Anyway I produced a few Le Tour brooches as seen on a previous post and I also did a couple of pictures for the current exhibition running at Gallery 49, Art & The Bicycle.
These were my offerings, I shall start with the simple, graphic piece. This is free cut paper which has been machine stitched.
Like with most pieces of work, I usually finish and then think it looks too plain and I start to tinker about or add more. I'm not sure I improved it by adding flowers and text but that's how it went to the gallery.
I'm thinking with hindsight I prefer the pre flower version! Proving that theory I usually try to work to, "less is more".
The other piece of work I did was slightly more labour intensive and involved some screen printing for the background, a bit of distressed rubber stamping and some embellishing with fabric and threads.
Not surprisingly it's called Bike Ride With Butterflies.
