A new technique emerges

While working with wools, cottons and linens, I found the colours so evocative and delicious. So many skeins and cones of beautiful variegated yarns and the textured lines of the fabric just called to my fascination with line and perspective. With a great deal of experimenting,  the beginnings of land and seascapes started to emerge. 

Now with an eye to the layering, this technique has bought about some fascinating painting with textiles that seem to bewitch and hypnotize the viewer. While I am making them the emergence of these vistas just makes me want to live in each one.

Hand dying the yarns.

Learning the art of hand dying the yarns I use has become one of the intriguing parts of the process. The colours have to be chosen carefully and conservatively, which can be hard to do as the colours are wonderful and I have to restrain the urge to use them all.  This is also not a precise method but the outcome has its own delights, sometimes producing valuable elements I would not have expected.