International FreeForm Fiberarts Guild: Flora and Fauna

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2016 Veronica Smith

Veronica Smith

Jimboomba.

Queensland, Australia

This work depicts the colours of 3 species of native Australian birds that we are fortunate to have visit our home daily

The earth tones with a shot of blue belong to the Blue-winged Kookaburra (Dacelo leachii).

The simpleness of the yellow against crisp white is the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita).

The vibrant blue, green, red and yellow belong to the Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus).

2016 Tia M.M. Hegstad

Tia M.M. Hegstad

from Edinburgh, Scotland, living in Moss, Norway.

The ferocious Scottish wildcat,

The majestic red deer doe,

The playful river otter

And the owl with eyes aglow.

The tenacious west coast midgie,

The horned heilan coo,

Nessie hiding in the depths,

Hill haggis hiding too.

The heron standing fishing,

The frog ready to leap,

The beaver shoring up his lodge

And adders on the heath.

Lots of different beasties,

Flowers, trees and plants,

The nature of my homeland,

Kept lush by rain in slants.

One afternoon, after a shower of rain, I went out into the garden and saw the pretty white daisies on the lawn, and the pink roses tumbling around the white wrought iron bower with the raindrops still glistening on their petals.

I fed the birds, chased away a fox, and all this inspired my contribution to the Challenge.

I tried to encapsulate the flora and fauna found in my own garden, and decided to incorporate this idea by utilising an umbrella and turning it into a parasol.

2016 Shannon Hunter

Shannon Hunter

Tamborine, Australia

This freeform sleeveless vest, fastened with two handcarved wooden toggles, is inspired by a category of flora often overlooked; the mosses, worts, fungi and lichens which abound in the rain forests of my beloved Scenic Rim, wherein I live and create. Tamborine is on the edge of the Green Cauldron, the extinct volcanic caldera of South East Queenland which contains the World Heritage listed Gondwana Rainforests of Australia.

The colours, shapes and textural diversity of these amazing little plants is a never-ending source of inspiration for my freeform work, and I don't know which part of this project gave me more pleasure; the hours of walking and photographing through the cool, damp shade, or the translating of it, hour by day by month into a finished piece of wearable art.....though I don't know if we can ever say a freeform piece is "finished"....there is always just one more bit to add.

2016 Saffron Smith

Saffron Smith

Jimboomba

Queensland, Australia

Shapes are inspired by the various fungi and moss on the walls of the trees of the Tambourine rain forest.

Colours influenced by the flowers and trees of native Australian flora.

My personal interpretation of an Australian butterfly, the Cairns Birdwing.

2016 Rita Summers

Rita Summers

mutation

where did you come from

what are you

did you evolve or did

someone make you

your tendrils trail and twist

your shell seems rigid

and yet there’s life

so what are you

Mutation

Materials and techniques

Eco printed brown paper from grocery bags (eucalyptus leaves, rusty nails, onion skins); eco dyed silk tape; dyed wool thread; crochet; hand stitching.

Wet formed between glass bowls.