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further info. Project Website: www.merry-go-roundstorytelling.co.uk/testvalleytales - go here for book and podcast Instagram: @testvalleytales @maijaliepins My Test Valley Tales Artwork: thedreamforest.maija.co.uk/testvalleytales The story of the feather cloak begins with a visit to a wintery wood near Amport with Susan Merrick and I, her camera and her dog. We found the most marvellous mossy tree that was the perfect backdrop for a photoshoot and we fell about the woods pretending to fly with invisible wings and playing out the characters of bakers daughter and old woman.
Why A Feather Cloak?
Don't miss the amazing Oral Story Telling at Four Fun Fridays 2021If you haven't heard Amanda tell her stories in person you are missing a real treat. I encourage you to come along and experience it yourself on the last Friday in August. We'll be on Andover High Street from 11am further info.
Project Website: www.merry-go-roundstorytelling.co.uk/testvalleytales - go here for book and podcast Instagram: @testvalleytales @maijaliepins My Test Valley Tales Artwork: thedreamforest.maija.co.uk/testvalleytales Title: 'Missing You' Artist: Maija Liepins Test Valley Tale: The White Trout of Stockbridge by Amanda Kane Smith Earlier this year I began working on a commission to create artwork for Amanda Kane Smith's Test Valley Tales project. She was writing the stories, and I was creating the artwork alongside another artist Susan Merrick. We got to read the drafts of the stories and trekked off to the Test Valley locations on research trips to gather photographs and impressions. We knew that the main character in the story The White Trout of Stockbridge was a young albino woman so I wore black with the idea in mind to reverse the imagine and turn everything white. I think the creation of these images which I manipulated in photoshop set the groundwork for my drawing and led to me choosing black paper. It is actually quite difficult to find a good white ink pen. Luckily I had done some research for an earlier set of drawings but even then I still found it useful to use mixed media for this one as white gel ink pens do not like lines overlapping, it kind of ruins the original lines. I hope you liked seeing these photoshopped images. Photoshop has become a bit of a dirty word of late referring to fakery of 'too perfect' skin and manipulation to 'fix' bad photographs. But it is also powerfully creative offering all sorts of fun tools that can be used to create deliberately unreal arty effects. P.S. isn't that just a wonderful grass tuft? In the photographs? When I am exploring in nature I love noticing details like that to form the basis of my creative impulses and playful responses. further info.Test Valley Tales Artwork: thedreamforest.maija.co.uk/testvalleytales
Project Website: www.merry-go-roundstorytelling.co.uk/testvalleytales - go here for book and podcast Instagram: @testvalleytales @maijaliepins Shop for prints: https://ko-fi.com/thedreamforest/shop Title: Bog Fairy in a Carrot Seed Skirt Artist: Maija Liepins This artwork was commissioned by Amanda Kane Smith for Test Valley Tales project. In the summer of 2020 I had discovered what Wild Carrot seed heads look like. A photo of one taken in the meadow at Harmony Woods became fairy attire, and then made its way into the telling of the story itself. This demonstrates how collaborative the making of Test Valley Tales has been. I liked the idea of a fairy who can be found in the bog. Fairies are hard to spot, and what if their wings were hard to see too? The artwork depicts my idea of the bog fairy who appears in the short story The Feuding Farmers of Harmony Woods published in Amanda Kane Smith's book of Test Valley Tales. I didn't plan for her wings to appear only in her reflection, but as soon as I had drawn her floaty hair it made sense for the bog fairy to have a kind of magic that you can't see unless you look from a particular perspective. I also wanted to create a fairy that looked like she belonged in nature and what goes hand in hand with a muddy puddle? Muddy boots! You might argue that muddy feet would not be a fairy's concern but imagining myself as the characters and imagining young readers imagining themselves as the characters played an important part of my process. So the fairy is wearing my 8yr old welly boots which I would have called gumboots because I lived in Australia when I was eight. Also in the picture you can see some of the other flowers that you can find at Harmony Woods in the summer. Here are some photographs of flowers at Harmony woods which you can spot in the drawing. Test Valley Tales Artwork: thedreamforest.maija.co.uk/testvalleytales
Project Website: www.merry-go-roundstorytelling.co.uk/testvalleytales Instagram: @testvalleytales @maijaliepins
ABOUT THE EVENT
This event is my ‘test run’ for sharing new work in November. Please come support me and have a chat. I will share some of my poems, which were made into a book to accompany the film 'Wild Mother', and you will have the chance to ask questions about anything you like. The poems I have selected relate to the theme of water: the emotional, messy, wild, powerful, ‘feminine’, healing, quenching, gushing, cold, and deep, (and more!) to inspire a conversation about the tangible, emotional, and spiritual experience of the element, in advance of Nothing Is Immediate, an Air and Water themed exhibition at CAS Andover in November 2020. ABOUT THE FILM Maija Liepins, has collected sounds and other sensory impressions on film during daily walks and layered them together with poetry to create a meditative and elemental experience. Join her for a screening of her film The Wild Mother next Saturday at 2pm BST. The artists hands and figure, present in the work, invite you on an intimate journey beyond the garden gate and into the woods where dreams and magic may be found. The film was created in 2018 as part of the artist’s conscious step toward recovering a sense of wellbeing and mental health, drawing on both nature and art to do so. The film takes its name from the book Women Who Runs With Wolves which talks about the wild mother (Baba Yaga), as a re-definition or re-education of what is nurturing of ones own mind body and spirit was needed. The ‘wild mother’ acts as an antidote to what Clarissa Pinkola Estes calls the ‘too good mother’. Collaborating with the weather, the wind, rain and frost, Maija’s film attempts to stir ones inner world. As the weather transforms, so too does ones feelings. It’s almost as if she is making visible the layers of inner and outer experience in one frame. For a taste of my poetry and imagery you can visit www.instagram.com/maijaliepins |
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