Art Sunday; Moy Mackay

                                    Moy Mackay

Moy graduated from  the Glasgow School of Art in 1990 with a BA (Hons). She was born in Edinburgh in 1966, trained in Glasgow and now works in the Scottish Borders.
Her work is rich, vibrant, based on the landscape around her and made from fibers.  She has had numerous exhibitions in the UK and USA.. She works from  her home in the Tweed Valley on the Scottish Borders creating unique pieces using Merino Fleece fibers. She uses her fibers as other would use a paint brush.
The result is a “felt painting” with warmth, texture and light. Her utter delight in the landscape is visible  in every fiber of her unique work.
Moy’s paintings are created by replacing paint as a medium with dyed sheep’s fleece, she combines traditional felting techniques with embroidery. 

Through the action of rubbing and rolling, the fibers are joined together to create a unified work, which is usually embellished with hand and machine embroidery to give results that are rich in colour and texture. 

Art, Fabric Art

 

I’m away for the weekend but before I go here is a something that I’ve been thinking about these last few of days. We can thank Kathy and her inspirational ‘Bear & Pear’ for this post. In my conversations with her I began thinking about all the different types of ‘fabric art’ there are out there. Once you start looking its incredible how many artists are producing some type of art using fabrics, threads and beads. This is an art form I don’t think about very often, but thanks to Kathy. I’ve found myself thinking about it today.

These ( and the fabric figures above) are just a couple of the works found on this  site profiling many different artists who work with fabrics.


http://www.textilearts.net/directory/people_and_places/artists

And this is a selection of work by Jenni Cadman from her flickr site, showing her amazing collection of fabric art.



FROM
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jencad/

I couldn’t resist a few photos of vintage sewing machines, I love these old machines. I can’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t own a sewing machine and many of them have been quite similar to these.
Even now I prefer my old treadle machine to the new all singing all dancing machines.
And talking of ‘all singing, all dancing’….. some music to finish up with.

Opening scene from a 40s musical starring Betty Hutton.

Hutton's most notable film role was the part of Annie Oakley in the 1950 musical of "Annie Get Your Gun." One of her best known songs, "Blow a Fuse" (later renamed "It's Oh So Quiet"), was covered by Icelandic artist, Bjork (Björk)

delete reply greenwytch wrote on Aug 21, '11 oh yeah.....fer sher. totally groovy, babe. hehe

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Aug 21, '11 greenwytch said and LOL........Bongwater! lol... ha ha ha ... as I posted this I thought of you, kinda thought you would enjoy it :-)

delete reply greenwytch wrote on Aug 21, '11 perfect as always, Loretta. i am fascinated by the fabric sculptures at the top. and LOL........Bongwater!

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Aug 21, '11 Agnes I still have a treadle machine exactly the same as this one, I love it.

delete reply agnes128 wrote on Aug 21, '11 LOL at the Singer sewing machine, they are so pretty and still useful. I worked once on one like that: http://images02.olx.fr/ui/4/18/33/63751533_3-machine-a-coudre-a-pedale-singer-annee-1894-Art-Antiquites-Monnaies-Collections.jpg Very funny, you have to catch the rythm to sew and pedal at the same time ;-D Some of their fabrics are really works of art.

delete reply nemo4sun wrote on Aug 21, '11 cool stuff my mom had an old sewing machine like that :)

delete reply pestep55 wrote on Aug 20, '11 Wonderful /:-)

delete reply mitchylr wrote on Aug 20, '11 Jenni Cadman's work is very good.

delete reply forelithe wrote on Aug 19, '11 Great post ! i loved all videos but Fanny in particular. My mom used to make quilts she's 92 and just finished her last one a couple of years ago for my grandson, a beautiful and emotion filled art form.

delete reply artprevails wrote on Aug 19, '11 I paint on silk...you can see some pics on my site, Loretta. http://artprevails.multiply.com/photos/album/14/Painted_Silk_by_Melody

delete reply brendainmad wrote on Aug 19, '11 Love the fabric pieces but love those old sewing machines more.

delete reply kathyinozarks wrote on Aug 19, '11 what a wonderful post Loretta, I loved everything-that is a fabulous collection of fiber artsts at that site-you chose some good ones-enjoy your weekend