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April 2019- Dayschool with Liz Cooksey- Wire Structures

7/4/2019

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We arrived on Saturday to be greeted with a WONDERFUL display of work by textile/mixed media artist Liz Cooksey, and our day school places were already set out with a neat array of materials that we would need, including a narrow tissue-wrapped parcel.
After being introduced by Sandie, we gathered around Liz`s work table and received a hand drawn techniques sheet. Liz proceeded to show us how to straighten and then bend, black iron wire. She bent perfect circles and more complicated shapes, making it look so easy!
Liz then used fabric and paper to gather, fray, glue and stitch to fill in the spaces in the wired shapes, standing each element that she made in a piece of plastercine. She then challenged us to make elements using our own materials or to use any of the materials on her table, which included handmade stamps and ink pads, fabric, papers, needles and so on
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After returning to our own workspace, we opened our parcel to a lovely selection of wires, pre-bent by Liz, so we were able to start creating elements immediately. After much fiddling, faffing, stitching and using glue with not-so-nimble fingers, a lovely display of elements appeared on pieces of plastercine, with Liz giving her time freely with advice and suggestions.
At about 1.30pm, after breaking for lunch individually, we came together for instruction on how to create a finished piece by weaving and gluing the elements together. Back at our workspace, we continued putting our own elements together using straight wires, arcs or circles.
After a dash to the finish time, thirteen lovely pieces of work on a white sheet of paper were displayed on the `show and tell` table, each one individual and unique. 
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​After a fairly intense but hugely satisfying day, Carole thanked Liz for helping us to achieve our examples. Look out for Liz`s work. It is stunning and well worth seeing!
Whilst the day school members were busy the ‘Stitch and Chat’ group were also being industrious, as always, by working on their own projects which included Crewel work, wire work, free style embroidery, stitching encrusted stones, weaving woven woods and knitting and crocheting.​

Thanks as always to Sylvia and Barbara for running the shop, Stephanie for the library and to Liz our treasurer.
YD
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