A day in Ipswich

After a couple of days of personal and family dramas it was lovely to go for a drive to Ipswich(near Brisbane) and spend a few hours immersed in art.
We first went to the Swich Gallery to view the last day of the "Infused" exhibition in which my friend Mel Forrest was exhibiting- the ones I saw were lovely as  soem had sold and were gone!
The other pieces were all tea related and even jeff liked the tea cosies (which is something for a non-art person.)
After that we headed to the Ipswich Art Gallery and I loved the current work of Sally Harrison. A couple of images are below. I admire that she has blended aboriginal dot art and modern art techniques with colour and form that is colourful and engaging

 

 

 

 

 

After gallery it was off to the fashion parade of the Knot Macrame festival held by the the Ipswich Community Centre- sadly not well attended but a bit of a hoot.

Then to top off the afternoon we went to Pancake Manor --what we used to know as The Pancake Parlour in Geelong-ah!!!!! 80's FLASHBACK!!!!  It was the hip place to go after discoing all night--------------------------------------------------------------- ahh memories.
After a shared plate of jamacainn banana and walnut pancakes, it was time to head home.

Rusty Fun -in a bag!!

Rusty Fun -in a bag!!
After our last 2QAQ meeting (or 2quack as its lovingly called-our qld art quilters group). Ali had run a soywax and rusting day and I put my  salt soaked white open muslin in a bag and left it while ai was away in Perth.
It wouldnt have lasted that long if i was home-it would be too much temptation watching it slowly develop in its clip[lock bag!



The first glimpseson pulling out of the bag

 

 

Yumminess being revealed

 

 

 

And here is some pics of the fabric once evrything was removed-it has already given me to work on. some ideas

It will be interesting to see the reveal by others at our next meeting-cant wait!

Look Im in the Indian Ocean!!

I know Ive been back a week but just wanted to share a few of my pics -not all, as I took heaps

But it was a lovely visit and I just wanted to share a  few pics

Frank thought I shouldhave a pic of my self in the Indian ocean -lol!! So here tis!!!

The Beautiful sky hid the terrible storm that raced through Perth. 

Frank and Lyn Brown myfun and gracious hosts, and above is a quck collage of the workshop the day i left -we were smiling  but the wind and noises were very scary and sounded like the roof was going to come off . Which it did in some places.