Artworks
It takes approximately one month from start to finish to create one of my Lotus botanical watercolour paintings.
In this video, I talk about the concept, finding the dried leaves, and the artistic process through to the finishing. I hope you enjoy 🙂
The recent edition of Down Under Textiles gave our upcoming exhibition, Partners in Textile, the cover (woohoo!) plus six pages.
I find being published as exciting as showing in a gallery!
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So if you’re anywhere near Brisbane, Cooroy or the Sunshine Coast, do come see us!
Where? The Butterfactory, Cooroy, 12 th August 2017 – read more >>
If you’d like to chat, you can also find me on Facebook and Instagram.
Iconladies ready to stitch or frame.
Painted on silk, 30 years ago!
Eventually I sold this piece just as it is here. Like me, she will still be going into her seventies.
Want to see more? Come and see her latest incarnations at my upcoming Exhibition at The Butterfactory, Cooroy, on the 12th August 2017
So – who is Janet De Boer? I first met Janet somewhere in the 1970s, when I first discovered textiles.
Well-known in the Australian textile art industry, Janet has nurtured many textile artists over the decades and became our Mentor as well. Janet was instrumental in bringing textile artists from other countries to showcase and teach their work, and together with Australian textile artists created an incredible resource of knowledge and skills to share.
Owner and Manager of Gallery 159 in Brisbane for many years, it was a sad day indeed when Janet decided it was time to close the Gallery which had been loved by so many for so long.
Janet De Boer came to Australia from the USA on a working holiday in 1975, fell in love with Queensland (and then with an Australian) and has remained.
While initially working as an Occupational Therapist, she also had a well-developed passion for the textile arts and gravitated towards a young not-for-profit organisation known as TAFTA (The Australian Forum for Textile Arts) which became national in 1987, with Janet as its CEO until 2015.
Over the years she created a quality magazine, Textile Fibre Forum, which became quarterly, and she developed week-long ‘FORUM’ conferences that had a focus on outstanding workshops offered by Australians and also overseas tutors.
For 13 years from 2003 to 2016, Janet was director of TAFTA’s dedicated gallery space, Gallery 159.
Having become an Australian citizen in 1995, Janet received an O.A.M. for her service to the textile arts in 2004.
Although retired now, Janet continues to produce a substantial Newsletter / “e-bulletin” as a free service for around 5,000 subscribers, and she writes for Australian and international textile magazines.
Luckily for us, Janet De Boer still loves Queensland.
I have partnered with two of my wonderful long-time arty friends — Sybil Orr and Cathy Moon — to create a Textile Exhibition to showcase a marvellous variety of the artwork we create. We do hope you can join us!
As well as the delightful Art Gallery exhibition space, we will have Artist Stalls (mine — Helen McIntosh, plus Cathy Moon and Sybil Orr, as well as woodworker Bill Orr, and Marion Glover of Beautiful Silks with her vast array of silk scarves and other goodies).
Promotional Tables include Morningside Picture framers, Al Comicae photography, Patches Of Cooroy local quilt group and Teena Hughes, an art marketing, website and video marketing specialist.
If you can make it, do please come and introduce yourself — I’d love to meet you!
Cheers,
Helen x
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If you’d like to chat, you can also find me on Facebook and Instagram.
I was fascinated by the knitted tea cosies I found in second-hand shops because they’re diverse, original, made by people being creative who aren’t worried about status or artistic value. They are genuine hand-craft.
I have created cloth dolls instead of plastic or Barbie dolls etc, and use my own ideas for tea cosies. Being me, I can’t help going “over the top” where “more” is better, and better still 🙂
I see them as a celebration of women and craft, and who doesn’t love a cup of tea?
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I create upcycled artworks by repurposing older materials and whatever is to hand in my Workshop.
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Above: mosaics , china from the stash.
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mosaic Iconladys.
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My jewellery making is on hiatus, the photos below are of pieces I’ve created in the past, all of which now have homes (and have been sold.
When I create anything new, I’ll add it here. Enjoy!
