Experimenting with basketry last year. Rattan reed and rubber.

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Binding cane, hand spun Japanese cotton and cotton. Available through Abbozzo gallery in Toronto.
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An older piece, reworked. Cotton and rattan reed woven on a four shaft loom.
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Mushroom woven (twined) in white paper yarn held up to light. The twined stakes are brought together in the centre, creating "gills" on the underside before being bound together to form the stalk.

Day 12, #artAdventCalendar
Work in progress. I love the structure of fungi and have just started experimenting with how to recreate some of these forms using traditional basketry techniques. This could take quite a while!
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Sycamore seed woven from white paper yarn containing orange felted seeds, hanging from lichen-covered branch against grey background

Bean pod woven from white paper yarn containing orange felted beans, hanging from lichen-covered branch against grey background

Stylised sweet gum seed woven from white paper yarn containing orange felted centre against grey background

Stylised Chinese lantern seedpod woven from white paper yarn containing orange felted seed, hanging from lichen-covered branch against grey background

Close up of stylised sycamore, runner bean, sweet gum and Chinese lantern seedpods. #sculpturalbasketry #randomweave #contemporarybasketry #seedpods #artAdventCalendar

50 pods woven from bindweed hung in a spiral formation in a gallery

Day 2 #artAdventCalendar
Rebound, 2021. Bindweed. #contemporarybasketry #randomweave #spiral #sculpturalbasketry
I spent hours carefully removing bindweed from gardens and using it to random weave 50 spherical pods. I hung these in an anticlockwise spiral formation to represent how bindweed grows.

My first #artAdventCalendar post, explaining my avatar. Limpet pot, 2021. Coiled vessel, linen, hemp and wire. #contemporarybasketry #coiledbasketry #sculpturalbasketry