At last the blog is up to date thanks to my son. Somehow I had two addresses and now I have transferred the images from the old one.
Moon-made friends was made for the recent exhibition in the Weavers Gallery, Ledbury, entitled The Dymock poets. The poem that inspired this piece was Iris by Night by Robert Frost, one of my favourite poets. It tells about an encounter that Frost and his friend Edward Thomas had, while walking late one summer afternoon in the Malverns. It was wet and the light formed a rainbow which magically encircled them. I started the design for this piece from lichen circles which I re- drew and distorted. When I finished the design and cut and appliqued the pieces I really didn't like the result. I am in the habit of bonding down the random cut out shapes from a piece of work and had done this on a long piece of calico using the negative shapes. This was a far more interesting design and I used it as the basis for the piece above. The text from the poem was printed onto some transparent non woven fabric I had acquired and looked suitably watery. Both the rainbow and the moon were appliqued and the whole piece was also hand stitched in vertical lines.
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