Guild
Workshop: Colouring Fabric 1988
I was lucky enough to get a place in Deborah Brearley’s Fabric Painting Workshop, 4 Jun 1988. Deborah was into her work with cyanotype and I see (from doing a little more net surfing!) that the QNH now operates a gallery on its premises and had Deborah’s work on show in 2012.
Not only was this day a chance to work with
Deborah Brearley and learn from her, but this Geelong Quilters Guild workshop
was play time – big time! We had a great
day dabbling with Pebeo fabric paints/dyes and made some interesting and useful
samples. I particularly enjoyed the basic introduction to shibori work.
It was also a useful connect with the art I had studied over the years in Brisbane and made me realise the possibilities for moving away from quilting’s traditional form. I suspect that I was still in learning mode however and didn’t feel that I wanted to delve headlong into art quilts at that time. I was (and still am) inspired by graphic forms produced from traditional blocks and modern colour.
I enjoyed this course so much and was so inspired that I have since taken a number of courses in fabric dyeing and texturing. Not that I have produced too much in the way of work with the pieces I’ve painted or dyed since…. Oh well, one day!
I was lucky enough to get a place in Deborah Brearley’s Fabric Painting Workshop, 4 Jun 1988. Deborah was into her work with cyanotype and I see (from doing a little more net surfing!) that the QNH now operates a gallery on its premises and had Deborah’s work on show in 2012.
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It was also a useful connect with the art I had studied over the years in Brisbane and made me realise the possibilities for moving away from quilting’s traditional form. I suspect that I was still in learning mode however and didn’t feel that I wanted to delve headlong into art quilts at that time. I was (and still am) inspired by graphic forms produced from traditional blocks and modern colour.
I enjoyed this course so much and was so inspired that I have since taken a number of courses in fabric dyeing and texturing. Not that I have produced too much in the way of work with the pieces I’ve painted or dyed since…. Oh well, one day!
