Time and Trees: Springtime

In this series I will be thinking about the passage of time and how trees are affected by it. I love trees and see the seasons and changes in their forms.In this first piece I see the tree in springtime when new leaves are appearing, skies are becoming lighter, new delicate flowers are starting to appear in the undergrowth and there is the promise of more things to come.

The background is a raw edge patchwork of pale greens and blues, and yellow (which is the colour of spring for me). I used manipulated silk sari strips for the tree trunk, with hand stitched thinner branches, twigs and new leaves. I added straight stitch hand quilting for the air around the. tree, in yellow and orange to hint at sunshine beginning to bathe the world in warmth. I used machine quilting to add stalks of dried plants in the undergrowth, with hand stitching to add new stalks and emerging flowers amongst the old ones.

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