Wednesday 22 April 2009

tumut-too


the water at the Gilmore Hall [rain] was pretty good stuff...gave us some very nice colour from the local eucalypts


Phyllis [i hope i've spelled your name correctly] made her very first piece of felt and explained that the image [she is Koori] shows the elder positioned around the perimeter, keeping watch over country, and the waterholes, linked by tracks

a lovely piece, made using the reverse inlay method
 

and a bit later, on the way to Canberra airport...the Australian National Botanic Gardens is one of my favourite places, full of visual and sensory delights


8 comments:

  1. There is so much to see and feel in the piece by Phyllis, the elders embracing the landscape...the tracks like linked arms protecting the waterholes...
    I wonder who made the third one, it is like a snake from the dream time.
    You must have had great fun with this group of students.

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  2. It is such a visual feast of colors and shapes and patterns to come visit your blog. And I loved the story of the diagram of elders watching the water holes.

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  3. Now I know the indiginous astralians object to the term,
    I will never use it again
    Koori... what a lovely sound
    the work is amazing

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  4. After you dyed, you left a beautiful legacy of rich colours, Ahhh.....

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  5. I love the colours and organic shapes in these pieces. Beautiful!

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  6. that third image is actually a close-up of the trunk of a eucalypt...but does rather look as though "dyed-in-the-wool"

    :)

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  7. Lovely snaps. Especially the last one.

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  8. out of deep in the earth comes this pattern to show the richness of nature through the hands of your student..who is teaching who...

    yvette

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