EVENTS
Quilting Symposium 2024
2nd-6th October 2024 | Cambridge High School
I am delighted to be selected to tutor at the Quilting Symposium 2024, to be held at Cambridge High School from 2-6 October 2024. At present the committee have only released the names of the tutors and will reveal classes at a later date. To attend the Symposium you need to register on the Quilting Symposium website.
To attend the Symposium you need to register on the Quilting Symposium website.
Create a Landscape Art Quilt
27th-28th April 2024 | Morrinsville, Waikato
In this workshop participants will use design principles to develop and create an original design. Using photographs of landscapes as inspiration we will explore ways to express how we see the landscape.
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Designing your own Textile Art / Art Quilt with Lois Parish Evans
6th-7th April 2024 | Aroha Quilts, Te Aroha
An introductory design and art quilt workshop
This is a stand alone workshop but there will also be 6 x one day per week follow up classes after the initial weekend. Dates to be advised.
In this workshop we will explore ways to design a textile artwork/quilt by learning design and textile art techniques.
Beginning with basic shapes that Lois will provide, we will look at ways of creating interesting and appealing art quilt designs.
Using raw edge applique, hand colouring, hand painting and thread painting, we will work with the elements of design such as line, colour, shape, pattern, texture and learn to build further layers on our quilts .
For more information contact Karen Larsen at Aroha Quilts on 07 884 4590.
Homage to the Shoo Fly
This piece was one of 20 quilts selected to be in the Aotearoa Quilters Members Challenge "Light It Up" travelling exhibition for 2023/24.
For more details, please visit our Awards page.
Artists Statement:
When light patterns are cast upon the platform high up in the tree tops of the Night Lights Tree Walk in the Redwoods, Rotorua, they become the inspiration for a modern interpretation of the Shoo Fly quilt pattern. A hand painted pattern which lights up and sparkles under spotlights.
Gentle Upon The Eucalypt
This artwork is currently touring Australia with Ozquilt Networks AW8 (Australia Wide Eight) exhibition, a juried biennial exhibition.
Artists Statement:
As the breeze gently breathes across the thickness of foliage a glimpse of sky pushes through.
Sunlight plays across the surfaces creating light and shadow penetrating and highlighting the structure of the individual leaves.
Changing the view sometimes dense in colour sometimes translucent always changing always delighting the senses.
Abundance on Exhibit in Japan
“Abundance” has been home briefly before heading off to the Quilts for Hitachi Project for the 19th Friendship Quilt Exhibition 2024 in Hitachi, Japan.
Hitachi is Tauranga’s sister city and I have had a quilt at a few of these exhibitions.
Artists Statement:
An abundance of Eucalypt flowers in full bloom glow in the soft morning light. These trees are growing proud, strong and straight; healthy with an abundance of leaves and vibrant flowers. The symbolism associated with Eucalyptus is strength, protection and abundance.