The Kiwi Collection

SAQA's annual Benefit Auction starts 18th September.  Members have been invited to create their Dream Collections of six art works.

I've called mine 'The Kiwi Collection'.  Five are by New Zealanders with the sixth by Betty Busby.  Betty's 'Takahe' is a great representation of one of NZ's native birds.  Betty also taught here earlier in the year (see here). 

I blogged about my quilt 'Like Tapa' here. 

For other Dream Collections see here or for the full collection of auction pieces see here.

The Kiwi Collection:

Symposium Tutors

At the recent Symposium (previous posts here, here and here) the tutors had their own exhibition.  A few pieces ...

Sue Benner (US) 'Cellular Structure V'

Melissa Burdon (NZ) 'The Black Smith'

 

Mary Pal (CA) 'Horse of a Different Colour'

Betty Busby (US) 'Coral Sea'

 

Rosalie Dace (SA) 'Grounded II'

Gloria Loughman (AU) 'Butterfly House'

Symposium Classes

Quilt Symposium Manawatu finished last Wednesday, it was a week of learning, exhibitions, shopping, lectures and fun with friends.

I took two classes - the first was a 2 day class with Betty Busby painting silk.  Fortunately there were only 7 of us in the class which meant we had plenty of space.  I'd never tried painting silk before, the silk was easy to paint and we had a lot of fun. Everyone in the class produced amazing pieces.  Now to find where to buy it.  Betty is a great teacher and is also a fellow 'Redirecting the Ordinary' artist. 

painted silk

The second 2 day class 'Earth, Wind and Fire' with Rosalie Dace. I picked 'Wind' to create a peice based on wind blown trees.  I'd taken along pictures of sunsets, trees, etc but on the day decided to tackle 'wind'.  
 
There are some windblown trees near Foxton that seem to be going towards horizontal. The idea was not recreate an actual picture.  I started on the left with piecing rectangles then sort of moved to piecing small pieces, including curves, a la Gwen Marston.  It even has some silk from the previous class.  Now to add more stitching, then quilt it.

These tutors were fantastic, thanks to Helen and her team for all their amazing work  organising a great week of classes.