One of my favourite surface design techniques is printing with a gel plate on fabric. In 2019, I got a large 16"x20" printing plate and worked with it for the first time at a group retreat in June 2019. I made some really exciting prints that I loved and wanted to use in my art pieces.
Alas, the fabric was too precious and also difficult to combine with anything else that I had in mind. Off it went into the pile of printed fabrics, not to be seen again for a while.
I tried to make a composition in March of 2022, here is the picture.
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The fabrics were mostly not sewn together yet, and I couldn't get a good composition on my design wall. I tried more unsuccessful combinations, over the span of a year or so, and just couldn't get it right. Back onto the pile with the fabrics!
The Art Cloth Network call for entry for our 2024 exhibition "ReVision" finally gave me the push I needed. I was going to make those fabrics work. I didn't change the colour scheme, as I loved that, but rather introduced new elements, like cyanotype prints and transparent overlays, and really worked hard to achieve a good composition. In the end, I created two artworks I was happy with, and both got accepted into our exhibition. Sometimes, the waiting is as important as the making.
Here are the two pieces.
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