Beanscene at Shawlands Glasgow

If anyone is free and in Glasgow on Sunday 5th April, I will be selling my Jewellery and accessory pieces at the Arts and Craft Fair being held at the Beanscene at Skirving Street in Shawlands. The fair is planned for 2-5pm. My prices vary in range from £15 due to which items, the work involved, how many tile pieces included and commissions to order are very welcome. Hope to see you there, it has been advertised really well locally and in the Beanscene stores throughout and they are expecting a good turn out so get down there to avoid dissappointment!

lemonart Contemporary Jewellery and Accessories

The jewellery and accessory pieces are a functional yet decorative textile artwork which is then presented within a Perspex tile with stitch. My work is often very graphic as I am inspired by line; for example in maps, architecture, handwriting and plans. My artwork is often in monochrome, working with a variety of white, creams and black tones as I feel this brings attention to the detail of the hand stitching that I include. I used traditional quilting techniques in a very contemporary manner. I work on the textiles on both front and back sides, which creates interesting contrasting images and using the Perspex allows the pieces to be double-sided. The tiles come in a variety of sizes squared of 3cm and 5cm in scale and the products I make vary from brooches, earrings, cufflinks, necklaces, rings and magnets. Each item is completely unique as the textile pieces can not be repeated due to the method of machine and hand stitching I work in. Only one or several textile tiles can be used to make the jewellery which allows the piece to form simple shapes and also to become quite sculptural.

Prices range from £20.

If you are interested in purchasing any lemonart jewellery feel free to contact me or leave a post with any comments, queries and questions.

Post forum work ideas

Since being at the Textile Art Forum week for 2009/2010 with the new theme title of Deconstruct/Reconstruct i have lots of new ideas for work. I am approaching the theme in two ways, the visual image of the textile piece i will create and also in how i present the textiles. I am looking to urban construction in forms of buildings and road layouts, exploring how they are constantly being knocked down and rebuilt, creating layers of refurbishment. I plan for the textile pieces i create to be a reflection on the visual of the road markings and then to present the textiles in a format which reflects the idea of building blocks and layers, creating relief within the work, making it in itself a model of an urban landscape.

I have already started on building some models to work out my ideas.

Well im just back from the Textile Art Forum group week in Ballydugan. The theme for this year is Reconstruction and i have can back with a few ideas i am excited to get working on. I hope to create quite sculptural works which could be floor installations and also wall based. Photos of the work and ideas i thought about while at the forum are to follow.