It was part of the FibreArts Australia forum held at Ballarat Grammar - almost of week of art-making and mixing will lovely like-minded people. It was excellent!
Lorna is primarily a painter, but her speciality is that she makes her own brushes from a range of found and natural materials. The brushes are themselves works of art, but are also the means for some very expressive, gestural mark-making.
So these are some of the brushes I made....
After a bit of messing about with the ink and the various brushes, we began to make some books...
working on different types of found papers and fabric, which we were then encourages to tear up and use to collage. It was all very liberating experimental. A bit like play...in a good way!
There was also some stitching (as this was a fibre foum).
Most days I went for a late afternoon walk around Lake Wendouree, which was very close and much bigger and more beautiful than I'd realised.
