Eileen Sedgwick: 2016

Thursday 10 November 2016

Lady of the Forest

The Lady of the Forest is a wild boar sow with her Hoglets

wild boar mythology

excellent article on boar mythology in Britain from the Thegns of Mercia

Wednesday 5 October 2016

... Thief in the Night ...

A little Boggart, Brownie or House Elf...helping himself to all those things you can never find...

Wednesday 24 August 2016

My first attempt at a traditional Staithes style bonnet is complete!! Quite pleased but might make the back sun-flap a little longer in another version. This is bigger than the old one I bought, but am still not sure it's as large or 'full' as some of the ones I've seen in other FMS photos.

Interesting side-point...there's a long running argument about whether the bonnet was tied under the chin or backwards to the nape of the neck. I've tied mine to the back which many say is how it was done...but you can clearly see in all the photos of Mrs Ann Scarth, as shown in this one here, that she always fastened her bonnet in a bow under her chin!

Mk1 bonnet...am making the first out of calico given to me by Maddi to work out how they are constructed...mine will have a bow...

basic shapes cut out...2 large 'D' shapes, one folded up to make a double layer through which channels are sewn to carry the cording, and a drawstring to form the shape. Along the back of the cording is a ruffled strip and a large decorative bow sewn onto the back.

I've chosen to hand sew the whole of this one as I was learning and trying things out all along, so needed to be able to adjust and unpick at times...but many of the bonnets were made partly on the sewing machine which would speed things up considerably! MkII will be.

...If I had a ribbon bow

To hide my hair

If I had a fancy sash

My own true love would find me fair...

Monday 22 August 2016

Staithes Bonnets

My Staithes Bonnet

...am making a new one now...

Thursday 28 July 2016

Sea Witch

As a Piscean and long-time lover of all watery things, this is a return to the Sea. Inspired by a wonderful documentary on the sighting of a Giant Squid by a Japanese Naturalist Tsunemi Kubodera, I began reading about the myth of Toyotama-hime, and created this sensual shape shifting self-portrait as the princess on her Selkie-like return to her sea-home.

Ophelia at the Feast of the Pale Man

Completed most of the scene now

Pan's Labyrinth has always been one of my favourite films;

it's disturbing at times, but also magical and I love it.

The Pale Man is a gruesome and frightening character, but his feast seemed an excellent way to indulge my love of the film and display my collection of miniature foods!

This is a little bit of fun animating the pale man!

Trying out the scene inside the display case...it fits!

Thursday 12 May 2016

The Pale Man

Have completed the monstrous creature at my luscious red feast...the Pale Man

He's got 'open' joints so I can pose him in a variety of ways so he's looking a little more 'skeletal' than the one in the film...but he's close enough ;)