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Friday, January 01, 2010

A Leap Of Faith


Last year was the year when I made my first true leap of faith. When we realised that the future of my husband's employers was a little...well...shaky, I decided to go back into HR. For me, that was a leap of faith. I didn't know if I could cope or not with the demands of paid employment, which was the reason I got (really) ill in the first place, last time round. But needs must when the devil drives, and I spent a joyful five months working in a great place, which is now, sadly, closed. You would have noticed the quiet blog, here, which was a direct result of the Paid Job, and for that, I'm sorry. I missed talking with you all. Now, though, I'm about to take another leap of faith, which is to continue to look for paid employment (anyone looking for a proactive HR Manager?), but to combine it with a simplification of my creative life. I'm coming back to textiles in a focussed way, with a bit of mixed media on the side.

You see, I've got a new toy. She's called Big Bertha, and she's a printer. She's not any old printer, though; she's an Epson 7880 (check her out here). I'm going to be working almost exclusively with images that are derived from photographs, just like the image at the top of the blog, one of the illustrations for the new Evolon book (more of that in a minute). She's too big for my studio, so she lives in the gallery in Dereham, where we'll be offering a range of services for artists and photographers based on BB. Watch this space for more details... but first, I need to master using her on cloth. That starts next week... the gallery may not know what hit them .

And the Evolon book. Yes, I know, I promised it for last year. I failed...but for a good reason (for once). I'm adding two new chapters, one on using evolon and the printer, another on distressing with heat. It will be ready in March; I hope you'll think it's worth the wait.

Oh, it's good to be back. I spent part of this afternoon in the studio...would still be there, but himself has a migraine, and the embellisher makes a lot of noise... I'm half way through working with my first large scale image on Lutradur. It's really exciting!

Finally, I wish you all a Guid New Year... one that is joyful, exciting and creative, just like mine!

10 comments:

Featheronawire Sally Bramald said...

'Bout time!
Happy New Year

Heather said...

A leap of faith indeed - I do hope this new one works for you as well as the first one did. Good luck with Big Bertha, she sounds rather formidable. Happy and succesful New Year.

Anne Huskey-Lockard said...

Marion, good to *hear* your voice! Hope things go well for you---you have had a heck of a year to say the least....same here, though mostly incapacitated from surgery.
the printer sounds wonderful--best of luck with it!

XXOO!!
Anne

Leslie said...

Glad to see you back and Happy Hogmanay!

paintingpam said...

The silver lining will find you!

Helen said...

welcome back :))

Chrissie said...

Hope you have a happy and healthy 2010. And good luck with BB! x

Julie said...

Welcome back Marion. Your printer sounds very exciting! Good luck with your plans for 2010 and Happy New Year.

Pat said...

Wow, that is one formidable lady! I look forward to seeing you putting her through her paces.
PS Welcome back and all the best for the New Year.

Purple Missus said...

Good to see you back Marion and a happy new (and very exciting)year to you too.
Love the piece of work that fronts up this post and look forward to seeing you put Big Bertha through her paces.