Leaves, horsetail hair, pine needles (Fotos aren't great they are fotos of fotos.)

Spines from horse chesnut leaves, pine needles and willow leaf ribbons.

Cherry leaves and horsetail hair.

Cherry leaves and willow.

Cherry leaves and pine needles.

Cherry leaves and pine needles.

For years I collected leaves and nature things like seed pods and grasses. I started making 3D sculptures using just natural things.

This one is made using willow and horsetail hair and is flexible and can be twisted and turned due to the elasticity of the horsetail hair.It always springs back to 'shape'

This one is made using the spines from horse chestnut leaves and pine needles and leaves suspeneded on horsetail hair which is elastic. If you blow through this the leaves twirl .

These are made using cherry tree leaves pinned together with pine needles

These sculptures become extremely brittle over time and moving them around can be fatal!! They are best left hanging from the ceiling so they are safe.

Applique wall hanging

 These are some pictures of a quilted wall hanging I have made with hand dyed fabrics and stitch work. The insppiration were some house plants. Green is one of my favourite colours.

 

 I am now attempting to make small A5 sized quilted pieces which will be sew together to make purses diary covers and all sort sof things. I will post fotos in a day or two as I go along.


 

Wire Fish and beads

Did I tell you I was also faffing about with a wire fish that I made a couple of years ago. I have lots of beads and jewellery hanging about some broken some just dated and I NEED to do something with it all.

 I decided I'd decorate my fish with some old bits and pieces I have in various boxes. The fish is about 45 cm long and about 20cm in diameter. He looks great just hanging there with sun glinting off his bling!

Frames a work in progress

I bought 36 frames and now I am in the process of decorating each one in a different way.




 Some are just stained with coloured inks and others are coloured free hand with felt tipped pens and then a sealant over them. I have covered others in fabric and stuck on pieces of old jewellery and sequins etc.

My current project is decorating some frames I got at IKEA. They are just plain wood and are 5 x 7 inches in size. Over the years I have collected lots of beads and stones and little plastic objects and have long been looking for a way to use them.

 

Sometimes I go to a place in Rotterdam where you can buy factory waste like little rubber thingies that look like drawing pins or sheets of tins or coloured threads........all sorts of stuff. Each time you go there is something different.

When all 36 are finished I will be attaching them all to a piece of MDF and hanging the whole thing as a work of art using all the objects i have long been gathering. Some will have a busy frame and a more restful thing in the frame, some will be 3D, either the frame or content.

I love to mosaic

Mosaic is another of my interests and I've been busy for a few years now decorating anything that I think could be improved by the addition of glass mirror and tile pieces.

 

 

  I really like the effect the broken mirror pieces have I think they breath new life into almost anything. :)

Woven Steel lamps / sculptures

I make lamps from woven steel strips. The strips are collected from factories who are going to throw them away. I first straighten them and then weave large sheets which later become the lamps.

 

Each one is filled with either a coloured tube bulb or filled with Christmas lights for the mosaic effect.

 

The structures themselves can also be used purely as sculptures without any lights inside I have a couple in my garden nicely rusted.