Saturday 4 January 2014

Happy New Year everyone 

This is just a short post to say a quick hello
I'm busy working on some new books at the moment and hope to bring you another "how to post" soon!

The images here are from my work on "The Memories of Rosemarie Richter" 
I have been in a very reflective mood recently.........due I think to the start of another new year in my life. My Mother Rosemarie Richter is in her 87th year! It has not been an easy life partly because of her experiences of the war and because she has never had the ability to move on from those years.
If I have learned anything from this........ it is we who choose whether we want to forget or keep feeding those issues, like a cancer that keeps growing until it is all consuming.  

Here are some images of her portrait I created them on Handmade Silk Paper.
Hand stitched with sewing cotton! it was a wonderful lesson in tone and shade while stitching. They have a small amount of graphite on them.

Thanks to all for supporting my new art page Interlaced-Textile Arts on Facebook.






















Each stitch is with single thread cotton........the nearest I could get other than using real hair! That I will leave until another time.


Love Marilyn. xx

11 comments:

  1. This is very beautiful work Marilyn..........

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  2. beautiful work. i am leaning to live in the moment. thinking about the past or the future is overrated.

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    1. I so agree Deanna, what's gone is gone it's what is going to be that's important and finding peace and contentment. Xx

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  3. Beautiful, Marilyn. The last image of the eye is wonderful.

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    1. Thank you Peggy for your lovely comments.

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  4. This is such beautiful painstaking work Marilyn, so incredibly moving. I wonder what did you mother think of your installation - did she find it helpful?

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  5. Marilyn, what a loving tribute to your Mom who is dealing with the things she's experienced the best way she can and you are doing your best to honor her. My own mother is now 90 years old and visiting us for a holiday, and I would love to find a way to honor her life in my work - she too has memories of the war, but her whole focus now is on her family and our well being, so for that I am so very grateful.

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  6. So beautiful, Marilyn! I can't believe these are stitched!

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  7. Wow! Marilyn this is very exciting work!

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  8. This looks like a true labour of love, with an interesting back story.

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