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for the creating of inks but we will look at the layers that make up the low land forest with a view to creating a creative response to the encounter and to give you tools to how you might do this yourself with your garden or other special place you may have it is about interacting with this wonderful piece of nature of examining its layers and surprises and sourcing some small amounts of materials to make your own inks and printing ink which will be 7 8 march when we take you through ink making techniques printing and creating your own response to the environment details and enquiry is through our website inkpot alchemy just scroll down the page a little the workshop is only with a small group and we have one place still available these workshops are designed for you to look at nature with a different eye and to create colour from a small amount of resource and to create art inspired by those interactions so much texture colours even though we are at the height of summer there is still plenty of things to encounter some work i have been creating in response to the low land forest and surrounding grassland a sentinelle decorated with kangaroo grass which was growing in abundance prior to christmas and coloured with ink made from scented gum and manna gum these sentinelles are about 75 cm tall and are enmeshed in the landscape and looking out for the landscape the sentinelle story continues and keep re emerging in a different size and subject posted by dijanne cevaal at 6 38 pm no comments sunday december 01 2024 finding time i has been a very busy year in terms of exhibitions and creating work the sales however have been less than stellar and most of what i have sold is smaller work it is lovely to sell but it is the bigger work that sustains the smaller work does not create an exhibition of themselves though they can be good fillers that said i do seem to be making a lot of smaller works which is a bit determined by the space on my printing plate my cold press laminator has decided it won t cooperate any more at present though it can be fixed with the right tools which i don t have and i have to say the design for the wheel turning the rollers is not very satisfactory especially if you apply quite a bit of pressure i ve also been making quite a few different inks though i have to watch myself as the inks need to be stored somewhere and really i can make more next year if i run out it just seems so lovely to have lots of colors although in all reality i have a few favorites the inkpot alchemists are presently exhibiting at the orbost arts centre and we also conducted some workshops there in november one of the participants kim pauly took me out to cape conran which is just the most fantastic place and i hope to go back when we pick up our work in january of 2025 i will be doing a workshop for the stitch club in textile atists org i am looking forward to doing that for two weeks it is inspired by travels in perugia and the linocuts i made in order to create a small stitched piece and a larger travelers blanket for myself there are a lot of ideas bubbling away below the surface at present and i know from previous experience that that usually generates something new so i am a little impatient in working out what it will be i have worked to prepare for two exhibitions coming up in march one at meeniyan art gallery here in gippsland and one for croisements des arts in chartres where is shall also be teaching a master class i have also been playing around with printing on the mulberry paper as the inks behave in interesting ways on the mulberry paper i am using i am toying with adding wording but have not quite worked out how hopefully it will come to me sooner rather than later some new works i made for the inkpot alchemist exhibition in orbost they are nature and linocut print combos stitched by machine and hand the bush sentinelle printed onto a nature print on cotton rag paper in the foreground is a ceramic echidna made by an old school friend julz pottery whom i met up with recently in crookwell i love echidnas and this little chap just had to come and live at my house this print is nature and linocut combo printed on mulberry paper and i am in the process of hand colouring it with natural inks i have also been dabbling with a bit of writing but at present it is just playing but it is also something that has been bubbling away in the background but in a way i really want to combine writing with the work i have been doing for stitching is like a kind of writing for me i still have my bush scribbling booklet for sale if anyone is interested just email me and of course i do have some printed fabrics available posted by dijanne cevaal at 4 58 pm 2 comments tuesday october 01 2024 twenty years of blogging it is hard to believe but this month october my blog is 20 years old i have been blogging since 2004 and i must admit have blogged less since joining instagram sometime in 2014 or 2015 i also thought i was going to give up blogging at various times but somehow never did just lately i have started reading other peoples blogs again i had thought of moving over to substack or patreon to try and eke a little money from my writing blogging endeavours but somehow i worry about being consistent enough after all when people pay there are expectations of delivering consistent value added content and extras i have also thought of doing a newsletter as they seem to be popular at present and i subscribe to some myself but again i worry about consistency however when all is said and done i have been on blogger for 20 years and i do feel proud of that even though i have not blogged as regularly as i used to recently i looked at printing off my blog but was a bit shocked to find the cost of that through one of those blog to print apps would be in excess of 1500 because of the number of pages in the 20 years i have made 1450 posts 2 posts have been deleted by blogger for community infringement and i have no idea why as the content of the said offending posts cannot be seen even by me in the 20 years of blogging many things have happened and much travel has been embarked upon on a personal level i got divorced whilst my daughters were still teenagers and now they are all grown up and my eldest daughter got married recently we made her dress as we could not find anything that suited her or that she liked i have had cancer and a heart attack both health issues were caught early and though the treatment was quite invasive i have come out the other side with very few residual health issues so listen to your body if something is not quite right do go and see a health professional i moved house a number of times from my home in gellibrand to another home in gellibrand then a year in france then three years in geelong and then much travel and couch surfing until i decided to live in my shed in gellibrand which was next door to my ex so not ideal but on the other hand the divorce was not out and out acrimonious and we do have 3 children in common who have various life events to celebrate and i won t put them through what my parents put me through and then a big move to the other side of the state after my scare with cancer to morwell in the latrobe valley i was able to buy an ex commission home from the proceeds of the sale of my block and shed just before things went out of kilter with covid and i have been here for 5 years now i would really like to do some renovations but as a self employed artist fro 30 years superannuation was not something i could afford on the other hand i do feel lucky to have a house that is big enough to accommodate my passion for textiles and some garden to practice some permaculture and grow vegies i would love to do more permaculture things with my front garden but textile is still keeping me heavily engaged so that i do not have the time to give to such a large project at present i have curated an exhibition entitled gathered threads which is now in its third year and is attracting quite some attention and so it should there are some fabulous textile artists involved it is on at arc yinnar which is open thursday to sunday from 12 4 next weekend the other half of inkpot alchemy cheryl cook and i will be doing taster workshops from 12 3 on 5 6 october at arc yinnar please message me if you are interested and i can send you the info sheet i will also have a few pieces on display at gallery cardamome in france near chartres from 4 october 13 october there are nine textile artists involved and sadly it is the last time the exhibition will take place i had hoped to be there in person one of these years but alas no there are some wonderful textile artists involved in this exhibition then later in october october 21 24 i will be travelling up to ulladulla for the annual quilters gathering organised by marilyn stewart this is such a wonderful gentle event and always a lot of fun and brilliantly catered for i will be teaching things inky and stitchy we will have fun boiling and troubling creating inks and printing and stitching then i drive back to morwell to participate in open studios latrobe which will be on the weekend of 25 26 october and i am looking forward to that i will be up at cheryl s studio at tanjil south she has a wonderful mudbrick studio there will be artists all across the latrobe valley involved later in the year cheryl and i will be exhibiting at the orbost exhibition centre from 8 november which we are looking forward to its a beautiful centre and their collection of wood works is fabulous we will also be teaching a workshop of things inky on the weekend of the opening i have been super busy these last moths since returning from overseas as i will be teaching a workshop for the textileartist org stitch club for 2 weeks from 14 january 2025 it necessitated creating a new workshop writing it all up and creating the videos which proved a bit of a challenge as we have had a lot of storms lately and well cheryl s studio where we did the filming is backed by many tall trees and has a tin roof so during the storms it sounded like thundering horses which was not conducive to making videos but all materials have been delivered and i can now share a little of what i shall be teaching which combines linocut printing and stitching my two favourite things the linocuts were inspired by travels in italy last year and perugia and the very rich cultural experience that was below are some of the ideas i have explored for the stitch club workshop i will be showing you how to make a small linocut and then to embellish it it is a great way to translate the inspiration you encounter on travels these pieces are not the actual workshop piece but some other stitched pieces i made inspired by what i made for the workshop next year is shaping up to be very busy as well in march cheryl and i will be exhibiting at meeniyan gallery for the month of march i will be taking off for europe in march to exhibit in chartres croisement des arts from 8 march until 23 march i will also be teaching a master class at villa fulbert during that time i will have more information about this next month also if anyone in france would like me to come and teach i have a small window between 23 march and early april message me if you are then i shall be in spain for crearte in granada from 4 6april and really looking forward to visiting granada and meeting with spanish textile artists and quilters i will also be doing two half day workshops whilst there so life is very busy and i am trying to make new pieces to exhibit in upcoming exhibitions and events i hope to spend a little time in spain and in particular in granada which i visited many years ago and hoping to explore some things relating to federico garcia lorca and that is me all caught up i would love to hear from you if you have followed my blog for a long time i know i have met many of you during the years and i am incredibly grateful for the support that you have given me over these last 20 years i have made some incredible friends through my blog posted by dijanne cevaal at 6 14 pm 8 comments thursday august 08 2024 nature nurture happy to be part of an upcoming exhibition at arc yinnar with jenny peterson cheryl cook and marita anderson entitled nature nurture we are printmakers and textile artists so there is sure to be something for everyone the opening is this saturday 10 august from 2 4 for drinks and nibbles and you are most welcome to come and join us we will be having a hands on artist talk and demo on sunday august 18 from 1 3 if you decide to try the hands on there is a small fee of 5 for materials i am actually showing old work in the exhibition mainly because i have rarely shown it and yet it tells part of my story as an immigrant to australia but also the story of immigration within my family history as far as i can ascertain some more materials have come on line but essentially the story is unchanged from what i knew when i made this work back in 2003 2004 i had intended to make a new piece but didn t in the end as i have a lot of other deadlines and i simply ran out of time i did make a booklet telling the story to some extent as memories of a dutch childhood and an australian childhood my 10 th year earth side was neatly divided in half when my parents immigrated old enough to be conscious of self and yet still a child i hand printed the cover of the booklet and printed it with riso screens i had when i originally created this work a letter from my grandmother to my mother and poppies things are hanging a little differently than i had imagined but that is fine things change these works are created by trapping riso printed silk between layers of tulle which is then machine stitched so there is transparency otherwise i have been doing a lot of hand stitching in preparation for a course i will be teaching for the stitch club for textile artist org it will go live in january of 2025 but all the prep has to be done before september don t forget i do still have printed fabric for sale as well as some of my artwork it would be lovely to sell some things posted by dijanne cevaal at 4 58 pm 3 comments wednesday july 03 2024 creative thinking i have been doing a bit of writing and making and thinking especially around an exhibition i had recently at arc yinnar gallery with marita anderson and cheryl cook entitled riding the brush marita and bush palette scribbling i should have posted about it here but the month seemed to race by and the exhibition finished last sunday i did manage to self publish a booklet entitled bush scribbling which can be purchased for 20 inclusive of postage in australia only it really was some thought meanders around daily walking and how that inspires some of my creations for the exhibition but it is also about noticing and really looking and wonderment i guess i really have missed walking the last 10 days or so as the nerve in my leg has decided to spasm ...