Phoenix Rising

I have just updated my website with a new wall hanging called Phoenix Rising; it is encaustic wax on silk, with hand embroidery and feathers.  You can find it here.  It is a celebration of rising above adversity, of regeneration, of starting anew.

Phoenix Rising - head detail 

©Christine Linton

Creative Fusion - fusing creativity with artistic techniques

At last, the culmination of all the work we put in last year at Marden - our exhibition starts tomorrow 2nd April and runs till 26th April, at the Pepper Street Gallery in Magill, South Australia - any who are able, we'd love to see you there.  It is wonderful to see all the students' work finished and displayed, everything there is so different from the next piece and I like every single piece.  (This is most unusual for me.)  It is called Creative Fusion.  As we can't show anything we are exhibiting online until the end of the exhibition, here is an experimental wax flower garden.  I was working with the mini-iron tip, tiny screws of tissue, which gives the flowers texture, being 3D relief, maybe not obvious here; I worked on one of my free sample glossy photo papers.

flower garden in wax 

©Christine Linton

Ice Crystals as embroidery

One of the constants in my artwork is nature.  I love walking in nature, studying nature, and while birds are my favourite thing, sometimes I see a natural form that is so beautiful I want to interpret it in stitch.  This is what happened here.  While browsing Christi's blog Sweetpea Path, I found her beautiful photo of ice crystals (Ice Crystals photo, look at the blog and go down three photos) and she kindly gave me her permission to use it as the basis for some embroidery.  This is free-machine embroidery.  It is only a sample so I was experimenting and used three different metallic threads, working on some silk on to which I had transferred encaustic wax (always sounds so CAUSTIC but actually is a very gentle technique, just melting wax).  It has rippled because I didn't use a hoop but it actually gives it a more organic appearance.  Like ripples!

Embroidery by Christine Linton

©Christine Linton from a photo by Christi, Sweetpea Path blog

Atlantis

Atlantis - encaustic wax  - 

©Christine Linton

This experiment just asked to be called Atlantis.  A mythical underwater place with strange things growing.  Techniques were shuffling, lifting, dripping, tissues twisted into little strips.  Worked on free glossy photo paper.