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Post by Ann @ frabjous fabrica on May 12, 2020 8:33:41 GMT
Thank you all for your kind comments. The mushrooms were just one of a whole series that I made - after I made the first group, my husband commented that they should sell "like hot cakes" so I made lots more. I ended up giving most of them away! The picture is wet and needle felted with added embroidery stitches. It has been framed and I used some special non reflective glass which our local camera shop uses - it also does bespoke framing. The glass is much better than the usual non reflective which has funny graining in it to deflect reflections. This new glass really does seem to be invisible, except at very oblique angles - it's not cheap though. I entered the picture in the felt section of the annual exhibition of the Dorset Arts and Crafts Association and I got a Gold "Work of Outstanding Merit" for it. I had tried to enter it into the mixed media section of the Art exhibition, but they wouldn't allow it, much to my annoyance. It is so difficult to get "Artists" to accept that textile work can be Art, not "just" Craft.
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Post by lyn on May 12, 2020 9:20:30 GMT
Well done on achieving the gold award - richly deserved!
Your comment about the non-reflective glass is interesting. The only experience I have of it is from years ago and I found it gave a slight yellow tinge. Maybe it was a cheap glass? I'll certainly investigate locally (as soon as possible of course - shops all shut presently) to find the expensive version.
There is definitely a snobbery in the art world towards textile art but I think it's gradually easing.
Anyone who creates something of beauty or interest, from whatever medium, is an artist. The title 'artist' is not just for those who paint!
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Post by Ann @ frabjous fabrica on May 12, 2020 9:41:05 GMT
I think I've found the manufacturer. This is their website. www.groglass.com/product/artglass-ar-70/ Hope this helps. I've always in the past mounted my pictures on canvas blocks covered in fabrics like mock suede, but in the last five or six years thought that if the picture is good enough to hang on the wall it needs to be protected from dust and, more to the point, moth damage. So now I have them all framed - though I have now found a cheap source of box frames which I use to avoid squashing the pictures. It's only the better ones that I bother with the Artglass though.
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Post by lyn on May 12, 2020 10:09:15 GMT
Thank you Ann!
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