Still Drawing & Stitching in 2015!

I have recently had problems logging into my blog, in fact I thought perhaps all was lost, but thankfully and miraculously I am now back to blogging!
So much has changed with social media since my tentative steps into sharing my work on my blog.
Facebook, Flickr, instagram to name a few and I have only recently acquired an iphone!
This year I have been using instagram as it's so easy and quick to upload my photos , if you use it you can find me here  http://instagram.com/michalagyetvai
I have been stitching more than drawing during our cold Winter months, at the moment I'm trying to finish my very large landscape based on the poem by Stephane Mallarme L'après-midi d'un faune and this inspired Claude Debussy's  music of the same name.
I find the music incredibly inspiring, the flute mysterious, it takes me on a journey through a deep colourful, enchanted  Summer forest.

"[This prelude] was [Debussy's] musical response to the poem of Stephane Mallarmé (1842–1898), in which a faun playing his pan-pipes alone in the woods becomes aroused by passing nymphs and naiads, pursues them unsuccessfully, then wearily abandons himself to a sleep filled with visions. Though called a "prelude," the work is nevertheless complete – an evocation of the feelings of the poem as a whole." I hope to exhibit this piece at Bilston Craft Gallery opening on the 16th May with the international textile group Through Our Hands. The exhibition is called "The Liberated Quilt" I'm really looking forward to meeting all the other artists who belong to the group. I will also be showing my textiles with them for the first time this year at The Festival Of Quilts at the NEC in August. Then at the end of the year, again a first, I will be exhibiting with The Knitting & Stitching Show in London, Dublin and Harrogate! So I hope you may be able to visit me in one of these venues. Next week I'm packing for a trip to see my sister in India! I will be staying in Bangalore but I will also be travelling to Jaipur and Jodphur, I'm very excited, as I have never travelled beyond Europe before. My new sketch books have been purchased, I'm sure the experience of a different culture will have an impact on my art work! I hope that I will have a lot to share with you on my blog in the near future.

 

"Within The Forest Of Threads"

Here are some new pieces which I am working on directly from my sketch book.
I still have many paintings of landscapes which are crying out to me to be stitched but I felt compelled to work with these new ideas.
I have been asked if I could run a few one hour workshops for Maderia threads at The Fashion, Embroidery, Stitch Show in March, when I get more details I will share them here.

Michala x

Snow Brooch And Sketches

Hello,

I thought you may like to see a few sketches I made at the weekend and a new tree brooch, listed on etsy today.

It was bitterly cold here, perfect for staying indoors and stitching.

I did venture out on Saturday, to a work shop at the Embroiderers guild in Leamington Spa.

We experimented with transfer dyes, painting and stenciling, then ironing the dyes from the paper on to different types of synthetic fabrics including fine nets and lace.

It was a very interesting day and I came home with lots of samples, of which I still need to photograph.

Today we had a little more snow but it has not been quite as cold, and it looks like we are over the worst of it here.

Hope you have a good week.x