International art

This week I received this beautiful little painting from Elspeth in Trinidad and Tobago. Although she didn't mention it, I assume it is part of the International Art Exchange that I participated in a while ago. Thanks Elspeth, I love it!



Today I received this gorgeous postcard from Sally in Tasmania. The feathers are lino printed, she took Dijanne Cevaal's lino printing class - and got me so envious that I have signed up for it too! It starts next week, I'm really looking forward to it.



This beauty, that I received a few weeks ago, is from Nadia in the Netherlands, she blogged about it here.



And finally, this card is from my blogless friend Emma in Sydney. I inspired her to make fiber postcards; this is her very first one! Well done Em!

I sent each of these ladies one of my Dutch Houses postcards. I still have a few left; if you would like to swap a fiber postcard just drop me a line!

International Art

Yesterday I received these beautiful cards from Andrea in Paris - so I did get some international art after all! Thanks Andrea, I love them.

Meanwhile Gunnel in Sweden has received my mandala and told me she really likes it (see her comment on the previous post). This international art exchange really is great fun. (let me know if you would like to join and I'll send you the email! I still haven't found 6 participants.)

The Dutch Quilters Guild has put an interview with me on its website - you can read it here. Well, it's in Dutch so most of you will probably not be able to read it... but you can have a look at my quilts. They look very nice there, if I say so myself!

International Art Exchange

Last week I got an email from Emmy in the Netherlands, inviting me to an International Art Exchange. It was a chain letter in a nice form (or so I thought), asking me to send a small work of art ('a little drawing, a print, card, small stitched item, a comic or an art zine, or whatever you think is a good idea') to the number one on the list (the sender was number two), and to send the email on to six other artists. In that email you should of course make the original sender number one and put yourself as number two.

I thought it was a nice idea and made the mandala above for the number one in my email, a lady in Sweden (I'll reveal her name when she has received it. I'm quite sure she doesn't read this blog though). I used the mandala stencil from the book I bought at the Queensland Quilt Show, a silver Paintstik and some handdyed fabric, fast-2-fuse and a blue metallic thread. The diametre is about 15cm.

I sent the email to six of my online art quilt friends/acquaintances. Four of them replied that they were too busy, the other two did not reply. I sent it to six others - four replied that they were too busy, one said she would join in (yay!), one didn't reply... I sent it to five more persons - two replied that they were too busy, the others did not reply...

I guess I may not receive anything, but I had fun making this little work of art and just hope that the recipient will like it too!