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Art, blue, delphiniums, drawing, drawing with threads, embroidery, exhibitions, landscape, Loire France, pink, purple, stitch
I’m often asked what I am going to do next, and the answer is usually I dont know, I have to wait and see. I am constantly looking at land formations, light patterns, textures and so on, and will draw or make notes without knowing exactly where my thinking will end. This summer we visited friends who live in a small village on the banks of the Loire. We went out drawing, watched the river change daily at different times, and passed fields of varying colours and textures. On one journey, a splash of brilliant purple colour in the distance was too intriguing not to investigate, and we couldn’t identify the source from a distance. When we reached the field we found delphiniums being grown, perhaps for seed. A riot of pink, purple, blue and white, set against a golden green backdrop. Here I’m showing you the flowers, a drawing I did, and a small embroidery that I made on our return to the UK.
My drawing took about two hours, pencil, ink, and fibre tipped pens that run when you wet them. I tried here to extract enough information to be able to start stitching.
and this is the first small piece I made. It found a new home on its first outing. My intentions are to go forward from this and work a larger piece that is perhaps more abstract, looking at the contrasting shapes and colours. I never seek to imitiate, only to investigate.
and finally a detail, I haven’t tried to draw individual flowers, but to say something about the ways in which the colours overlap and merge. If these ideas do develop I’ll show them in a future post!
How wonderful. Delphiniums are one of my favourite flowers and embroidery is my favourite texture..so ..perfection.
thank you Jackie. I love these flowers too and am glad you share my passions!
Jackie, just realised which Jackie you are!
Waouh! Very nice drawings and embroidery! Thanks to you, I learnt what Delphiniums are…no link with dolphins!!(first I thought : how could they see dolphins in a Loire field?!!) Hope everything is fine in Chichester. We are all doing fine here. Emma started her difficult 1st year in medecine studies. She is very busy…for the first time in her life. I hope she will succeed. We try our best to hellp her, but we cannot do very much about all she has to learn by heart.
Emile finishes high school this year. Not very interested in school, we will see…
Val and I are very busy with our work. Val has to travel a lot in France. He goes to Paris once a week. Last week he went to London for the World Rugby Championship with customers. He was very happy about this trip. He said London changed a lot, especially by the Thames. Therefore in April with Emile we are going to spend a few days in London to visit again a city we like very much.
Cheers Agnès
hi Agnes, great to get all your news here! ( I think Val will be happier about the rugby than English fans!) Glad you like the work too. If we are in UK in April we must meet up! Carol
Hi Carol,I love these landscape designs and it is wonderful that you explain how you develop your ideas and show all the developmental pieces, here and in other articles. You inspired and taught me many years ago and you are still inspiring me today. Thank you so much ,you changed the direction of my life and allowed me to grow. I still have my Bernina and love working with textiles .
How nice to hear from you Pam. Of course I remember you! Lovely comments much appreciated. I love making work and am continually looking to develop my ideas