Beautiful Book Storage

Found on annesage.com, bferry.wordpress.com, bookriot.com, mrsblandings.blogspot.com, johanna-vintage.blogspot.com, homelife.com.au, 

Bush Pearl

More outside printing and dyeing of a new design 'Bush Pearl'.  I could get used to this if it wasn't about to be 8 degrees and freezing in Hobart!

I have been running from home to my studio all week, carrying my print table which doubles as an ironing and sewing surface up 6 flights of stairs to make samples and new stock.  Not sure if this makes me fit or closer to a dormant back injury.

Studio details

Creating new artwork for silk screen to be printed onto cloth.  I usually make heaps of these at once, then only end up using one or two! Occasionally old piles of drawings get a revisit and I surprise myself that something quite nice has been tossed aside.

Yes, that is both tea AND coffee in the second photo.  All for me!

The start of new journeys

2015 has been a great year so far.  In January, I started the NEIS program, which is a great way to give yourself time to explore a new business idea while getting financial support to do so.

The past couple of years have been an interesting journey figuring out where I fit in creatively, and if working creatively is even the right fit for me career-wise.  Work and 'what you do' is a regular topic, and I have chatted to a number of people going down the creative career path deciding that it wasn't for them as it took the pleasure out of making.

I have not even finished my 1st month of working for myself and found that it really is a matter of jumping, then figuring everything out on the way down.  The excitement of change has become secondary to new challenges and unexpected surprises that happen along the way.  

While I get into the rhythm of this new way of working and living, I have found immense pleasure in stolen moments by myself where I get to read snippets of novels from second hand bookshops waiting for print paste to dry or dye to set, working outside in the backyard on a still autumn afternoon, and the overall satisfaction of making and getting my hands dirty.

These moments and snippets in time may not be constant, but I hope next time I am exhausted from getting ready for a market, typing a monster grant application or order the wrong equipment, I remember that happy times exist and will return!  

Photos are of a new fabric design using dyes I have been working on this week during earlier mentioned autumn afternoons...

 

Cosy Bedrooms

For the sweetest dreams.

Images from anotherboheminan.tumblr.com, seeemilypaint.tumblr.com, bedsbedseverywhere.tumblr.com, apartmenttherapy.com

Mt Field National Park

Over the long Easter weekend the skies greyed, clocks went back an hour and I spent some time inside coming to terms with long sunny days ending.  

Moving on to curiousness and adventurousness, I began fantasising about spending a winters night or two in Mt Field National Park in the Government Huts at some point during winter.

Images found on Tasmanian parks and wildlife website

Humble interiors

Pictures found on: apartmenttherapy.com, frommoontomoon.blogspot.co.uk, feedly.com & justthedesign.com

Custom textile design in progress

It has been the happiest time developing artwork for a new custom textile design job full of organic native forms loosely based on Tasmanian plants.

Studying these plants through drawing is fascinating, especially getting into the curly world of bracken ferns.

Workspaces

There is something so relaxing to me about looking though Pinterest at other peoples creative workspaces.  The desks an studio spaces in the pictures are always so nicely styled and clean.  I had a nostalgic meander through my photos last night and picked out a history of my workspaces over the years.

From dysfunctional desks that somehow got me through uni, to making do with wall space when I had no desk at all, to finally having my own studio... the journey has been long and messy.