'in The Woods'

'Bright and dark'

'A tiny house in the middle of a lake'

Acrylic paint on gesso, linen patches and paper: 10.5 x 14.8 cm

From the 'Water' painting series (March 2020)

— Tamembro

make objects that talk — and then listen to them

Sometimes you need to scan the forest, sometimes you need to touch a single tree — if you can't apprehend both, you'll never entirely comprehend either. To see things is to enhance your sense of wonder both for the singular pattern of your own experience, and for the meta-patterns that shape all experience. All this suggests a useful working approach to making art: notice the objects you notice. (e.g. Read that sentence again.) Or put another way: make objects that talk — and then listen to them.

📖 'Art & Fear' : Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking (1993) by David Bayles & Ted Orland

Bird and a twig

(2018)

A small stream flows through a grassy green field.

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Living The Green Dream - embroidery work

Living the Green Dream (2018 - 2020)

Hand embroidered with stranded cottons on a raw canvas, diameter 26cm / 10"

— Tamembro

"I see you behind the bamboo trees"

hand-stitched, ink on used tea-bag

— Tamembro (2019)

"hi, what do you see?"

“October in the Chair,” Neil Gaiman, featured in M is for Magic

“The stories she could tell”

2017. Mixed media on canvas.

— Tamembro

The Sketch Hunter - embroidery work

The Sketch Hunter – 17cm x 14cm on linen

She carries her sketchbook everywhere, collecting ideas.

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The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook. Like any hunter he hits or misses. He is looking for what he loves, he tries to capture it. It’s found anywhere, everywhere. Those who are not hunters do not see these things. The hunter is learning to see and to understand—to enjoy.

— Robert Henri, from The Art Spirit (Basic Books, 2007)