A Week with Tara Axford

At this time of the year I usually do a class with Fibre Arts, this year I took a class called A Sense of Place with Tara Axford. It was a fabulous class and a great week away. You can read more about Tara here.  A few photographs of  Lake Wendouree to give a Sense of Place.

The focus of the class was on producing prints using a Gelli plate, Collage and Book making.

Simple book structures to give an impression of the lake.

Using foraged leaves to create botanical prints.

Daily exercises ( Shape, Line, Texture, Botanical) resulted in the production of a Box of Postcards.

A selection of the Postcards, 

Palm book made with off cuts of the papers, vaguely representational of the bark on the many trees both around the grounds and encountered on my walks to the lake.

These tags were made to fit into the pockets of one of the lake books.

A little matchbox covered with one of the printed papers containing a few little feathers gathered from the lake.

One of the fun activities is to create something for the top table, an auction is held of all the items on the top table with proceeds going to a charity in India.

One for me and one for the table. These are paper slip covers to go over a soft drink bottle and form vases. Each person in the class made a vase. 

Another postcard, negative space activity.

Inked Gelli plate with botanical matter laid out in preparation for a print.

Botanical matter, foraged and arranged to help with the Sense of Place.

I walk to the lake and Botanic gardens everyday when I am on a Fibre Arts event, I have been going for a few years and multiple times of the year.

Another little book cover, inspired by my recollection of early mornings around the lake in Winter.

Shades of Autumn, gathered on a walk.