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Magic Cloths and Worry Heads

Use Your Hands For Happiness: 2019

in the first few feverish bed bound days of covid, in the first few feverish bed bound days of covid, Dolly 🐈‍⬛was bringing lots of things to me and leaving them under the bed - later I found this stash of brushes, thread, a nib, and a small shell. 
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#mylittlehelper #magiccat #littleblackcat #studioassistant
. . Red Basin 2018 .. .. #tbt little look back .
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Red Basin 
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#tbt 
little look back at a piece from five years ago - reminds me of a different weird time - but glad it still feels fresh .
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This is sold - but commission slots are available this year. So if you’d like something similar then please email.
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#tbt #textilemaking #screenprinted #appliqued #embroidered #commission #originalartwork #collectart #fineart #contemporaryart #contemporarycraft #abstractcloth #abstracttextiles
🦷 had a flurry of dentist visits to follow covi 🦷
had a flurry of dentist visits to follow covid - -
seeing my molar X-ray with its three roots instead of two + and then unconsciously printing this rooted shape in the studio. 
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#subconsciousshapemaking #wherethingscomefrom #bodymind #bodyshapes #mouthforms #vocabularyofform #assimilation #organicforms #roots #molars #plants #inmyhead #associations #wordsmouth #teeth #hands
w I p s + cloth heritage shapes are protagonists w I p s + cloth heritage 
shapes are protagonists (colour is every thing) but shapes are the story - then recently there are figures but they are also shapes - in the world with other shapes making patterns and rhythm - we being shapes and trying to reach each other. 
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coming out of a good old dose of covid - trying to reconnect things again. somewhere in all this I know what I’m doing . 
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sending best Tuesday wishes from my studio x 
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#studiowork #cloth #abstraction #textileartwork #screenprint #applique #embroidery #stitched #printed #constructed #fineartobjects #textilewallpiece #textileobject #patternandshape #rythmn #maxinesuttonstudio #nework #comingtoyousoon #colouroncloth
🧶 . p l i a b l e … … new compositions + c 🧶
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p l i a b l e 
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new compositions + constellations. 
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#colourandcloth #linen #screenprint #shapes #relationships #woolyarn #studiopractice #wordless #languageofcloth #makingartwork #textileartwork #shapesandpatterns #fineart #fineartist #maxinesuttonstudio
.. workshop studio laboratory atelier - my new wor .. workshop studio laboratory atelier - my new work space 🙏💙 - was previously a GP surgery and a garage - apparently the GP liked boats and the garage was for his boat. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 
screen washout bay exactly fits in the GP’s cupboard with millimetres to spare #serendipity 
And the little doctors hand washing sink is still in the other other cupboard - ( little sink not little doctor - though he might have been 🤔) 
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 working stuff out in here . have a good weekend all x 

#studio #aroom #keepingwarm #workshop #makingspace #maxinesuttonstudio #experimentswithcloth #materiallife #threads #ink #matter
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