Textiles

'Circles of Friends' 2011 120cm x 180cm

'Comfortable Friends' (2011) 220cm x 220cm

I looooooovvvvveeeee textiles. They are an endless source of inspiration and fun. When you think of textiles, you may just think of cloth but there is so much more to this medium than cloth alone. There is paper, plantlife, dyes - natural and synthetic, computer cable, wire, mesh ... it really is endless.

This was the original colour inspiration for my finished pieces. I love the colours used in this cloth.

These are some of the pieces recently completed. The square quilted piece is completely hand stitched with the exception of the border and each piece of fabric was given to me by a girlfriend and nothing was new.

Some pieces were formerly clothing while some was old bedlinen. Each piece was dyed using a range of dyes, from food colouring, gum leaves, onion skins through to synthetic dyes.

The biggest thing to appreciate about this wonderful artform is the amount of time it takes to complete a piece. Textiles in any form equals 'time'.

This cloth was made using a bag of rags that were joined together using random cutting. They were then wrapped and dyed using Eucaluptus leaves to create the base for the stitched circles. The circles are to represent the circle of friends that if you are lucky, you have throughout a life time.