Summer exhibition in Kivik 17-30 of July

Nature through a screen with soyawax

Back home in Kivik Sweden, I have now opened , the same exhibition, with which I was representing Sweden in Karlsruhe.

The exhibition is open from the 17th to the 30th of July.

The exhibition is mainly showing my polewrapped pieces and a lot of discharged ones.

Simple deconstruvtive screenprinting

I am now looking for new techniques to express my inner world and thoughts.

After having been to a workshop at the Committed to Cloth with Claire Benn as the teacher, I have started to grasp the neverending process with layers upon layers with colors and forms.

Next layer printed with soyawaxresist on silkscreen.

Until now I have been mainly interested in ripping of as much as possible,since I am devoted to simlicity, to the pure, often with few colors and few elements that repeat itself to an meditative rythm.

What comes next? Adding or cut away?

What is the main figure? Subtle and crude lines?

The challenge is to read  a piece of cloth.Strengthen its inner meaning and to bring it out.

What do you see? Tell me?

Quilts from Sweden to Israel

Last weeekend was the opening of maybe the biggest Art Quilt exhibition in Germany  in modern time.

Karlsruhe was the very well choosen place for this event.

Actually it was two exhibition in the same time. The  already famous Color Improvisation Art Quilt exhibition, curated by Nancy Crow and the other one was invited artists from mainly Europe curated by Ginie Curtze.

The exhibition is running from the 8 of May until the 12th of June in Regierungspräsidium,Karlsruhe.

The exhibition was opened by the burgermeister of Karlsruhe and other outstanding official persons from Karlsruhe University.

There were music played and sang in gaellish, very beatifully.

About 400 people were coming this first day of the exhibition.

and while listening to the visitors comments, it was all over a high level of exhibited quilts.

And I agree!!

Beeing very occupied explaining my own quilts to visitors,I came home with very bad photos, specially from my own quilts.

Here two quilts from Verena Friske  Germany,which she made during workshops with Nancy Crow in Faler Switzerland

Here comes some of my own quilts.

This one is first quilted and the painted with acylic

This Diptyk, called Balance is a first experiment, on how little color variation and variation of form and repetion is needed

to still make a picture and to learn to rip off, instead of adding some more.

Simply to find the point of balance.

These four Quilts are discharged in layers from black fabric

This picture was so dark that I manipulated them to black and white.Interesting contrast!!

The left one is polewrapped. the right one is discharged.

Back to Sweden and to my work as a physician.

The show must go on.

Change for the better Gällivare - Kivik

My life has changed dramatically the last 6 month and I have left this beatiful wiew of Dundret in Gällivare behind me and moved to the South of Sweden, Skåne.

Life goes on and now I have to choose more consciously how it is going to be.

Alone, I am the only one to answer my questions.

Still mourning the old I am finding new wiews in Kivik by the sea.

The creativity is slowly coming back, but is mainly occupied with how to remodel my house, so that I can live here permanently.
The walks by the sea in the winter time gives me the feeling of a new dimension, a freedom that I have to be very careful to bring  into my art.

Lately I have been doing some small pieces, that are worked in layers. Painted with dye,discharged several times, threadpainted and painted with acryl at last.

Opening of my exhibition in Gällivare

Focus to work more, work to focus better. Yes, thats what I have been doing since last post in this blog.
I get very unsocial, I close the door, I do not go out, nearly doesn't answer the telephone.
But I am very satisfied with the result of my exhibition together with Rita Andersson, who is working with tradional patchwork. The idea  was to show the roots of Artquilt, so I invited Rita to exhibit with me.
The exhibition is running up to the 28 of October, so there is plenty of time if you want to pass by.

The Red/Black quilt from which I constructeed my logo, is sold and I will miss it. I missed it so much that I went straight home and started to strip-peace a new top that. I do not know where it will lead me. But I seem to like it again ,strip-piecing.

I have mainly been working wholecloth the last years, since I often paint and discharge my fabric  as a painter,ready to be quilted.

Well, the winter started slowly up here in the North of Sweden and my morning walks are refreshing.

FOQ Birmingham

This is the third time that I went  to Birmingham for the Festival of Quilts (FOQ),to get inspired for my own future work. Over 1000 Quilts were participating in different competions. I compeated with two quilts. The Muzzle, inspired by the sweat waler mussle ,that still lives in some  few rivers  above the polar circle in the North of Sweden. I was facinated by their circle of propagation and how they coexist with the salmon fishes. A mussel can get over 200 years and existed in the same time as during the era of Dinosaurus.

I also compeated with Birches, some details is following here.

The Birch is the most common leave tree in Sweden. Since it is so common we have a tendency not to see it's beauty and many of us have forgotten what this tree can offer except of heating our houses and  constitute wood for beatiful furniture etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_bark 

Both pieces were discharged with Thiox and Formosol.

The best of Birmingham this year was all the different special exhibitions, arranged by SAQA, European Art Quilt, 4th European Quilt-Triennale and EQA.

The Quilt Art ( you can see more to the right in this blog),was the fuar most interesting exhibition this year.

Margaret Ramsay one of my english quilt friends exposed an exquisite quilt, which was ,honored highly commended, which means she was right behind the winner. Margaret ,is a great artist and her blog is one of the most generous and instructing blogs you can find. http://magsramsay.blogspot.com/

I also had a workshop on Paper Lamination with Sarah Welsby during three days and I will come back with another post telling you about it

Workshop in Discharge technique

Last weekend I gave a three-days workshop in Discharge technique in my Studio Auro.

This was the first workshop I have given, so I prepared a lot before the workshop.

The students  were hard working from 9 o'clock in the morning till 6 o'clock in the evening, Here I will show you some of the fabrics that were produced, which in no way are finished.

We were working with Bleach, Thiox, Formosol and Discharge Paste which all turned out differently . We experimented with discharge on different kinds of black fabrics and with a lot of different methods and tools, like screenprinting, stamping,frottage,resist with,clamping or tejp, rolling and painting..........

In the evening we had delious food, prepared by the students and some wine and long discussions about life and art.

We will certainly meet again.

Bodil Vinke at AUROgalleriKIVIK

Bodil Vinkehttp://www.vinke.se/

  is the last Fiber Artist for this season in my Gallery AURO in Kivik. http://www.galleriauro.se/

Her world of images are populated by dreams, animals and women. Often with a theme of strengh and womens power.

This she combines with a very colorful palette and integrating many techniques in her creation of Art Quilts.

Her basis is painting  and monoprinting on fabric.

 

This year you can also see one of her Artquilts at the FOQ  in Birmingham in the group of EAQ.

Next week FOQ Birmingham, meeting friends,getting inspired and the work continue......