I found the brief very difficult  this time, as nature is such a wide subject and I struggled to pin down my ideas. Eventually I fixed on the notion that nature will re-colonise any patch of land, given the time and opportunity. This would reflect in the way that a neat garden would be overtaken by wild flowers, and become more random.
The design turns from formal garden to weedy jungle in a rough diagonal line from top right to bottom left
I chose a random dyed base fabric as the background, which I screen printed  with  images of wild flowers (cow parsley, I think), with a denser concentration of wild flowers at the bottom of the piece. I used a flowery patterned paper napkin as the main element of the formal garden. I stitched into this in an uneven grid, so that when the tissue was wetted and rubbed away, more of the pattern remained in the area where the grid lines are closer together. The garden elements were emphasised by additional pictures of flowers, cut from seed patterns. The surface of the paper covered sections were ‘stabilised’ using gel fabric medium, before further embellishment with flowers cut from dyed lace and felt.
I transfer printed a sheer fabric with random green, yellow and purple colours before adding more screen prints  of wild flowers to this. The sheer was then bonded to the background fabric to give a layered set of wild flower images. Quilting was added to this section using the same wild flower design, to give a further layer. I hoped that this layering would give a depth which suggested the  dense, tangled and haphazard properties of nature.
I used a rough flower petal design in the quilting of the garden section, together with the addition of beads to ‘quilt’ through all of the layers.
Though the final product may not be  a masterpiece, it is something which I enjoyed doing, and which I learned from.

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