A Workshop With Gloria Loughman

I had long been a fan of Gloria Loughman and when she came to teach in my local town I was up for the challenge. Unfortunately the venue had extremely poor lighting which affected me quite badly and i ended up with what I could only think of as a type of migraine headache. But I did get to create this little masterpiece. We started off dying the fabric and then cut it into strips and realigned it. The outline of the scene was drawn on a backing fabric and the pieces applied in a flip and stitch manner.

This little piece is a landscape from the estuary at Whangamata with the big pohutukawa tree on the walk to the open beach. I wanted to have an open texture to the tree so it was created on water soluble and applied afterwards. The background hills on the other side of the estuary are just commercial cottons and the while thing is free machine stitched.

This is a very simple composition but the idea of deconstruction and then reconstruction was one I would revisit in later quilts