New Brooche's

I have been exploring, working with different materials, trying to understand how they move and it it suits my visions. I normally work with fabric's and I can see that it suits me but I want to explore fabric's from a different perspective what that is I am not sure as yet. I have started to play with resin by making Brooches to try and learn how to use it as well as understand the best way to apply it to my ideas....................... Loads to learn:-)

New brooche in town

Check out this item in my Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/listing/270195390/mini-cushion-brooche

Mini cushion broach

Working on some new ideas, tell me what you think...

Sunday creativity

Just working on a few creative ideas. What do you think?

William and rain

It's been a long time, far to long.
I have just finished a workshop gig at William Morris Gallery, which I really enjoyed, it did run over time but that's because I was really getting into it and didn't take note of the time.  I was given a lift to the station by a fellow artist who was also working on the event but in another room, we chewed the fat for a short while then I jumped out the car. As I was about to run to the station my stomach started to talk to me and of course I had to heed its voice, so I diverted to a corner shop not thinking whether I had any money luckly I found a pound and purchased a packet of crisps... Mmm very nurtrise but I tell you this it helped. I boarded the tube, found a seat and settled down waiting for my stop, in front of me was a lovely women and her child, all seem well so I thought, how wrong was I. The young child looked sleepy and rested her head on her mother's shoulder. Like a flash she leaned forward and vomited, I managed to move my feet out of the way before the vomit hit the ground. I felt so sorry for the child but also glad that I didn't get hit by the projectile. I hope the both got home safe.  It's the worse thing ever when your child is sick but being out with them and they are sick their is a sense of helpless you feel and I saw that in the mothers eyes. I hope they are both OK.

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MONTH

Sue Hotchkis


Artist Statement

I am an artist with a passion for texture, surface and space. I create unique printed and stitched abstract pieces.
I gain inspiration wherever I travel; this is often found in the insignificant and overlooked. I’m particularly drawn to man-made objects that have been distressed by the passage of time. As in the Japanese aesthetic wabi-sabi, I treasure the imperfections found in the natural changes that occur in such things as weathered walls, rusting metal or peeling paint
I aim to create fragment like pieces that realize these aesthetic qualities, challenging perceptions of beauty in our surroundings. Where rotting wood can become a multifaceted surface of overlapping threads or mould a lacelike intricate print. Crumbling walls are transformed into the tactile and beautiful.
Initially I study the photographs I’ve taken of a specific place or object. Then I work with its qualities, colour, form, texture and composition, creating hand dyed and screen printed images onto fabric. These fabrics are then either left as they are or they may be manipulated, torn, ripped, layered and further worked on with stitch by hand and machine. I work intuitively responding to what develops; pieces are often constructed only to be deconstructed. The pieces evolve over time and the process can take weeks or often months.

As i lie awake

International Women’s Month 8th Feb - 8th March 2013

AS I “LIE” AWAKE

As i lie awake I ponder the world and wot my part in it is, is this world a “lie” are we feed lies to keep us hungry!

If you would like to take part in the exhibition please feel free to contact me or just send me your jpegs to eoniri@yahoo.co.uk

Do you where a suit *2

International Women’s Month 8th Feb-8th March
DO YOU WHERE A SUIT *2

Would you like to take part? if so jpeg only eoniri@yahoo.co.uk

Do you put on a suit?

International Women’s month 8th Feb - 8th March 2013
DO YOU PUT ON A SUIT?

Do you feel that you put on a suit everyday or is it just who you are?, the way you were made may have less value in some places but its not about what others think of you its how you think of yourself?

if you would like to contribute please send me your images jpeg to eoniri@yahoo.co.uk

We are our own reflection

International Women’s Month 8th feb-8 march 2013
WE ARE OUR OWN REFLECTION

If you would like to submit a piece please send me a jpeg of your work to eoniri@yahoo.co.uk

lady in waiting - international women's month 8th feb - 8th March

 
LADY IN WAITING

These image has been in the making for a while.  I have been making separate pieces while not really thinking about where it was going, or should say where it was leading me.  I seem to be creating a puzzle of sorts that I have pieced together to create these composed image- story’s if you like.
let me know what you think.

If you would like to take part in exhibiting your work on my blogs please send jpeg to eoniri@yahoo.co.uk
 

Glammammama

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(My) International Women’s Month

Glammamamma

My friend, Quilting Mafia, asked me to contribute to International Women’s Month.  International Women’s Day, started on 1^st February, but she is carrying it through the whole of the month.

I have been making and creating for many years, and my friend, Quilting Mafia, asked me to contribute to International Women’s Week, which starts this month, but she is carrying it through the whole of the month.

I have been making and creating for many years, and have decided to share my work with all the world’s women.

Last year, Suzanne in a tester group, which met each month to weave, taught me.

All the weavings were based around spirituality, whether you were religious or not, as religion, beliefs were not the focus point.

After some time, we learnt to weave a Doll on a frame using yarns as the warp (left to right) threads, and then the ‘fabric’ was cut from the frame.  The sides were sewn together then the centre was filled with small pebbles, then dried pulses, rice, and died, scented flowers or petals.  I filled my doll with lentils, dried leaves, scented with essential oils and an amber stone at the base.

Her head is made with needle felted, merino wool, with Swarovski glass for eyes.

She is wearing a head wrap, 6made from a webbed yarn, which I used to weave her body.

During each part of making the doll, I thought about how she/I would ‘be’.  

Will she be tall, short, even the skin colour  As you can see, she is has a green face. 

Moreover, that’s because, it’s the colour of the felted bead, I had in my stash!

Her name is ‘Countess Carmelita’, and she is going out for the day.

She has no physical money, but she uses cowrie shell beads, as currency, which you can see, i have sewn on her back.

The ‘Countess’, is a strong, powerful, woman, who likes her independence and individuality.

She may be western born, but has a proud culture, which is not always obvious by the clothes she wears, but talk to her, and she will wax lyrical about the time she spent in Africa and the Caribbean.

I hope you like her and feel inspired to take part in International Women’s Month

Peace & Love

Glammamamma

International Women's Day

International women’s day is nearly here
Would you like to join me and creating some pieces to exhibit on my tumbler & google blog for the whole duration of feb & march. Get in contact with me if u r up for it. I would like us all to put the images or sound on our Facebook, twitter, flicker etc accounts this is open to all genders. wot ever way u want to make ur mark is cool . Let’s keep it clean but artistic. Images should be jpegs with details of size, title of piece & materials used. Sound i am not sure but sound cloud is good ( workin on dat) Please reblog this, the more the merrier- happy new year;-)

If you would like to send me some of your work please email it to me at eoniri@yahoo.co.uk

Call for submission

LYNN PAINTER-STAINERS PRIZE 2013


19 February to 2 March 2013
The Mall Galleries, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5BD
Open Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm – Admission free

The Winner and Runners-up of this prestigous award for painting  will be announced on 18 February.  Artists Tom Coates and Henry Gibbons Guy will be holding free workshops during the exhibition at the Mall Galleries. Come and practice your skills and learn new ones.  To find out more please click HERE or telephone Parker Harris on 01372 462190.

image:  Red Studio by James Lloyd



THE ROOTSTEIN HOPKINS DRAWING 2013


CALL FOR ENTRIES

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: 1 MARCH 2013
This is the only juried drawing prize founded specifically for those in part-time adult education in London, and aims to investigate drawing as a way of thinking, as a process and as a means of expression in all of its diverse forms and is intended to promote and showcase an exceptional breadth of work.

Drawings will be selected by an independent panel of judges for exhibition at the Morley Gallery, London SE1.  For further details and to enter online please click HERE

image:  Maxine by Laura Bushell


abstractcritical WRITER'S PRIZE 2013


CALL FOR WRITERS

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: 1 APRIL 2013
abstractcritical  is delighted to announce the abstractcritical  Writer’s Prize, which seeks to discover talented young writers, with the winner receiving £500 and the opportunity to publish a series of articles on abstractcritical.com.  The judges of the abstractcritical Writer’s Prize are Sam Cornish, Robin Greenwood and Anna Moszynska.  For further information click HERE



DERWENT ART PRIZE 2013


CALL FOR ENTRIES

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES:  1 JULY 2013
The aim of the Prize is to reward excellence through showcasing the very best works created in pencil by British and international artists, offering prizes of up to £8,750.  Artists can submit work created with any charcoal, pastel, graphite, water-soluble and coloured pencils on any 2 or 3 dimensional support.

Entries will be judged by a distinguished panel of selectors:
Yvonne Crossley, Director of The Drawing Gallery in Shropshire. Professor Stephen Farthing RA, artist
Fisun Güner, journalist and freelance visual arts writer

For further information and to enter online click HERE



NATIONAL OPEN ART COMPETITION 2013


CALL FOR ENTRIES

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: 31 JULY 2013
Now in its 17th year, and with an impressive total prize fund of £40,000, the National Open Art Competition is calling for entries for the 2013 competition. Mediums including painting, drawing, photography, original prints, wall hung installations and computer generated art may be submitted for the competition.

For further information and to enter online click HERE

image:  The Lacemaker by Joy Wolfenden-Brown

British Design

Today  I was very lucky to work with an amazing textile designer on her lovely Harris Tweed Teacup Workshop inspired by British Designed ceramics, she is lovely and very  talented Emma Dolan. It was hosted by the Victoria and Albert Museum - it was brilliant

http://www.emmadolan.co.uk

Work in progress

I have been working on some pieces where i have been using silk as my paper and drawing onto normal paper and photocopying the image onto heat transfer paper - i know lots of paper mentioned:-) i have been working on them for the last 18mths and i still haven’t finished as yet.  The reason for that is I want to keep the work fresh from my point of view - overworking it when the piece is not ready so …. i stop for a while and do something else until it calls me back.  I haven’t finished them as yet……..

let me know what you think of them so far

Online

http://quiltingmafia.bigcartel.com The sun is shining, which is always wonderful to see and feel but yesterday was so cold and unfriendly. What am I going on about, you mustn't live in the past you must live in the present and maybe the  future? I feel that you must acknowledge the past and learn form it to be able to have a better future.  I have never been that great with my online presences but I have found that it is really needed to further my artistic endeavours.  So with that in mind I have opened an online store so that the world can now see some of the things i make.

I hope you are able to come visit me sometime, don't be a stranger now

sunday morning ritual

Sunday afternoon ritual coffee and cakes, triple baked banana and almond cake and freshly ground coffee.  Coffeepot Wedgewood from my collection and porcelain cup and saucer and side plate, not forgetting the wonderful art cloth produced by Quilting Mafia.  

Tea Cloth or Art Cloth?

I have long had a love for fabric which has caused me to meet so many wonderful people and experience so many brilliant things, I want to apply it to my everyday life and not just my creative life which in the past was not my everyday life if you get what I mean?
Paying the bills that's what is needed to exist on this level at the moment but the way in which I really want to exist on a daily basis is through and with creativity.  What am I getting at?  Well, I have made a firm decision to move forward with my creativity this being at the for front of my daily existence, to beautify my mundane duties such as the drying the dish's after they have been washed up.

I have started to create some Tea Cloths/Towels and Art Cloths

You can have a closer look if you want and you can even purchase one or even some:-) 

Now available at  Blossoming Together

Arts and Craft Gallery Cafe'

4 Tanner's Hill

London SE8 4PJ

07939266771

www.blossomingtogether.com   

You will also be able to buy them from 5th January 2012 @

www.quiltingmafia.etsy.com

Digital Portfolio Submission

There are many sides to who I am and I have still to discover who I can be and I look forward to it.  Being able to explore my creativity in an environment that not only discover and nurtures new talents but set standard for other to follow, this is a place that I know that I belong.  I am a mother, an artist, designer and educator and proud to hold all these self appointed titles. 

The body has inspired the Collection of work. 

Osteoporosis

Is about the darkness of a disorder and how beautiful that darkness can be, but how do we bring attention to this cause that is so dark and unpalatable.  In My collection I discuss the idea of beautifying a cause to make it palatable.  I hope to draw interest and concern rather than recoil from a disorder that affects so many. 

Osteoporosis is a textile collection using stitch, natural fiber fabric, heat press printing.

Structure of the Ear

Is about the Pin Point Introspective.  Looking back and into inner self, with the way my work is presented tends to visual but I wanted to explore my other strong sense; my pleasure in listen I need to listen to my inner self and surrounding.

Structure of the Ear is a screen/lino printed series printed on watercolour paper with line produced with pencil then scanned and distorted.

All art work was created by Elizabeth Oniri, the screen printed image where photocopied from a medical book and the spliced images are from detailed drawings from a medical book about osteoporosis.