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My creative challenge for 2018 is Taking Shape: Cues from Nature where I make a 50x50cm abstract textile painting with a focus on shape. I have endeavoured to strip out line from my designs for this exercise, but in the face of the out-stretched form of the umbrella tree flowers, resistance was futile! I decided […]

My creative challenge for 2018 is Taking Shape: Cues from Nature where I make a 50x50cm abstract textile painting with a focus on shape. This month I went looking for inspiration in the rockpools at the northern end of the beach at Copacabana. First I saw the birds, a heron and a cormorant.      Then […]

It’s September and month eight of my creative challenge for 2018 Taking Shape: Cues from Nature. This time I am revisiting the crest of cockatoos. For Week 35 of my Weekly Art Project, I copied the yellow sulphur colour pretty faithfully:     It was fun to reimagine this design on a larger scale in turquoise […]

It’s August and I am seven months into my creative challenge for 2018 Taking Shape: Cues from Nature. This time my inspiration is the ornamental blooms of the lantana thickets that are invasive weeds in this part of the world: While lantana flowers are not technically hexagon-shaped, a variation of the traditional grandmother’s garden layout […]

I am six months into my creative challenge for 2018 Taking Shape: Cues from Nature – a monthly art project. I am planning to do a cycle of 12 months so this is hump month! It seems only fitting that my artwork depict a humpback whale. It’s winter here in Copacabana and I vary the […]