Hafodunos Project – updated with new images

Our project for 2012 is based on Hafodunos.

Hafodunos is a Grade 1 listed Victorian Gothic house in Llangernyw which the owners are currently working to restore.

The first finished piece by Pauline Foster, inspired by the fire of 2004, is felted with embroidery

Susanne Owen – work in progress It features 3D wire and fabrics with embroidery and beads. There is more to come later, including some inhabitants. It was inspired by idea of a cold pear house.

Di Fenn – based on windows and fire. Hand dyed fabric with hand embroidery.

Ronny White – based on iron work worked in felt

Di’ Fenn – hand dyed fabric with fragments of tatted hearts on an architectural patterned background

detail of Di’s

further detail

Chris Jones – computer manipulated image printed onto fabric and machine stitched

Alison Corfield – based on broken window panes. is made from etched acrylic, fabric, machine embroidery and monoprinting.

Mary Sotheran – piece showing the skies above Hafodunos

Mary Sotheran’s

Mary Sotheran’s

Mary Sotheran – based on one of the carved stone columns, is hand embroidered

Di Fenn – based on positive / negative iron work shapes made in felt on a charcoal patterned background

Detail of Di’s piece

close up

Susanne Owen – landscape in felt showing the gate into the walled garden from the woods

Chris Jones – based on Venus kissing cupid

Chris Jones – computer manipulated image with machine embroidery

Alison Corfield – based on a window at Hafodunos with views of rubble and debris within the house. Looking right through the house is a splash of light.

Moya McCarthy – ‘Outside looking in – inside looking out’

Moya McCarthy – Breast Cancer Cells -Machine embroidery

Moya  McCarthy – Ginko Leaves – Cyanaotype with machine embroidery

Moya McCarthy – Margaret Sandbach – Cyanotype

Jane Jenkins – Handstitched with words from one of Margaret Sandbach’s poems, based on the garden at Hafodunos.

Pauline Foster –
based on a window at Hafodunos with inserts of related images

Pauline Foster

detail

Chris Jones

Moya McCarthy

Chris Jones

detail

Ronalda White – a christening dress based on the death of Margaret Sandbach’s baby, which was referred to in a poem which contained the lines
‘When they laid thee in the dust, I thought my heart would break’

Detail showing the words on the hem

Marbles

Alison Corfield’s
Hafodunos Greenhouse

Di Fenn’s Hafodunas Sketchbook based on Margaret’s Garden

Di Fenn’s

Di Fenn’s

Di Fenn’s