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udes three little ceramic faces and the poem is about them too i ve finished some ceramic masks that may be involved in a future project but at the moment are waiting to be hung on the wall for the ceramicists out there and anyone else who is interested or is watching pottery throwdown at the moment they were made in stoneware crank clay decorated with porcelain slips then biscuit fired to 1000 celsius copper carbonate was then applied and some brush marks of clear shiny glaze they were then fired to 1260 celsius in an electric kiln then i ve added gold leaf here they are antelope about 36 cm 14 inches elephant about 36 cm 14 inches yes it s a zebra 34 cm 13 inches more or less goat 20 cm 8 inches there s a rhino and a crow in the pipeline too i m quite immersed in stop motion animation too at the moment and hopefully into the future as you can imagine it s a slow business but i love it i ve made the assets as they are called for a couple of ideas i have these are the puppets and props that you need in this sort of project i ve done some experimental filming and i m getting to grips with the tech at some point it will come together and a longer film will emerge as it takes a long time to make basically a nano second of film don t hold your breath here s the studio basically the same space where i do the rest of my work so i spend a lot of time moving things around and putting things away and to finish a nice sunny image of projects in progress on the worktable thanks for looking keep on making december 22 2023 stephanieredfern 7 comments time for a catch up october 21 2023 october 21 2023 stephanieredfern 15 comments well it s been a while so here s a little catch up of what s been going on around here when i started this blog over 10 years ago i used to post really frequently but now the spacings between blogs seem to get further apart i think it s because we are all aware that blogs don t get as much attention as they used to since the quick fix of instagram and tiktok etc have taken us over also a blog takes time and work whereas a quick image loaded onto instagram is another thing altogether so here s a romp of a post with a good amount of images and not too many words hopefully i can t promise the latter though once i get going i don t stop easily first of all my latest series of work six big hoops each 21 inches 52 cms in diameter i saw these hoops at the festival of quilts in birmingham in august and ordered some when i got home i couldn t carry them on the train with the work i d exhibited there too they re from siesta frames and are called chunky artisan hoops they are really well made and sturdy with the brass screw at the top which means i can keep the piece in the hoop permanently for display purposes this series is called the poem series above you can see some materials i gathered together that i may or may not have used things always change as you go along don t they each piece has a poem printed onto a khadi paper open book image so here they are i ve started stitching the first one as you will see it s a mandrill monkey in case you were wondering he ll have stitched hairiness i ve wanted to include a mandrill in my work for years he ll be back too no doubt some details of the stitching so far i did have an initial colour scheme in mind for the series but it did change as i spotted more fabrics i wanted to use black as usual was quite central in my colour choices then pink started to creep in so i let it i don t use commercial patterned fabrics very often but i loved these two pink and black prints above you can see some other fabrics i ve sorted for consideration the composition was based around three small ceramic masks i made during the summer the little masks are placed on but need some earrings attached before they are permanently stitched in place some favourite subjects moths and hummingbirds beetles and chameleons there will be many beads the chameleons are digitally printed onto silk from an image of linocut i made some time ago more pink and three birds i found in my stash from another project i decided they needed a home so here they are lastly a raven in a piece called the bird altar the altar is porcelain some pieces i made a couple of years ago which were waiting for the right situation the fabrics are digitally printed silk from my images and commercial fabrics brushed over with white acrylic paint in between working i ve been to amsterdam for four days here are a couple of images sorry couldn t resist pumpkins from amsterdam dutch apple cake and tea at the rijksmuseum omg this fabulous huge painting at the museum was right up my street as a bone lover it is by erik andriesse see below i took many images of it below me in a bar i wish it was on the corner of my road what a local that would be below the view from our room i loved all the activity and yes the sound proofing was excellent we went across to the large white building on the free ferry it s the eye cinema and cinema museum below is another view of it so a great trip all round we walked along the canals went to the botanical gardens too and to this bar twice below where parts of van der valk the latest set of series was filmed obviously we are vderv fans see below view with me bar and resident cat antonio it was once a bar frequented by journalists over many years it s called the scheltema and gets mixed reviews on tripadvisor i ve noticed we had a good time with the lovely owner and a very good waitress antonio didn t say much phew nearly done this is my work below at the knitting and stitching show at alexandra palace in early october art textiles made in britain had a gallery there which proved to be very popular our show illuminate is touring to the k s show in harrogate in november then next year is moving onto more venues details on our website arttextilesmadeinbritain co uk to round things up eclectica textile artists of whom i am a member have a show on at forge mill needle museum in redditch uk until 26 november it s a wonderful show and we are running a little meet some of the artists session from 1 3pm on 26 november so come by for a chat if you can below a montage of our work forgemill org uk so there we are well done if you got this far see you next time time for a new project yay august 10 2023 august 10 2023 stephanieredfern 6 comments i love starting something new i do still have the summer book to finish below which should be fairly simple as i ve made the porcelain pages and also the butterflies to attach to them below are some images of work in progress on the summer book its close relation is the winter book which is constructed from black and white porcelain pages with stitched textile additions and has featured previously on this very blog i used moth shapes in that book so thought i d stick with the theme for the summer book albeit butterflies here rather than moths both books will be shown in eclectica s show at forge mill needle museum in redditch which opens on october 18th fired porcelain pages they are fired to 1260 degrees celsius a mix of white porcelain and coloured porcelain rolled together and textured then glazed with copper carbonate they re about 20 cm 8 inches long a couple of pages photographed laid on some of the materials i used to make the butterflies i printed photo transfer paper with images from my collages and ironed them onto calico i like the plastic appearance and you get a good neat edge when you cut it butterflies cut out and ready to have beads added above and below some mostly finished pages butterflies not secured yet and indeed may fly off to live on a different page if i change my mind about their positioning these summer book pages undoubtedly influenced the colour choices for my new project as you can see below the last project the moth pages was more on the brown black white side of the equation so this will be more colourful and quite rich well that s the initial plan there will be black and white though that s a given with me so below here are some flat lay images of materials and also some visual references taken from my sketchbooks and printed out in postcard size which i ll use as the basis for each new piece in this series then there are various mixed media bits and pieces that may be used in the pieces too the fabrics are a mix of new but what i have already and recycled i ll be using hoops again for this project and incorporating some of my poems it ll be a long haul sort of affair left over porcelain moths from the the moth pages project they may find a home in this series and finally an image of the moth pages my last textile project at the festival of quilts which happened last week at the nec in birmingham uk it was a very good show the only thing i would say is that more artists galleries would be nice i was very happy with the way my work as hung it s a tedious job to get them all level so many thanks to the hanging team one went wonky but that s my fault and i like a quirky character who won t behave five judges judged it four were generous with their marking and comments thank you folks judge number five decided that it couldn t be judged as it didn t fit in with the show s definition of a quilt in that it had to have two layers joined by stitch not the fact the entry was in hoops or whatever i m a rebel it s great to be naughty all the hoops are constructed from two layers though one layer of fabric would be far too flimsy to stitch and support all that appliqué is that not a layer one briefly wonders and the porcelain pieces attached still enjoying being born to be wild just off to jump on my harley davidson moving on with the moth pages june 14 2023 june 14 2023 stephanieredfern 10 comments my eight hoop series the moth pages is all laid down and ready to stitch well one is already stitched and finished and i m onto the second now which is good because they need to be done by the end of july as i ve entered them into the art quilts category in the festival of quilts at the nec birmingham i wasn t sure whether to or not but thought the deadline would be a good motivation to get on with them they take a while to stitch being quite large hoops so here are a few images starting with the raw materials which include a mix of fabrics new and recycled porcelain moths other pieces of porcelain some inspirational botanical material and fabrics and papers printed with digital images from my collages and photographs the book in the first image is my own stitched textiles nature i m revisiting in part one of my projects in the book which uses moth and butterfly shapes and hand stitch the hoops are 40 cm 16 inches across with a slightly weird old fashioned tv shape and the works are constructed from all the above with added hand stitch in a mix of threads and beads following on there are some work in progress images and a few of instagram typical flat lays i love a flat lay with some shots of the first finished piece at the end of the post there we go fewer words lots of pictures below the first finished piece it s not meant to be minimal back to stitching then i ll post more as i finish them it must be spring winter book finished april 25 2023 stephanieredfern 6 comments as predicted i ve finished my porcelain and textile winter book in spring i have started a summer book now which may well be finished in its actual season which would be nice and quite unusual for me the winter book will be shown in an exhibition later in the year and hopefully the summer book too the panels are high fired porcelain with copper carbonate and some clear glaze for those of you with an interest in ceramic processes some are made from or include black porcelain they were rolled out by hand and textured with various texture blocks i ve made over the last couple of years they are mostly about 12 15 cm 5 6 inches designed to be hung or shown flat the textile additions are mainly moths printed using iron on transfer sheets with some stitch and beads other textile added to the panels are digitally printed and stitched silk images taken from my collages and finished work there s silver leaf too some of which was advertised as edible i didn t eat any during the making of this piece the book was actually finished earlier but i didn t like it so ripped all the textile bits off and started playing with the moths instead these came from a piece of work i ve had on the wall of my workroom for ages it s now somewhat dismantled there are 16 panels altogether although clever bods will note that there are 18 here mainly because some are repeated to fit in with instagram squares of course below some individual panels and to finish below some more porcelain bits and pieces ready to be used in future mixed media projects although the moon has been appropriated by the winter book already there are some tiny pages for a little bound book a friend thinks it should be called a fragile tale which i very much like i love the black and white fragments i have no idea yet what i ll do with them but i get them out to have a look at every so often the bowl is thrown porcelain i love throwing but sold my wheel ages ago which i regret thank you for reading or even just looking at the pictures keep making be positive do it projects projects march 8 2023 stephanieredfern 15 comments i m suffering a little from project overload at the moment combined with the fact that i don t seem to have done quite as much work as i d have liked to have done over the last few weeks well nowhere near enough to be honest i have several projects on the go and a couple of new biggies i m itching to get going with too one of the main reasons is that i have less time due to exercise i decided before christmas that i needed to be fitter and not fatter this does work i ve found but bloody hell you have to put the time in i m an apple and that s not a good shape but mostly i m blaming my vague pudginess on lowering oestrogen levels well why not it can t just be eating bread right so i ve estimated with the routines with the pink dumbbells and the daily walk that s at least 1 5 hours away from work a day but as it s good for you well it better be i m sticking with it just so you know i m not really slacking and no i can t get up at 6 am to fit it all in that s just inhuman above is a project legitimately waiting to be concluded it s the winter book i actually started in winter and as i anticipated i will be finishing it in spring or possibly summer at this rate this one isn t waiting for me to get on with it though i m waiting for the porcelain pages to all come through the firing before i can arrange and attach the stitched silk pieces on them these are some of the finished porcelain pages with the silk pieces as yet unattached i m really looking forward to finishing this one below are some finished pieces from a series i m hoping to finish soon hand stitching takes time though is that a reasonable excuse i ve included some poems i ve wri...