Lino Print: 'Street Boy'

'Street Boy' Inspired by Gabriele Münter's piece,  'Aurelie'.

Thanks Uta for your inspired choice of Gabriele Münter. Once again, another artist new to me. I was so pleased to find Münter also created work with coloured woodcut prints - one of my favourite things to do, so I really enjoyed making the printing block and the quilt.

I chose Münter's print of 'Aurelie', (1906), in rose, orange, yellow, red and black on Japan paper. It is only small at 18.5cm by 16cm.

Gabriele Münter, Aurelie, 1906, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, © 2013 Gabriele Münter/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, photo © 2013 Museum Associates/ LACMA

For my interpretation I decided to use a small drawing of a boy - I am also working on a series of work about child labour, so I have a lot of drawings to chose from). This is the one I picked.

and then carved a block from a piece of vinyl.

And here is the print on white fabric...

I coloured the print with thickened fibre reactive dye and ink, then added multiple layers of wadding to different parts of the image and used different densities of stitch stitch to create dimension to the finished piece. 

Thanks Uta!

x

Old Harry

This time I have tried to loosen up and abstract the content - maybe I went too far but Old Harry has gone to South Africa so I can't fiddle with it as I was tempted!  I have been intrigued by how some artists put down a base colour before painting over the top and that the base colour often shows through.  I wondered if this was what Gabriele did with her paintings that had black outlines. I have seen orange used very effectively.  So I decided to try this out and chose a lime green fabric.  Overall I am happy with the piece but I realize that using a plain white for the cliffs was wrong and it stands out amongst the other fabrics which are 'mottled'.  I was tempted to go and add some mottling to the white (I feel I should have and I may still do that when it gets back).  Anyway, it is the most abstracted piece I think I have done - the temptation to add detail was almost overpowering.

Hilary

Old Harry

Jawlensky and Werefkin by Munter

Old Harry Rocks, Dorset, UK

Gabriele Munter and Cat

I had great plans for a Gabriele Munter-inspired portrait of my beloved dog Chloe, because I really admire her portraits, but time constraints prevented me from getting it done. Instead, I relied on my fall-back of thread sketching and this is what I came up with. It is black thread on vintage damask that may not show up well in the photo, but it adds a very nice vintage look to the piece. I may still do some quilting in the background - or maybe not.

Rebecca

This is based on a selfie that my daughter Rebecca took and I was inspired by the portraits that Münter used with the black outlining.  I confess that I haven't quilted the background.  But I'm not sure I want to or have to.  It's on an iron on batting so doesn't need it for stability. 

Vase of flowers

Gabriele Munter's vase of flowers

My interpretation of Gabriele's work

Some of Gabriele Munter’s work looks like naive art and so I tried to portray that style. Her still-life painting appealed to me because I have never done one before. The background was a self-dyed piece of poly-cotton; at the end I added a little bit of embroidery here and there to make it more interesting. The vase was done using a Japanese scarf I had and I tacked a variegated sashiko thread on the table cloth. It was difficult to control myself and not put frills, sequins or beads onto the flowers! Because I wanted to ‘bring in’ the borders, I used a red piping.

I wonder if Patricia has been inspired by the same artwork – that will be something if we have done similar pieces again!

Allison

Hello Everyone ,
What a wonderful response from all of you re the exhibition next year . Thanks to Hilary and the idea of the form I now will have a piece ( unfortunately only one piece each) from everyone  covering all the artists we have so far done . The convener will be delighted and what an interesting exhibition it will be .
Regarding the hanging of them you will not need to put a sleeve on . I will work this out at a later stage once I know what type of stands I will have on which to display them . Our convener will help out with this aspect . So just send them as they are but please make sure that your name and address is on the label at the back of the quilt . I am so looking forward to receiving them and seeing them in reality. I promise to take a video and lots of photos once it is all set up .
Thank you all.
Rosemary

'Morning everyone,
Hilary will be sending a form to everyone to give preferences to what you would like exhibited at our 'Blog It 'exhibition so I can get a reasonable spread through the artists . Those who have recently joined could wait until you have done pieces for a couple more artists but I would like to have all submissions by mid June next year as everything will need to have  labels done and I would need time to have the information about the artists and pictures of all our quilts put on to the cards.
I think it will be a quilt exhibition with a difference and really interesting for the public .
So thanks for coming on board.
Rosemary

Hello again everyone ,
I have spoken to the Exhibitions Convener of the National Symposium again and our ' Blog Exhibition' has been chosen as one of eight really interesting exhibitions for next year . I really hope that each of you will manage to send one of your Artist Series quilts to me either via Hilary,Phil and Patricia or couriering one to me . Helena , I think your Klimt, Lucy in Gold,would be great for Klimt . Patricia is giving her Barnes -Graham piece  so if you could all indicate which one of your pieces you would like to exhibit I shall try and even it out amongst the chosen artists . I will just fill in a gap wherever. Our newest members will not have as much choice but do send whichever you think appropriate. I am excited about his for all of us as it gives the general public an idea of how the digital age is opening up possibilities for us textile artists to show our work .
Hope you are all as excited as I am .
Rosemary

Hi everyone,
Thanks to all of you who have replied enthusiastically to my previous posting.
I thought I should clarify what the "Blog It" exhibition is all about .It involves ONLY the "Artist Series "of quilts . This is an example of what was displayed :
 
As you can see I was only able to display my own 'real' quilts .What the exhibition person has suggested, if this exhibition is chosen for the NZ National Symposium, is to have ONE 'real' quilt from each of us members of the blog displayed .( I would be grateful if you could each indicate which quilt you would like to exhibit  - so that I don't have several for one artist and none for another! ). I think this is a great idea and have outlined it all with my previous posting . Phil has offered to collect a piece from all of you in the UK and Patricia ,who is visiting us in NZ in December, will bring them all over here including hers ,Phils and Allisons quilts. The remaining  members will need to rely on courier post directly to me at:
1 Helvetia Drive ,
Browns Bay,
Auckland, 0630,
New Zealand .
I will phone the exhibition convenor ASAP ,give her all these details , and see whether she is still interested . I will curate the exhibition .
 If there are any questions please ask and ,as I have stated, if anyone is unwilling do let me know.
Rosemary

Hello All,
Some of you may remember that I held a mini exhibition at our local group's show early in May . I printed out all our work on cards  (which our local printer did so well) and then displayed my own pieces underneath. The New Zealand National Symposium is being held here in Auckland in October 2019 and I have been approached by the lady on the committee in charge of exhibitions to say that they are considering it as one of the exhibitions at Symposium. She suggested that it be hung in a similar way to the previous occasion but thought that it would be fun to have an actual piece from each of us members of the blog hanging there instead of just my pieces . Obviously I would need permission from anyone interested in doing this . I would need to select one piece for each artist and those of you who are willing would have to take responsibility for insurance and postage to and from New Zealand . I would be willing to be the co-ordinator .
So what do you all think ? Would love to have feedback . If anyone is opposed I can certainly exclude that person . I just need to know so that I can give the information to the Exhibitions Co-ordinator.
Rosemary

Message from Linda F

Hi everybody. 

I've just been looking through the posts from this year, and once again am so impressed with the skill, both in interpretation and sewing, that all the members of this group have.  I'm not going to try and add any individual comments, just wanted to say how much I have enjoyed looking through all the work.

I'm still not sewing much yet - in fact my sewing machines haven't been taken out of their boxes since the move.  As you may have heard, we've had an exceptionally hot and dry summer in the UK so far this year, and I've been spending all my time in the garden on various projects.  I also have the problem of not having anywhere to store the empty boxes until we have a new garage built.  Things are moving on though, we have building permission for the garage and are just waiting build-over permission from our local water company as we are having to build rather close to one of their large pipes. 

We have decided where my new studio is going to be, but there are quite a lot of alterations to do before I can start using the room.  As we are also working on the designs for a new extension to contain the kitchen and a new open plan area for seating, plus a large patio area in the garden, the studio alterations may end up being part of the overall building work, which means they are unlikely to even start until next year.  So I'm going to be on sabbatical for a bit longer - sorry.

Our Festival of Quilts in Birmingham starts soon, and I will be spending five full days there all being well, so maybe a few ideas/inspirations will emerge from that.  Meantime I'm at least still doing a bit of hand sewing in the evenings.

Linda

The many styles of Gabriele Munter

Great post today from our own Heather Dubreuil in which she reflects on discovering the work of Gabrielr Munter and her many varied styles -  http://heatherdubreuil.blogspot.com/2018/07/gabriele-munter-louisiana.html