Mixed Media Flowers

Mixed media Flowers

Mixed Media Flower explorations!

I have continues working on my 2D Mixed Media creations. I find it relaxing to 'play' and experiment with, using flowers as my subject matter. I love exploring colour combinations and using a variety of media within my work. I've even been known to save the tissue paper from a new shoe box and incorporate this! I mostly enjoy working on Watercolour paper but have begun exploring the use of canvas as a ground for my 'flower explorations'.

"Rudderless"

More images of "Rudderless". See other entry.

"My Scuffs"

Life size ceramic replicas of my slippers!

"Walk A Day in My Shoes"

Ceramic Shoes

These are the clogs I created in clay telling the story of my maternal grandmother who I have never met. She died when my mother was only 14, having immigrated to Australia two years earlier.
A few years ago my mother published a book telling the story of her immigration to Australia and childhood in Holland, ("From Tulips to Gumtrees"). One of the stories inj the book I'd not heard before, and it touched me as a mother.
During WW2 when the Dutch were literally starving due to the occupation of Holland, my 'Oma' loaded up the twins' pram (my mother's younger siblings) with all the precious things from her 'Glory Box' (now there's a term you don't hear much anymore!) and walked from the Hague to the North of Holland, where some food was still available from farmers there. She bartered her good linen and sundries for food for her children, then walked all the way back, no mean feat in war time.
This woman, my unknown Oma, who had only existed previously for me as a 'character' in my mother's childhood stories (which we heard all through our childhood!), became a person with whom I could identify with and admire.
I created these shoes to commemorate her and hand wrote this story (in underglaze) around the clogs.