enormous tiny artshow

last year i paticipated in nahcotta gallery's enormous tiny art show and it was great fun! i like working small scale anyway so it's no hardship to make pieces 10" or smaller. anyway, it gets hung next week and this morning i had a lovely congratulatory email from jan from poppytalk giving me the link to a post they did about nahcotta yesterday. oh, excting! it's funny how you make stuff, it takes over your life for a while, you send it off then promptly forget all about it. one day, i'll make it to the opening :) you can some of the completely amazing work included on nahcotta's flickr photostream here.

in my lovely workroom...

i have finished my nahcotta pieces! yay! they have been made so that they work on their own as little pieces of work in their right, but i also wanted to create a piece out of all the little pieces that will work well together in a gallery environment too. (although i want them to be displayed with a little space around them rather than how they are here) i'm obviously heavily influenced by old patchwork designs, this one is based on 'sunshine and shadow' one of my favourites. right, *rolls up sleeves* what's next?

me, maps, and more work

sam and i have been on a trip to norwich this afternoon to order a sliding bi-fold door for the kitchen at the farm...you know the type - flush to the ground, so when you open the doors the outside comes inside and the like...anyway, i printed out how to get there and i also had an a-z of norwich, i was well prepared and reasonably confident that i knew where i was going, after all, i'd lived there for two years. how wrong could i be? it turns out that the roundabout that for the last 10 years i've called the cringleford roundabout is not what everybody else in the world calls the cringleford roundabout. which was rather a large spanner in the works from the beginning. fairly standard crapness as far as me and maps are concerned. i just turn into a wobbly wreck...anyway, enough of all that. doors have been ordered...they're lovely, just deciding on colour...

this morning i worked a little more on a piece for nahcotta...slightly different to the pink piece i made earlier - a bit too guitar-y like (thankyou sam and anna for pointing that out to me!) so i cut the threads down the middle and i'm rather liking!

layers...

i'm doing the enormous tiny art show at nahcotta gallery in september and i thought it was about time i got on with some work. the only 'rules' are that the image size is 10" or less in any direction and it must be original, no prints allowed. so...i got to thinking about the paper quilt i was working on back in april for 'quilt 2008' but missed the deadline for...opps! it was never finished and i thought it would be perfect to use elements of it for the eta at nahcotta. so out it came this afternoon, and i tried out some slightly different ideas, with which i'm pretty happy so far...

opening

friday night was the opening of nahcotta's enormous tiny art show , oh how i wish i'd been there! it looked very busy and exciting going by the pics on the nahcotta photostream. in one of their photos you can see my work behind a couple of people; i have cropped it and it is above. it was nice to get an impression of how it looked, it's hard to imagine when you're so many miles away! oh yeah, i had a sale too! yay!

can you spot me?

this is the postcard produced for nahcotta gallery's enormous tiny art show ii can you see me? i'll be impressed if you can, they're so tiny! (just if you're interested: first row, second in; second row, second in; fourth row, seventh in; seventh row, first in)