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Lois Parish-Evans, Tauranga, New Zealand

Website: www.loisparishevans.com
Facebook: Lois Parish-Evans Textile Artist
E-mail: loisparishevans@gmail.com

Lois Parish Evans is an award winning textile artist/art quilter who currently lives in Tauranga, NZ. Learning to sew and draw from an early age, Lois merged her two favourite subjects whilst at Art School and has been creating textile art and exhibiting for many years.
Included in her accomplishments are 5 solo exhibitions, plus juried into numerous national and international exhibitions and traveling exhibitions, and a range of awards.

Lois finds her inspiration in observing and exploring the natural environment, and she looks for the extraordinary in the ordinary.   Beginning from a photograph the elements of colour, line, shape and pattern are translated into a drawing, often simplified to their essence, then deconstructed and reconstructed into a textile artwork.  She is fascinated by ‘structure’ – the structures she sees in nature and the structure created through building layers in her creative work.  Her main tool is the sewing machine, which she uses to draw with, and the supporting techniques are often a combination of raw edge applique, hand colouring/painting, hand stitching and free machine quilting. Her art quilts are often a form of representational abstraction.

Firewheel SpectacularFirewheel Spectacular 2

Retail Price: NFS (Private Collection)
Dimensions: 102x43cm (H x W)
Statement: Exploring the positive and negative shapes of the Firewheel flower, deconstructing and reconstructing into new possibilities – perhaps an underwater world, a new cosmos, or under the microscope….
Exhibitions:
Finalist for the Miles Art Awards, Tauranga Art Gallery, NZ; Merit Award for Medium Quilt at the Great NZ Quilt Show 2019
Photographer: Lois Parish-Evans

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Anna Brown’s design inspiration comes from a deep-seated connection to nature and her immediate environment. Her pattern making results from a study of the eucalypt canopies near her home. She works directly with her materials, preferably natural fabrics, cotton, linen and silk, cutting and layering intuitively. Hand quilting introduces texture and depth to her work and is an important link to traditional roots in quilt making.

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Suzanne Gummow trained as a Visual Arts Educator lecturing in both secondary and tertiary education. She has been a dedicated teacher for over 50 years and has taught at many different high schools in South Australia during her career, she is now retired. She also teaches private workshops in textiles, quilt making and art throughout Australia.

The need to explore my thoughts in textiles is a passionate driving force. Playing with strong colours, painting in rich thread bringing together tactile surfaces in my textiles constantly gives me an amazing sense of excitement each time I create a new piece.

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Apple Isle Series: Bright and frozen with Tino on the radio (40x40cm) by Lynne Hargreaves

Born in the UK, Lynne Hargreaves worked as a graphic designer moving into design training in 1978. 20yrs in vocational and tertiary education followed. Joining the cultural sector and arts management in 1998 she retired to Tasmania in 2017 from the position of Director of Exhibitions & Collections at the Art Gallery of WA. She has worked in partnership with institutions such as the Louvre, Tate, V&A, St Petersburg State Theatre, and most recently the MoMA, NY to present renowned artworks in Perth. Entering a new chapter of her career she now has a focus on her own textile practice.

She is currently working with the broader linear qualities of the landscape. The Apple Isles Series takes inspiration from her home in Tasmania’s Tamar Valley. Simplifying and abstracting elements she explores drawing with stitch and surface texturing. The work displayed features experiments with hand-dyed fabric. The differing hues are layered and pieced together and then overworked with double-needle and free-motion machine stitching. Linear patterning is worked in machine and hand embroidery and is a colour study for a large work.

“An early start, listening to garden guru Tino Carnevale on the car radio I was enchanted by the morning, the brilliance of colour belying the cold of the frozen fields which the sun had yet to touch. The work is a miniature study of ideas and impressions from that morning.”

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