'Little Houses'. I have had a rusted and stamped fabric background for awhile rolled up in a drawer. Saw a quilt in Hamilton a few weeks ago that had a street of little houses across it and thought it would be perfect for my languishing pieces. They aren't, so they are going to Barbara Kavermann for a street of little houses she wants to do. However, I'm wondering if little houses done in a neutral colourway may work. They may have to go back in the drawer for another few months.

Louise Gardiner Workshop

Loads of fun working freestyle on 10oz canvas. Louise uses basic creativity tools to get your head around the 'I can't draw' issue. Drawing to music, without looking at the paper and then playing with your sewing machine. She has a nifty reverse applique technique that I love.

This a portrait of Yoke Helwes-Martens without looking at the paper and not lifting the pen. The main stitching is done on the back using the drawing and then the fun starts. She looks very serious and I think she may have an issue with threads coming out of her nose!

'Beyond My Door' ArtsPost Hamilton September 2010.

La Porte Verde (top) and Il Vicolo (bottom) in situ.

Images from a not so recent trip that included 5 days in the Cinque Terre, Italy. Recent photographs are set into heavily manipulated cloth creating layers and evoking a sense of history and of people, past and present, who have passed this way before. The door is symbolic of this past and present.