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“Colour & Form” Exhibition is now open
My Colour & Form Exhibition is now open to the public. Dates: 5 February to 4 April, 2024. I’m thrilled to announce that after months of planing and preparation my first solo exhibition is now open to the public.
“Beyond The Stitch” Exhibition
I had a lot of fun in September and October, collaborating with my friends Jann and Fran on our Beyond The Stitch textile art exhibition
Art Quilt Exhibition “Beyond The Stitch”
Three friends, Fran Batrouney, Leslie Edwards and Jann Haggart, each display their unique approaches to textile art. Lockdowns created a good atmosphere for these three friends to indulge in an extended period of creativity.
My Showcase 2023
My quilting friends know that I like to experiment with hand-dyed fabric and using the pieces more non-traditionally. At the Vic Quilters Showcase 2023 this year, I entered a quilt of my design made entirely from Turtle Hand hand-dyed batik fabrics.
Rainbow after the storm – a leafy experiment
Recently a massive storm went through Victoria, and with a thunderous crash, we lost an enormous eucalyptus tree in the back of our property. To most, my husband included, this presented a problem. How are …
Moving on from 2020
2020 was a challenging year for everyone. For my business, markets stopped, and teaching events were non-existent. That released me to become extremely creative in a weird way.
Video – Unwrapping eco-dyed silk parcels
Recently I have been eco-dyeing a lot of silk fabric. As with most hand-dyed fabric, you are never really sure what the result will be.
Going around and around in circles
For some inexplicable reason, I have become obsessed with circles during this pandemic isolation.