June 9th meeting–update

A PICTURE UPDATE -
At Priscilla Jones’ workshop in May, members had been encouraged to create ‘pictures’ and the one shown below by Sue Chisnall is based on items from her kitchen including a grapefruit in a bowl. 
Created from a variety of lace scraps, fabric oddments, paint, beads and both hand and machine stitching.
Looks really good in real life, but where were the rest of your pictures – please bring to the next meeting if you can remember!

Our half year bumper raffle was again a great success with 3 baskets of goodies being handed out to the lucky ladies.
Remember that Carolyn will be starting to collect items for the Christmas raffle now so don’t throw anything away just because you don’t use it any more.

 

June 9th - Talk by Jo Owen–”Book Forms”

Jo had brought a selection of ‘Books’ of all kinds that she had produced over the last 20 years – from the very traditional bound books to the very experimental types that she now does which are very loosely stitched together to form sculptural pieces.

Many have almost 200 pages of a mix of fine and cartridge papers, cotton organdie and other fabrics which Jo paints and decorates. 
These include Zig-zag concertina books and Origami folded type books which are all exquisitely decorated with coloured stitching, beads etc.

Jo accompanied her talk with a Power Point presentation which included historic reference to Indian and Chinese ‘books’ of many kinds.

As a dedicated ‘book maker’ myself also for the last 20 years I really enjoyed this talk and know that the members present were also fascinated with the twisting forms made by Jo’s sculptural “books”.

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.