Workshop Four: 20th – 22nd April 2012
Johnnene Maddison
Thread Drawings with Aquabond
- Olive Tree: Johnnen Maddison
Whether you are silly or serious, Aquabond is the right material for creating unusual sketches which artist Johnnene Maddison calls Thread Drawings. Using your own sketches, tiny snippets of fabric andfree motion machine sewing, unique pictures can be
created that appear to float away from the canvas on which they are applied. Your drawings may be whimsical, colourful and childlike or detailed landscapes, seascapes or interiors. Composition, colour placement and line will be discussed as well as techniques for mounting your finished pieces on canvas. Students will learn several practical applications for using Aquabond as a warm up exercise before starting the thread drawings. Knowledge of free motion machine stitching is required.
Johnnene Maddison earned a BFA from Pratt Institute in New York City, an MA in
Art Education from the University of Michigan and a Teaching Certificate from Althouse College in London, Ontario. She has been teaching fibre art courses and watercolour painting in the US and Canada for 35 years. Johnnene has had her work published in art magazines in Canada, the United States, England and Japan. She has had one-person exhibitions in major galleries and museums in Canada and the US. Half of her traveling show, Over Here: Women, Work and WWII was purchased by The Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. Johnnene received a Trillium Grant to publish a catalogue about her exhibition. She is currently working on a project about loss. Johnnene is a founding member of The National Museum of Women In The Arts in Washington DC. She is also a member
of The Canadian Embroiderers’ Guild, London and Connections Fibre artists.
Web:
connectionsfibreartists.com/Artists/JohnneneMaddison/JohnneneMaddison.htm
