I just posted on this excellent workshop at the Eclectica blog in much more detail!
It offered a timely chance to retreat and be taken on a new experience thinking about mark making.
Dorothy Caldwell was he kind of teacher one wishes had crossed one's path many moons ago... but perhaps this was perfect timing in another way.
Conversations with Dorothy and others attending were especially wonderful.
This early exercise was a chance to reconnect with Imbi Davidson who I wrote about at this blog here.
Our works sit side by side above. Imbi is ever the most exciting mark maker. I am much more a maker of forms... so it was great to be pushed into new thought.
4 days of experimenting with mark making....
burning holes, smoking paper, wax, finger-printing, lines and marks off every kind...
stitching
working large and small
making books... mine is on left below
and here below...
I've brought home two books to complete the binding on and have spent the day reflecting on all the layers of making, thinking, conversing and more form he previous 4 days with 15 people in a lovely garden setting on the edge of this city where I live.
Looks like a great class! Along the lines of some of what I will teach this summer. Love your book!
ReplyDeleteI'm intenesely longing for days on end of making... yeserday I stole a day and made some books.... still underway. Finishing, finishing - THEN I can get to the garden (full of weeds!) and my work - do I remember it? Well, I might keep up with the books for a bit...
Happy creating!
Hi Valerianna..
Deleteit was wonderful on so many levels.
You participants much be excited to book in and know they will come to you! I was worrying about all that I must do in the next week or two and anxious the night before the 4 day sessions... but now just feel so relaxed and to have come home with a better sense of timing and working process in the studio... like the rhythm we got into wil help me find my way here.
Curious.
Count down is on for you... go well..soon here!
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Oh how I wish I had been there too! The setting, the making, the new and old friendships.....all wonderful.
ReplyDelete'Twas truly an inspired time Carole and conversation flourished!
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ps I think you'd love to do her workshop and she seems to offer dates quite regularly!
sophie, this event is one i coveted...the mix of people sounded fertile, inspiring. i planted seeds tonight, and thought of my time in less than two months when i will be in australia!
ReplyDeleteAh yes Velma... I must have chat with you and hear where you plan to visit... Brisbane?
DeleteTHats not far off now... 2 months will fly!
CHeerio,
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Dear Sophie – thank you so much for the truly wonderful comment you left on my blog! I feel so lucky to have found you and your wonderful work and continue to feel inspired by what you do, and your process. Much to discover still! Please consider yourself invited to SA and my home, if you ever do come over : ) Happy creating! W
ReplyDeleteDear Willemien,
DeleteYesterday I sat and talked for ages after tutoring with a friend from South Africa. She was so excited to tell me she is going home at Xmas to Durban and cant wait to see all her old friends and take in the lively creative life which she so misses...
Feel like I am being lured to think more on South Africa...and now your invitation so inspired ...perhaps one day...if I could!
I was astonished to think of all your accomplishments... the writing and the art-making in several mediums! SNA more... wonderful to discover and so lovely to be connecting indeed! THank YOU!
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hope we can meet in person one day, in the meantime I'm enjoying this contact! w
ReplyDeletejust going bask in time at studio archive blog... so glad I met you this year Willemien.... and in person one day would be wonderful indeed!
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