Shaun the sheep and woven friends
We attended the opening of a quilting and basket making exhibition on Saturday at the Straithnairn Gallery. For reasons that I didn't identify the basket makers had also decided that each exhibitor would also weave a sheep!
Our favourite was this form of the TV star Shaun the sheep. (Incidentally I was having trouble remembering how to spell the name: Shawn and Sean were my picks, but both were incorrect. Then daylight dawned about the genesis of the name - Shorn!)
On asking the artist (our friend, Jean Egan) about the materials the white areas are bobble wool and the black is draught excluder! See this close up!
There were a range of other very clever examples using all sorts of media.
My second favourite work is left until last because it simply is not a sheep. It does remind me however of the dingoes of Lin Onus.
Our favourite was this form of the TV star Shaun the sheep. (Incidentally I was having trouble remembering how to spell the name: Shawn and Sean were my picks, but both were incorrect. Then daylight dawned about the genesis of the name - Shorn!)
On asking the artist (our friend, Jean Egan) about the materials the white areas are bobble wool and the black is draught excluder! See this close up!
There were a range of other very clever examples using all sorts of media.
My second favourite work is left until last because it simply is not a sheep. It does remind me however of the dingoes of Lin Onus.
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