Saturday 12th October 2013
Bracelets and braiding: exploring colour.
Friendship bracelets revisited! Using wool, acrylic and cotton threads, mixing and blending colour, choosing fine or chunky and learning my ‘button technique’, you will create beautiful colourful bracelets and necklaces.
For further information about courses contact Susy
© susy orton | wild weaver
Saturday 7th September 2013
Weaving on a small frame loom: create your own wall art.
You will learn basic weaving techniques and use textiles, ribbons, buttons and beads, create your own A4 size wall art. Each workshop focuses on a different blend of materials & techniques, but there will always be overlap and innovation; that is the essence of wild weaving!
Thank you Dublin and all at ‘Being in Action’. It was a joy to be with you as weaver in residence. The energy and care with which you engaged with me fashioning beautiful travel sticks, weaving willow circles and loving my work is very precious. I return to my studio buzzing with ideas. I look forward to developing connections made, making and sending orders and to more opportunities to be weaver in residence.
© susy orton | wild weaver
I am delighted to be showing my work with Viv and Paul Martin and friends at Martin Studios.
Please support all the wonderful artists and crafts people making and showing beautiful hand made items by spending time at Worthing Art/Craft Open House event June 22-23rd 2013.
susy orton | wild weaver
loving craft | loving people
On 20 June I will fly to Dublin to be a ‘maker in residence’ at Psychodrama & Sociodrama Conference 2013
21st – 23rd June 2013, Being in Action, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. I am gathering resources of willow and fibre and much looking forward to being there.
The Conference invites you to bring your richness of being and join with others to explore the creativity of being together in our exploration of Psychodrama, Action Methods and Sociodrama.
We would like to encourage contributions that reflect our contemporary need for mindful action in our therapeutic practice and lives. Living with the many paradoxes of our time reminds us of Moreno’s call to find new or adequate responses to life’s twists and turns.
Venue Information: Dublin City University is a modern dynamic campus three miles from Dublin’s vibrant city centre and a 15 minute drive from Dublin airport. DCU is home to Ireland’s largest Arts Centre
I dedicate this poem by Erika Harris to my mother. She was a gifted artist and sculptor and deeply encouraging of my work. She inspires my work daily. She died on 23rd October 2012.
You are a supreme and generative creator.
You have spent years, and lifetimes, refining the treasures within you.
It is time, now, to cast those treasures outside of you.
What have you been waiting for?
More money, time, support, knowledge?
Activate and release Your Work first,
then, those things you were awaiting
will appear. They will chase you down
and insist that you have and enjoy them.
You have died the death of linear logic.
Your feminine resurrection now summons
you to luscious life, born through your hips and lips.
Will you sway? Will you say? Will you allow
your season of free expression? Will you
add your nectar-fragrance to the air we breathe?
Or will you tuck it away, in an attic, for another time?
Your words, your curves, your underwater nerves,
are begging to surface, to be see, known and heard
by the hard angles, and the soft angels, that indwell
this place we chose to call home. Fluff the pillows,
set loose the power, that burns between your breasts.
That heat, that light, is not for your protective sleep.
It is for the risk of daily dawn. Mother, daughter,
sister, lover, matriarch, queen, goddess, that You Are.
Wait? I think not. Those days have set.
Would you think the sun or moon “polite” if they withheld
their luminosity? You are no less, and no different,
from those icons in the sky. And the world will remain in disarray
unless and until we stop this waiting. And, instead, start beaming
the beauty and wisdom and comfort and harmony that is ours to beam.
sue orton | gathering threads 