The group blog of four quiltmakers and textile artists scattered around the world in 4 countries and across three continents. Our aim is to create a small quilt every three months. The theme is chosen by the members in turn. Our website is: www.12bythedozen.weebly.com
Friday, 17 June 2011
Hendrik Stroebel
I have just returned from stopping off at one of our local galleries to see this most magnificent exhibition by a local artist, Hendrik Stroebel. I have seen a couple of his pieces before but this is the first solo exhibition I have seen and am blown away. He heads up the ceramics department at our local Technical College but his second love is these hand embroidered panels set either in a collage form or on there own in one of his ceramic frames. Here goes.....
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Does he do his own embroidery? It's gorgeous too. The colour palate is very intricate and subtle.
ReplyDeleteDianne
He must have a complete range of embroidery thread and works with stranded thread, working three colours in at a time. His detail and perspective on really quite small pieces is incredible. He has a site if you Google.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful. I am thrilled to see them - thanks so much, Phil. How big are they? Were they very expensive?
ReplyDeleteThis combination of the softness of the embroidery and the hardness of the ceramic reminds me of the work of Trish Hassler. She combines her little quilts with rough iron frames she has cut with a welding torch.
http://www.trishahassler.com/maind.html
Also of the work of Janet Haigh who combines embroidery and enameled pieces.
http://janethaigh.wordpress.com/
An interesting way to work - worth exploring and experimenting I think...
Hilary
The sizes varied ... the Thistle was approx 6 x 4 inch plus the ceramic surround. Some of the collage pieces are quite small but what he does with the thread is amazing.
ReplyDeleteI had a feeling they might be small. He has a fantastic understanding of how to blend colours/threads. I had one small experience and it was an eye-opener as to how you need to 'see' tonal variations as well as hue.
ReplyDeleteHilary
embroidery cotton has 6 strands he split them to 1 and then blend a few colours to get the col he wants.He does the embr and know what frame he would like as it one art work. 1 small embr. can take from 70 to 120 hours to do
ReplyDeleteThank you 'Anonymous' - it is always interesting to hear about the process. That just makes the end result even more awesome for me.
ReplyDeleteHilary
Also bear in mind that it is not something trying to look like embroidery, but embroidery used to represent the images from memory.
ReplyDeleteIn relation to Hillary's question - not expensive at all when you consider the hours and cost to the eyes ! For the record small ones are about ZAR 10 000 and the large ones range from ZAR 100 000 to 318 000.
You can contact the gallery itself for a catalogue with some amazing close up pictures - to be released this coming week.