https://www.lisabelsky.com/ Uses porcelain slip Each piece begins as hand knit or crocheted fabric. The fabric is manipulated, shaped and then dipped into porcelain slip. During the firing process the original fabric burns away leaving behind a ceramic remnant or record of what was once there. The stitches, now preserved as clay, have become the structure …
Garden Figure Adieu
Adieu Garden Figure.
Garden figure 26th February 2021
Garden Figure a textile and wire sculpture 2009 - 2021
New Online Course: Contemplative Figure -A Unique Felt Sculpture
My New Online Course begins NEXT WEEK Wednesday 22nd April 2020 CONTEMPLATIVE FIGURE - A UNIQUE FELT SCULPTURE £250.00 ... A quick look at the course: https://youtu.be/Gv-4mZlWRGo Learn how to make a large contemplative sculpture using a wet felt method of sculpting. The sculptures are inspired by the work of modern sculptors, such as …
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New girl on the block
I've taken time out from writing the next figurative course - I had to as there is tree felling going on and the air loud with buzz saws and chippers = NOT music to recording ears! So, I finally finished this new girl today! - she's been lounging around my worktop for ages. Experimented …
Textured skin for large sculptures
I have only made the Contemplative Figures figures with natural, undyed fibres applied straight onto the form, unlike the Dancers that have a separately made decorative skin I am playing with ideas for a colourful, textured skin for the larger figures. Something like this perhaps? Hmmm - an add-on for the Contemplative Figure course …
New Figurative sculpture course! April 2020
A 5-week online course April 22nd - May 22nd 2020 - where you will learn how to make a large contemplative sculpture using a wet felt method of sculpting. These sculptures are inspired by the work of modern sculptors, such as Barbara Hepworth and Sir Henry Moore and others. You will have the opportunity to …
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2019 Review
I have been looking back at the year, as I go through my accounts and plans for 2020. It’s been a significant year for my art practice, taking me on a different and very exciting path! Felt bowl workshop Mayfield School - March Experiment - Raku fired clay and fabric sculptures - April …
Why did I start? Where am I now!
I have been making these figurative wet felted sculptures for over 10 years and people often ask me when, why and how, I started to make them - not the easiest question really! Several thoughts though - I have worked figuratively since about 2005 and the first sculpture I made was for the final show of …
Contemporary Dancer Online Workshop
My new 5 week online workshop Contemporary Dancer - A Unique Felt Sculpture Friday 17th January till Friday 21st February 2020 Registration for the course is open! This is an exciting online workshop where you will make a free standing figure 20"/50cm tall. You will learn a new, energetic wet felted process that has similarities to …