I close the year by celebrating some beautiful happenings in the studio and beyond in pictures.
continuing to experiment with nature’s colours
This year I began working with natural dyes. I enjoy the subtlety and the vibrancy of the colours and the way they can transform with heat or perhaps a dash of iron, lemon juice or ash from the fire. Things I used to throw away, like beetroot or onion skins, have become treasure. It is an exciting adventure.
These screen-printed bookmarks celebrate a rainbow of natural colours. The hues are made from leftover beetroot skins, coreopsis flowers, Persian berries, weld flowers, madder root, brazilwood, logwood and chlorophyllin of alfalfa and nettles.
An experiment with the colours from coreopsis flowers (orange) and buckthorn berries (yellow), which are stencilled onto hemp that is lightly pre-dyed lightly with madder root. The pattern has its origins in my quantum interference designs.
This zig zag pattern was made by stencilling a single triangle motif on lightly coloured hemp. The blue was made in the kttchen from purple carrots.
Celebrating and discovering our world together
It has been great fun to hold workshops at The Science Museum and Tate Modern and to enjoy various dance projects made with friends from The Place.
“The Sun and Us”. A cosy late Friday afternoon, sharing the wonders of our nearest star at Tate Modern’s '‘Power to Change’ Festival. With physicist Harry Cliff and participants as part of ‘The Great Imagining’ project.
”Draw the Sun” at The London Science Museum on the weekend of October 9 and 10th and part of the Imperial College Exhibition Road Festival.
Six workshops in two days. We explored the Sun and how artists and scientists have pictured it over the years, and how their artworks compare to images captured by modern telescopes. Then we made drawings of our own. Thanks to physicist collaborators: Brian Tam, William Martin, Ravi Desai and Harry Cliff.
“Elemental dances” live at Lady Eleanor Holles School. Some of the members of the newly formed lunchtime club led by drama teacher Miss Torrent (pictured far left) and STEM lead Mr Brittain, to explore Nature through movement using the ‘Elemental dances’ videos. This Friday they discovered the six ways a water molecule vibrates and rotates. In the video, dance artist Yanaëlle Thiran (pictured) shared her choreography and Imperial College physicist Chris Ho explained.
