Vision

This is a picture i took in Singapor 2 years ago. Which are your limits?

4th mandala

Drawn from a design of one of my photo with a photoshop effect

3rd mandala

playing with colors

2nd mandala

Looking like the first one but bigger and differnet colors

365 pictures

One of my pictures was published with the prompt:
where are you going?
where Am I going?
where is that bug going?

A turn

As all my african quilts are gone in Libreville Gabon to be exhibited,

I felt like having to change a lot in my life.

Trough some spiritual readings I decided to look back into MYSELF and to express it by the mean of Mandalas. This is the first one.
Enjoy...

time for kids

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Time for kids

Once a year the kids of the municipality have the oppotunity to share the adults's life as to discover all the jobs possibilities. I have been asked to share some basic elements of sewing with them. They went back home knowing how to thread a needle, to make a knot, to sew a button and to sew a stright line. Better than nothing and they went home with a small felt MP3 bag.

Who am I?

One of my quilt which shows that I am a Gemini 2 in one, which one is the best or the worst?

Who am I?

I took this photo in a shop window a few months ago in London.

water carrying

it will not be an UFO

Celles opening

You speak about it during weeks and then the opening day arrives

night market

This was my stand yesterday at one of the summer night markets in Nassogne

Celles Ramble

This exhibition is wellknown for its quality. This year about thirty artists of different fields will exhibit in this small village, one of the most beautiful of Wallonie in Belgium. I will be the only textile artist
You are welcome.
Details on www.parcours-artistes.be

first collage

Inspired by Wen Richmond collage serie I started this small quilt which includes the use of what I learned from the workshop "Drawn to pen and ink" Quilting arts Workshops.
The fabrics are scraps from all the ones I have collected in Africa

Thérèse

After following Linda Matthews's FFMG I did my home work adapting my african style and using the Markal oil painsticks , keeping in my mind the project "for a good cause

Water carrying

The second stage

Water carrying

I am starting a quilt for a poject named "Ca coule de source?" Who can translate it in english? With some belgian and african artists we would like to start a travelling exhibition which should draw people's attention on the problem of water in the world.

This is the first draft from the women transporting water all the day long.

Winky

This is Winky, a friend of mine's dog.

Musical July in Saint Hubert

this photo transfer will be showed on the night market of Nassogne

mamieclaire

another photo transfer of my 11th granchild Tyana

twitter

I have just the Twitter net. Is it another friend on Twitter?

Tina

Another photo transfer done for the night market. She is a friend of mine. She had to stay quiet after a surgery on her foot. So she decided to stat painting and she exhibited during the Nassogne's artists ramble.

sketchbook

The feature from JJ Foley in the Quilting arts Magazine 35 issue inspired me to try her (or his) method. Starting from a photo that I took during an "artistic nude" workshop with Bernard Pajak teacher. I altered it with the computer program.

The black echoing lines are the ones which should be quilted. Since a lot is still to be improved Ii am sure that I will enjoy myself doing other sketches on paper before trying one onto fabric.

batik

During july and august, summertime here in Nassogne, there is a night markt open twice monthly. I will participate exhibiting some small works.

I have done quite a lot of perspectives (thanks to Angela Madden) .

People love that kind of quilts.

I would not say that it is artquilt but as we say in french, it is the everyday bread that feeds the family.

batik

Just another one.

Quevaucamps

There should have been more paint on the cardboard but with a closer view the result is better

Quevaucamps

During Linda Colsh's worshop in Quevaucamps, a student gave me this piece of corrugated cardboard. I painted it with a roller and black diluted acrylic paint.

Nathalie

I am just back from Coxyde at the belgian North sea coast where I met Nathalie.
We knew each other through Quilt University and Dena Crain on-line courses since 2003.
But from a virtual contact she became not only a real person but also I discovered that she is such a nice and creative person.
In Belgium we have a problem. It is quite unbelievable for such a small country that we have to get artquilting contacts with Internet tool. All the small quilting clubs are so traditionnal: chatting, drinking coffee and eating cakes, following allready made patterns, buying expensive pure cottons and ZERO creativity goals
So, I invite all of you to visit her blog http://creativehours.blogspot.com/
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My place

This is the Nanfurnal building. I am living on the ground floor, so it is like having all the garden for me (without lawn mowing).

We still have wildpigs, foxes, stone martens, stags and many visitors.

Welcome and enjoy

stone marten

Do you also have those stone martens living in your environment?

To-night she or he was just enjoying some peanuts on the other side of my door. Last year we had the daily visit of a fox.

I have to say that the building we are living in was supposed to be

a hospital for tuberculosis 40 years ago in the middle of the Ardennes.

I will post a photo of the view that we are enjoying.

rudi's tree

Voici la deuxième de mes photos sélectionnées, elle est publiée ce jour par www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/365/picures

Soul of africa

The suprise of this quilt done for the "Music" exhibition is that I have scanned a CD that was just like any standard CD.

Then it came out with different colors which were matching with the background fabric. Then I had just to print them onto the fabric.

The dancers and the CD are hand applique as well as the quilt

Artistic ramble

During the week end we have organized a ramble in the region of Nassogne.
Different artists will exhibit their works of art: paintings, carvings, drawings, sculptures and of course my arquilts.
My house will be open and your are mostly welcome

The Letter

One of the photos of the opening day of the Letter exhibition in Liège

Music

This will be my participation in the next artistic exhibition.
I call it "african music partition"

french blog

For the ones who would like to know more about me you can visit my french blog http://marieclairartiste.blogspot.com or my web site www.afriquartquilt.be

Artist of the week

From the first of May I will appear on Linda Matthews site http:// www.inspire.creative-textile-and-quilting-arts.com as "artist of the week" If you want to follow me subbscrige to the newsletter

La Lettre

Vandaq doll

As in many african countries people are illiterate, they have to use their own language.
This litlle woven doll (in Senegal) is carried on the back of the young girls who are pubescent, meaning: I am on the market, who will marry me?

telegram

this is made from a real old telegram (letters before internet) printed on fabric from my printer onto cotton and quilted

The Letter

The tittle of this artquilt, done for the Letter exhibitinon, is Angel, like amour, admiration , amitié (friendship),...the letter A

365 pictures

Some of my pictures and prompts are planned to be the prompt of the day on the: 19 april; 17 may; 9 june; 6 july; 8 august; 27 august.
If you want to have a look at http://www.creativity-portal.com/prompts/365/pictures.html
you are most welcome

Celles

This small village is classified as one of the most beautiful villages of Wallonie.
The exhibition took place in the Ermitage Saint Adelin (top right)
Many thanks to Michel Evrard Thoelen ,organizer,and to all his right arms.

Poster

The other artists were Bernard Pajak, Guy Vandervoort and Philippe Blondin photographers.Annette Burnotte calligraphy, Sulévia artistic jewels, Nicolas Rouard sculptor, Pol Ledent, Robert Raskin, Stefan Swolfs, Marie Lefrancq, Simon Romin painters and Carole DeKeijser painter and philosopher

Who am I?

I have the feeling to be 2 persons in one . Whith my right brain giving its instructions seen on my left side, eveything is heavy.I am sad, tired, negative, blind, looking at the past... From my left brain is sprouting my imagination, my creativity, my smile, everything that I like to do.
In my uterus there is the sex pleasure and the children but also the pain.
All my roots are in Africa, I am a belgian white african and it is not easy to find my place here in Nassogne.
Sometimes I can get mad, I could cut one of my ear like a famous man did it before me.
I will carry on trying to find the answer.

expo Quevaucamps

Linda and myself have been invited to participate at the exhibition organized by the Couleur Fil ( color thread) association in september. We will have to work on the words: "step" and "footprint".
I am looking forward to be there again.

Linda Colsh

Here is our great Linda in our small Belgium last week end, teaching different ways of making and using silkscreens with acrylic paint. She showed also how to make and use rubbing stamps, stencils, monopriniting... 2 days very intensive as she gives as much as she can. Thanks Linda

Music exhibition

In may I am invited at an exhibition (painters, sculptors...) on the Music theme at the Galerie Esquisses in Rochefort. The following messages are representing the quilts that will be part of it.

http://galerie-esquisses-rochefort.blogspot.com

bilulus

The lines seem to be dancing following an african music

Musique

It could also be part of the "Musique" exhibition

metropolis detail

Metropolis

I was working on Dena's Crain "Darned quilts" workshop but I coudn't do it the right way because of my fabric that was too thick.
Anyway I will use it for the "Musique" exhibition and it is called Metropolis like the huge Night Club of the region.

Translation of my french blog

All the following messages are a short summary of my http://marieclairartiste.blohspot.com

Burning and distorting

Foil details









Inspiration of the day: synthetic felt distorted with a heat gun, foil, wrapping paper, rope, buttons...anyway a creative and recreative exercise.












Old gold: in this one I played with the heat gun on synthetic fabric, spraypainted and then burned paper, wrapping paper, copper rings bought some time ,somewhere threads, embroideries carved in african fabric, in fact anything that seemed interesting