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Carol Harvey is a fibre and pigment artist who uses natural inks, paints and fibres to describe the landscape from which they are sourced 🎨

Pebbling Watching the trickling stream Curling an

Pebbling

Watching the trickling stream
Curling and swirling
Carving it's life path
Between the stones and forest greenery
Feeling daydreamy
As it tells the stories of my childhood
One pebble at a time

The stream running into Pool Meadow inspired this artist's book that reminded me of happy childhood memories sitting by a stream making pinch pots with clay from the stream's banks. I used clay from the Pool Meadow stream to paint the stones on the linen ribbon.

Pebbling is a term that refers to small acts of kindness inspired by penguin behaviour. Penguins bring pebbles to one another as gifts.

Adorable at the highest level 🐧💕🐧

#artistbook #naturalpigments #soilpigment #naturalpaints #connectedtonature #art #happychildhoodmemories #natureinspires #foreststream

An artist book called Pebbling, inspired by the st

An artist book called Pebbling, inspired by the stream that drains into Pool Meadow, similar to the stream I spent many happy hours beside on my childhood farm in Canada making thumb pots from the clay along it's banks. I used the clay from the banks of this stream to paint the pebbles on the linen ribbon and added two mare's tail reeds from Poole Meadow.

#artistbook #poolmeadow #chippingnorton #stream #mixedmediaartist #art #clay #naturalpaint #lovenature #childhoodmemories #nature

Texture reveal 🎨

Texture reveal 🎨

Couldn't resist painting these shiny chestnuts I g

Couldn't resist painting these shiny chestnuts I gathered yesterday while sketching. Always happy when I manage to paint all the colours using my natural crayons and paints.

Who else channels their inner child when they find the first shiny chestnut/conker of the season and put it in their pocket like I did!?!

#chestnuts #conkers #chestnuttrees #fall #firstsignsofautumn #art
#naturalwatercolourpaints #naturalcrayons #pigments

Lovely afternoon sketching at Pool Meadow today wi

Lovely afternoon sketching at Pool Meadow today with the help of a special assistant.

So much inspiration for my course here and many wonderful nature finds.

Let it begin 🎨

#poolmeadow #beaumontrivers #chippingnorton
#watercatchmentarea
#naturalwatersystem
#art #mixedmediaartist
#artcourse #fibreartstaketwo

A sticky little weave using plum and other twigs f

A sticky little weave using plum and other twigs fallen in our garden bound together with corn husk cordage, also from our garden. The colours are so good together 🎨

Love the fact that I could return this little piece of art to nature and it would decompose in time because it is made of 100% natural materials.

#artmeetsnature #naturalart #purenaturalartmaterials #art #weaving #twining #twiningmethod #cordage
#fibrearts #mixedmediaartist

Excited as a school girl to begin this course toda

Excited as a school girl to begin this course today with Debbie Lyddon through Fibre Arts Takes Two. Cannot wait to learn new techniques and go deeper with my art practise.

This does mean that I will not be teaching adults in my studio this term.

However I will still be teaching young students in my SATURDAY CREATIVE CLUB beginning Saturday 4th October, the usual morning 10-12 and afternoon 2-4 sessions for 5 - 15 year olds. Message me for more details or to book 🎨

#lifelonglearning #artcourses
#fibrearts #creativeclub #mixedmediaartist #art #artmeetsnature #textileart

Happy with this finished piece which I have been w

Happy with this finished piece which I have been working on gradually through the summer.

'As Long as the Meadow Blooms' consists of one wrapped twig for each day the flowers bloomed in the meadow near my home, 83 in total, connected together using the twining method with natural cordage made from day lily leaves.

This piece holds an environmental message; as long as the meadow blooms, we will be ok. Where there are wildflowers there are pollinators, where there are pollinators there is life.

It also holds hours of connection to nature, enjoying the variety of colours and textures in each twig from different tree species and making considered decisions about how and with what to wrap it, either contrasting the natural colours of the bark or camouflaging my work to them.

Then dipping both ends in encaustic wax and assembling them in an order that flows.

#pollinators #meadowflowers
#meadows #wildflowers #art #fibrearts #naturalcordage #naturalfibre #twigwrapping #connectedtonature #nature
#treespeciesuk #fibreartist #artmeetsnature #ecology #natureinspired #beefriendly

August is a month of abundance, the beginning of s

August is a month of abundance, the beginning of seed, nut and berry production: elderberries, hazelnuts, dock, calendula, plums, oak galls, geranium, acorns, sloe berries, walnuts, blackberries.

Absolute heaven for a pigment artist, so I have been gathering and drying dye stuffs for ink, paint and fabric dyeing, and as a family, freezing, canning and making jelly and plum sauce.

August is wonderful and generous in so many ways.

#virgo #august #abundantharvest
#oakgallink #walnutink #pigmentartist #naturalartmaterials

Work in progress - 83 twigs wrapped, both ends dip

Work in progress - 83 twigs wrapped, both ends dipped in encaustic wax to seal them.

Onto the assembly.

#fibrearts #twigwrapping #natureinspired #naturalfibres #naturallydyedwoolandfabric #naturalcordage #mixedmedia #mixedmediaart #cordage #intuitiveweave #nature #bark #intouchwithnature
#connectiontonature #art

This tribal tradition of twig wrapping to create j

This tribal tradition of twig wrapping to create journey sticks is ssooo satisfying.

These were used for tactile maps and visual storytelling by aboriginal and indigenous communities, and in modern day used in forest school to encourage observation skills, to record adventures and explorations and to encourage connection to nature.

To make mine I am using naturally dyed wool and fabric, natural cordage, collage paper painted with natural inks and paints and nature finds.

These will be assembled into larger art pieces 🎨

#journeysticks #twigwrapping
#connectedtonature #nature #intunewithnature #art #naturefinds #naturewalk #forestwalks #naturallydyed #naturallydyedwoolandfabric #naturalcordage #naturemeetsart #connectedtonature

My favourite piece of the summer, 'Memory of a Mea

My favourite piece of the summer, 'Memory of a Meadow', natural cordage woven through dried meadow plants using the twining method.

#ukmeadows #meadows
#naturalartmaterials #art #weaving #naturalweaves
#mixedmediaartist #artist #twiningmethod #fibreartist #oxfordshireartist #fibreart #cotswoldlandscape
#cotswoldartist #weaver

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