have time for housework.  I have great admiration for someone who can be so focused – a real treat for us all to see this display she had brought with her.

She explained that she had spent almost all her life ‘drawing’ her journeys – from the car, the train, plane and on foot – worked in 100 metre sections to form a 1000 metre ‘walk’ which, to fit on a page or a finished piece of embroidery has, over the years, become a series of ‘zig-zag’ or ‘up and down’ works. 
So different from anything I had ever seen before and I do envy those who will be attending her summer school course at Alston this year.

In addition to her walks, she has picked out from some of them, birds, flowers, gardens and allotments to concentrate on for a different collection of pieces so from one idea, many others have evolved – Janet says these are not ‘new works’ but parts of her originals.

She maps out her work by first doing a full scale colour painting of the idea which is then translated into a tracing attached to a backing of various suitably dyed fabrics before building up layers of stitch for the foreground.

P1020359  A walk in Cornwall.

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Another one from Cornwall.

P1020363A local village walk.

P1020358 Some of her birds.

P1020360Janet’s garden.

Photographs taken with Janet’s permission.

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