Found & Gathered, A Workshop with Seth Apter

 It has been a couple of weeks since this workshop but life intervenes and I guess better late than never. Another fabulous workshop as part of the Autumn program at Fibre Arts Australia. I find these week long intensive classes very inspiring and relish the opportunities that the program provides.

Seth is a mixed media artist from New York, here demonstrating. Lots of techniques covered in the class.

The plan was to produce a book, which was actually a collection of smaller books contained within a book. First up was the creation of papers, complex and layered papers utilising a variety of techniques 

My first papers, a definite grunge aesthetic.

Then onto creating pages and books

Once I had several small books made I could assemble my outer book. This was designed to have a found door hinge wired to the spine, an internal wrap to contain the individual books.

Then onto adding to the pages utilising even more layers of collage, stamp, stitch and ephemera

A tradition of the retreat is the creation of a class project that is auctioned for charity. Our project was for each participant to create a page that would be incorporated into a series of book structures. The first image is the collection and the second is mine. I called it Walk Around Lake Wendouree. It is hard to see the reeds that are partly attached and add a dimension to the work.

All to soon it was over and it was time for the group photo.