Jill Flower - Textile Artist

Artist in Action at Harrogate with Art Van Go

2011-12-09T07:44:00.000-08:00

The story so far......I was invited by Viv and Kevin from Art Van Go to become one of their 'Artists in Action'. This is where we are allowed to play with all their art materials,fabrics , papers and a mountain of mediums. What Fun!
As I love experimenting with papers and 3D objects, I set the challenge to dress two lovely manniquins.
One Manniquinn dressed with art papers which started out as white but added brightly coloured dyes,marks and prints. The second I destroyed a magazine and reassembled it with the aid of tissue paper,gesso, paints and print.

The proccess was quite slow due to waiting for the papers to dry, so I used the wall space as my washing line!
This is the journey the dresses took over the four days, we believe 30,000 visitors came to the four day show so there was alot of chatting between the slopping of paint and explanations of what we were up to.

Day One

Day Two

Day Three

Day Four

This dress had a swirling train that wrapped around the base but some how no image came out.

Detail images follows

Shortly I hope to receive images from Art Van Go from their roving photographer

Really enjoyed the show and the project.

The manniquinns are now in my Home studio and one day will dismantle the papers to re use in a sketch book or two!

Artist in Action at Harrogate with Art Van Go

2011-12-07T06:38:00.000-08:00

I was invited by Viv and Kevin at Art Van Go to join a team of artists to demonstrate paints ,dyes and printing blocks and mediums. It was like a child in a sweet shop! We had the complete use of all their wonderful products.
As a 3 dimensional artist, I set myself a challenge to 'dress' two manniquins and during the four day event at the Knit & Stitch Show. One manniquin to be dressed in the conventional art papers available but with the addition of colour , the second figure using magazines. Here are the manniquins as seen on the first day..........

Second day

The artpaper dress developed using proceon dyes, printing blocks and marcel pens.

Really enjoyed making this dress, sloshing bright colours on papers, printing and making marks finally manipulating the papers to form a flambouyant party dress .....very 'strictly come dancing'!

I loved the gaps in the dress showing the wire frame but had two more days to go, so more layers would be required.

Day three and four will follow!

Blackpool

2011-09-13T04:06:00.000-07:00

Behined the times as usual! Had a very busy summer but made a trip to Blackpool and here are the results of the young students who had only just learnt to use a sewing machine the day before:

Chichester

2011-07-12T02:01:00.000-07:00

At last, some new photos.

Apologise for the delay......these are from a Textile group in Chichester, yet another fun day.

Sunderland Exhibition

2011-06-08T05:59:00.000-07:00

Thank you for the lovely trip up to Sunderland, had a wonderful time and lots of fun. Here are the photos as promised.....Well done to everyone who took part!!!

Ashbourne Embroiderers Guild

2011-05-26T11:07:00.000-07:00

Last weekend I travelled up to Derbyshire and then on to Sunderland. On Saturday I met with the Ashbourne Embroiderers Guild branch and we had a lot of fun and here are the results.

Look out for the Sunderland workshop day photos from next week.

Back in the Studio

2011-05-10T08:17:00.000-07:00

I am back in the studio after a fantastic break travelling around Asia. I have taken lots of inspiration from all the stitch work and fantastic colours I saw in Hong Kong, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. I now have plenty of material to add too my 'Mood Wall'!

can anyone spot my real inspiration?

I took my trustworthy pocket sketch book on my travels and sketched down some great designs that caught my eye.

I hope one day to use these sketches in my work.

By the way check out this blog from a very talented artist I know http://jessicacsanky.blogspot.com/.

I will be teaching a workshop up in Ashbourne, Derbyshire and Gateshead, Sunderland very shortly so I hope to have more photos of students work.

Twitter

2011-04-10T05:59:00.000-07:00

Hi all! just to let you know that you can now find me on twitter http://twitter.com/#!/Jill_Flower

Chelmsford Ladies

2011-04-03T06:14:00.000-07:00

We had fun day at Chelmsford and the lovely ladies produced a little brooch each!

Plus the journey back was fine.

An Exhibition coming up....'Women and their Art'
12th -16th April 2011 10am-4pm
Bourne Hall Spring Street Ewell KT17 1UF
I will have a few pieces of work in the display
In the aid of Soroptimist International of Epsom & District

PS. Have had wonderful news my son at Univesity in Japan is coming home early , a great mothers day gift!

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2011-03-13T04:32:00.000-07:00

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Had a lovely workshop in Worthing yesterday and, with their kind permission, I am posting a couple of photos showing the results of the day!

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2011-03-13T04:13:00.000-07:00

Jill Flower - Textile Artist: "Still trying to work this computer out..... have had a very topsy-turvy week, just completed a couple of workshops,at my home studio and at ..."

Jill Flower - Mixed media and textile artist:

2011-03-12T14:28:00.000-08:00

Still trying to work this computer out.....
have had a very topsy-turvy week, just completed a couple of workshops,at my home studio and at Winchester and Worthing. I hope with some 'geek' teaching to be able to show the ladies work ( with their kind permission)
Shortly, I will be visiting Chelmsford , Essex and a School locally (Guildford) as the visiting artist to help the children complete a community project , their work will be on exhibition in the Summer.....more about this in a few weeks.
But the topsy-turvy feeling and lack of concentration(unable to conquer the image/computer problems!) is due to the fact my son is at University in Japan....we have all been 'shaken & strirred' by the news and images.
Thankfully we have made contact and Andrew is safe & well.
The Students of the College sound amazing as they offered their help and assistance immediately, and are now raising funds for the victims of the Earthquake/Tsumami.
One proud mum!
Now I'm going to see if I push the right button this may get on to the BLOG (I've written this SO many times!!)

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2011-03-12T11:18:00.000-08:00

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2011-03-08T06:05:00.000-08:00

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2011-03-08T05:55:00.000-08:00

My first Blog

2011-03-04T06:40:00.001-08:00

Hi everyone
I will be adding information to my new blog but this is just the beginning........