So what am I going to have on my table at MMM? Good question, as this is my first "craft" market I'm a little bit green to say the least, and all of a sudden 1.8 metres of table seems like a lot! So I have a lot of cards that I've sold before, and my woolly jumper birds, the chooks I've shown here , plus tuis, owls and fantasy birds (which I must take some good photos of!). Then there are my "end of the line" brooches made from a London Underground tea towel, which I've also shared here.
That's the woolly side of my making, the other half is more wooden. I collect alot of driftwood. Not any old driftwood, but wood that was used on land to make things before it ended up in the sea. My most precious bits are ones which have paint on them, none of which I've made anything out of yet! One day ..... I have however (to appease the hubby who is horrified about the growing piles of wood in the shed) started to use some of my wood. The first things I made were embroidered wooden hearts which can be wall hung or propped as shown above. Being an artist I also want to paint on wood, like I've done before and thought I'd blogged about, but alas not - instead there is a photo on my facebook page here, in case you are interested!
So, finally after lot of umming and ahhing some wood was chosen, a piece of steel was found, holes were drilled, gesso was applied, paint was painted and voila! A painted, wooden "thing" - not sure that I can call it a painting or a sculpture..... I can tell you it represents the land and sea, summer and winter, female and male - all very yinny and yanggy. As to whether it has any appeal to the discerning public, only time will tell.
kia ora Sally
ReplyDeleteyour timber sculptures have such an organic feel to them and i can imagine them sitting comfortably in a kiwi home by the sea
hope the market goes well
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amazing....
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