Sculptural Works
Words on a page can appear flat and two dimensional - but in a sculptural form the meaning of those same words springs to life, right before your eyes.
These are just some of the works I have created.
Ways of Seeing
Materials: acrylic inks on board, fabric, paper, threads, yarns, beads, wire
Technique: cut-paper lettering design, felting, calligraphy, embroidery, applique, beading
Coral Kaleidoscope
Materials: yarns, fabrics, felt, embroidery cottons, beads, found objects, paper, wire
Technique: crochet, beading, sewing
Past – Present – Future
Materials: satin fabrics, embroidery cottons, ribbons, inks, beads
Technique: cut-paper lettering design, calligraphy, embroidery, applique, beading, sewing
Worry Beads for the Environment
Materials: hand-lettered words on black paper attached to spheres covered with natural-fibre papers
Technique: papermaking, paper collage, calligraphy
Altering the Balance
Materials: ink, gouache, Camphor Laurel timber
Technique: calligraphy
Wata & the Water Dragon Family
Materials: fabrics (Dragons); paper and photographs (Book)
Technique: pattern designing, sewing (Dragons); photography, calligraphy, book construction (Book)
Food for Thought
Materials: paper made from banana, corn, ginger and blady grass, string.
Technique: papermaking, paper collage
The Inner Journey
Materials: waxed and dyed kozo paper, Japanese paper, ink, light box
Technique: cut-paper lettering design, calligraphy, dyeing, paper collage
Scattered Offerings
Materials: photographs printed on 120gsm white paper, paper made from banana, corn and ginger
Technique: papermaking, photography, origami
Imagine Peace
Materials: watercolour paper, inks
Technique: calligraphy, origami
Procrastination à la Mobius
Materials: natural fibre paper (Blady grass), lettering
Technique: papermaking, calligraphy
Woven Words
Materials: calligraphy on paper, diagonal weave basket
Technique: calligraphy, basketry
Mother Earth, Father Time
Materials: paper, yarns, hemp fabric, felt, cotton fabric, papers, ink
Technique: papermaking, spinning, felting, calligraphy
Knot the Flat Surface
Materials: aluminium wire, Nepalese Lokta paper
Technique: paper collage
Inner Glow (Fragile Outer Shell)
Materials: egg-shaped lamp, hand-made Cyperus paper
Technique: papermaking, cut-paper lettering design, paper collage
Hug Me Tight (Tree Huggers' Wisdom)
Materials: rope, calico fabric
Technique: lettering, knitting, crochet
Woven Fragments
Materials: yarn, palm fibre, dyed raffia, acrylic ink, paper
Technique: basketry, dyeing, lettering
Blossoming Potential
Materials: lettering on handmade natural fibre papers (banana; papyrus; corn husks)
Technique: papermaking, paper collage, lettering
Banyan Balance
Materials: banana paper
Technique: papermaking, paper cutting, lettering
Alexandra – Palm Reader
Materials: palm fruiting stalk, banana paper and card
Technique: basketry, book construction
Naturally InSPIREd
Materials: handmade paper, plant fibres, fabrics, inks
Technique: paper making, paper collage, found objects, calligraphy
Emergence
Materials: handmade paper, plant fibres,fabrics, inks
Technique: basketry, paper making, paper collage, found objects, calligraphy
Sphere of Dreams
Materials: embroidery cottons, Merino fleece
Technique: felting, embroidery
Tea, Tea, Glorious Tea
Materials: paper, ink
Technique: papier mâché, dyeing, calligraphy
Scribendi Cacoethes
Materials: clay
Technique: cut-paper lettering design, pottery
In Three Dimensions
Materials: inks, paints, commercial papers, handmade papers, banana fibre, found objects, rayon
Technique: papermaking, paper collage, basketry, calligraphy
Cead Mile Failte
Materials: wool and acrylic knitting yarns
Technique: cut-paper lettering design, intarsia, knitting
sTREEtsCAPE (a cape for a street tree)
Materials: calico fabric, ribbons
Technique: cut-paper lettering design, applique, sewing