JUNE MEETING–SATURDAY 9TH

‘BOOK FORMS’ with Jo Owen

Bookmaking has been a passion of Jo’s for many years, and over time these have evolved into Book Forms. The work is of mixed media, paper and fabrics, paints and dyes, with quite extensive hand stitching plus machine stitching.

She often uses traditional bookbinders stitching methods and the form opens out to display and closes up to store and transport. The resemblance to a book ends here as the forms twist and pop out into a multitude of shapes.

The talk includes a very short history of book binding and a power point presentation.

ALSO – DON’T FORGET WE HAVE TWO RAFFLES THIS MONTH -

The bumper twice yearly raffle – 3 baskets full of embroidery related goodies.

AND

Our Monthly Colour Raffle – ALEXANDRITE – Mauve.

‘Make Do and Mend’ Workshop with Priscilla Jones–May 13th

Sue Chisnall, our Programme Secretary reports with photographs -

This replacement workshop went very well.  It was  extremely messy using emulsion paint and lots more but a very relaxed day with some  lovely results - everyone enjoyed themselves and we all felt we could have done with a few more hours!!! 
Attached are some photos of Priscilla demonstrating and some of our members at work - the piece of work shown is Pat Beans.

Don’t forget to bring your work – finished or unfinished – to our June meeting so that we can all see the results.

Talk by Jo Landy–May 12th

Thanks to our Chairman, Sue Tyldesley, we had a very good replacement speaker at very short notice, who did a splendid job telling us all about her work with textiles.

Jo told us about her Open University and John Moore’s University degree courses - training as a Textile Artist, explaining that her main interests were – colour – dyeing; texture and a mix of techniques from weaving, knitting, machine and hand stitching to felt and print making.
A woman after my own heart – she cuts up and reuses many of her old textile samples and finished pieces, often over dyeing and printing to change the surface

As part of  a design group she exhibited fabric samples for textile designers at trade shows in Paris and one of these is shown above.

   

The above collaged  pieces both include  parts of older work and the bottom one has several ‘razor shells’ found on the beach at Formby.

Two felted and beaded necklaces made for a Craft event.

Thank you Jo - a very interesting talk.  If you want to see more of Jo’s work  she is a member of the newly opened Contemporary Arts Centre on Eastbank Street in Southport. 
and is also taking part in the Open Studios event from 26th May to 4th June – more details from arthousesca@gmail.com

 

SOUTHPORT CONTEMPORARY ARTS

SCA is a network of contemporary artist who live and work in Southport and surrounding areas, especially of interest to the branch as Sue Tyldesley is a member and participating artist.

This year they have opened their new base ArtHouse in Southport town centre with permanent gallery space, creative classes and artists studios at – 65 Eastbank Street, Southport.

They are holding an Arts Trail week from 26th May to 4th June when the gallery, artists studios and various other venues in Southport will be open to visit.

Contact them as follows - at 07738449376 or arthousesca@gmail.com    or 07541156119

Priscilla Jones–workshop requirements.

Priscilla will be providing all materials necessary to complete the day and these are covered in the days fee; however many of you will have materials of your own that you may wish to incorporate into the hangings so please feel free to bring whatever you like to the session so that you can create something that is personal to you!

Essential items required:
Scissors
An apron or old shirt
An idea to work from -  this could be a photo, postcard, magazine cutting or sketch-book
Sewing machine with free machine facility.  Also please make sure you bring  all your machine feet and sewing machine instructions. 
Some spare machine needles and empty machine spools

Suggested to bring:
Threads (machine and hand)
Fabrics of different qualities, patterned and plain
Lace, ribbons, haberdashery.
Buttons

THERE ARE STILL 3 PLACES AVAILABLE FOR THE DAY. PLEASE CONTACT SUE CHISNALL.

ICHF CREATIVE CRAFTS SHOW AT AINTREE

Six of our members who belong to the One Step On group, had work on display at this show – their work this year was based on ‘Tiffany’ designs and they had produced a variety of felted and stitched pieces.

More pictures can be found on their website -
onestepon.co.uk

  Carole Sams – Tile Box

  Anne Stark – Fantasy Peacock

  Pat Bean – Clematis

 Monica Selway – Morning Glory

 Sue Tyldesley – Tiffany Landscape

 Sandie Maher – Tiffany Poppies

AND THEN THERE WAS ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only member of the Branch who belongs to Preston Threads – our work based on COLOUR – all of us working on a collection of items using one colour with its shades and tones – made for an interesting display.
Everyone’s colour was chosen at random but I was lucky to get one of my favourite colours – BLUE.

A collection of books and bags.

Small abstract collage – paper and fabric – panel.

Our website can be found at – prestonthreads.co.uk

SATURDAY 12TH MAY– NEW TALK AND SUNDAY 13th MAY - NEW WORKSHOP

Unfortunately due to ill health Linda Rudkin will not be with us for this weekend  talk and workshop.
We wish her well and hope she will soon be recovered.

However, due to a lot of re-arrangement by our Chairman and Programme Secretary we have now organised the following -

The Talk on Saturday will be by Jo Landy, a  member of the Southport Contemporary Arts Group. 
Her talk is called from 'Print to Stitch' and is about her personal journey in textiles and the use of multi media to reach design conclusions- she will be bringing samples of her work etc.
Look her up at: southportcontemporaryarts.com/JoLandy

Photographs of her work are shown below -

 

The Sunday workshop will be with Priscilla Jones  and is titled -  ‘MAKE DO AND MEND’.  Requirements list will be available at the Saturday meeting or contact Sue Chisnall.
Priscilla graduated from MMU in 1997 and if you want to see what she does go to priscilljones.wordpress.com and it will take you to her website – lovely pictures of her work.

ALSO for those of you who take STITCH magazine – her work is on this month’s cover and she has details of a project inside.
Should be a good day – wish I could come but have other commitments.