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Painting
on Silk
When
the first silk fabric was woven they might have said - yuck: white,
boring, impossible to keep clean. It's painting on silk time to get
some colour into it...
it'll
look better and besides, if it does get dirty no-one
will notice (chuckle).
Fashion, colour, silky
fabrics... vacations
to me
are all about opening your mind to new ideas, colour,
touch... it could be vacations to Mexico, Spain, Cuba, Hong Kong or
Thailand.Of
the last two, I have deliriously fond memories of being spoilt for
choice: you name it, they had it; you want one, they
make one.. Silk shirts, dresses, trousers, ties, even shoes.
I
like to vacation somewhere
hot, generally; but I did also enjoy going to the snows on occasions.
Bulgaria and Austria. Names
like Ischgl and St.Anton, Krazy Kanguruh
and Mooserwirt spring to mind.
We made
firm
friends with some of the people on vacations - those were the days,
when I enjoyed skiing and apres-skiing!Unfortunately
I suffered a stroke in 1995... a bad one. It was a massive
brain haemorrhage, caused by an AVM, Arterio
Venous
Malformation,
a
birth defect, which I didn't know I had.
The
stroke
which resulted devastated me. I couldn't walk,
talk,
read or write, and my short-term memory was severely affected, in that
I
couldn't remember anything; my mind was a total blank, not
one idea at
all.
Imagine
Groundhog Hour, never mind Groundhog Day. When your short-term
memory goes walkabout, the concept of 'future' can be quite
frightening, considering you've forgotten the beginning of a sentence
when you're halfway through it.
And, I was in a wheelchair, my right side was paralysed. That was
a low point in my life.
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But,
as I
began to recover some little bits of who I really was, learning to read
again and write with my left hand and draw and paint (I was a right
hander before my stroke), my husband felt that it was very important to
generate interest... any sort of interest.
Chaining my
short-term memory to the wall to avoid it wandering off again was a
constant challenge.
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To think
outside of myself,
my ideas were too close. I was being blinkered, with just day
to day
living; it was time to broaden my horizons.
Maybe art was a good starting point. Any
ideas? We started off by
charcoal drawing. No colour.. I didn't like that at all, even though I
could barely talk, my gestures conveyed my displeasure. My husband got
very good at charades after awhile. Next we tried crayon painting, a
little bit better.
Though, I tired quite easily as my one and only hand
had to compensate for the other. My right arm was just lying on the
arm-rest on the wheelchair, and my left hand did all the work. After 10
minutes I would have this excruciating shoulder pain. Hmmm ... Onto the
next few ideas... |
Finally, I
tried painting on silk. It was
such a release. All that energy
came
out of nowhere, or somewhere locked deep inside. The colours of
the paint were so beautiful and I could mix whatever shade I
liked.
The ideas
came pouring forth.
It was good therapy I feel, and I was doing something I love. I love
colour, so this medium of art was fantastic for me.
I started
with
quite small paintings, my control of the drawings (I had to draw
free-hand in pencil first) was a bit
shaky at first, as I was still
getting used to writing, drawing,
painting with my left hand.
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And,
because any two paintings will never be the same, drawing
free-hand, mixing the colours, I have the option of changing the hue,
to lighter and darker or alter it completely to get a kaleidoscope of
complementary colours.
My
silk-paintings
are quite large, so when they're completed, they can be worn as a
scarf, can be
framed as a picture and hang it up in your home, or an oversized
silk-painting can be worn as a pareo.
It is so
light, great for
clothing capsule vacation ideas when packing clothes - great ideas! |
Some
of Jacqui's best pieces are available to purchase. Remember
that
they are totally one-off, unique, never to repeated.
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have a look. |
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