CONTEMPORARY CRAFT RETREAT

Gill Scott ( Jill with a "G") is a Polymer Clay artist specialising in beads, jewellery and pens.

Gill has always been involved in creativity all her life, from painting, sewing, cake decorating, beading, silver smithing, macrame etc.

Since discovering Polymer Clay approximately 9 years ago, she has found a medium that she is passionate about because of its endless possibilities.

Gill has been a teacher for most of her life, and during more recent years, has taught polymer Clay techniques and pens across Australia.

You can find Gill's work on the following socials.....

instagram.com/clayladydownunder/

facebook.com/clayladydownunder

facebook.com/penladydownunder

etsy.com/au/people/gillscott

www.clayladydownunder.com.au

www.etsy.com.au/shop/ClayLadyDownUnder

Janice has been creating Art Dolls and sculptures for several years at her previous Victorian studio and most recently in her new studio "STONECREST CREATIONS" at Murrumbateman just north of Canberra. Her work has been featured in several National and International Craft and Art magazines. Over the years Janice has worked with all sorts of mediums, including Paverpol, Apoxie Sculpt, Makins Clay and Polymer Clay to name a few, however recently Pal Tiya and ceramic Clay have been favoured.

Over the past couple of years "Gourd Art" has started to feature and been included in her designs. Gourd Art is becoming popular in Australia and Pyrography, (wood burning), is an enjoyable and satisfying form of art. "It is important to know how to prepare and use the gourd" Janice says.

Janice feels very humbled to be invited again to join all these talented ladies at the Contemporary Craft Retreat, Canberra. It is probably the highlight of my craft year to be able to teach and also learn, surrounded by so many talented people.... "it is wonderful and such fun"!!

A Certified Instructor for Paverpol,  a Gold Seal member of NODAAA and also the CCIP (Contemporary Clay Instructor Program).

Being self- taught,  the minimal training leaves her free to approach clay sculpting with no preconceptions as to how it ought to be used. Ignorance can be genuinely constructive, particularly in a medium as adaptable as clay.

Her tutorials and amazing work have featured in multiple publications including the Australian Doll and Bear News and Dolls Bears and Collectables, Australian Beading Magazine and the USA Publication Polymer Café, Mixed Media & Steampunk, plus Passion for Polymer magazine.
 Lex is one of 3 Aussies published in the Prestigious Polymer Journeys Book 2019

Website:  www.originalartdollsbylex.com

FACEBOOK:   https://www.facebook.com/Sculptural-Emanations-280399525504485/

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Arts and Crafts have always been a passion of mine, for as long as I can remember, but I lost touch with it until the late 1990's where I re-established my love of all things crafty as a form of therapy. 

I quit the IT industry and established my Craft and Wedding Stationary business. I also taught within the Mental Health Industry, teaching various crafts as therapy to help patients find a sense of self gain after illness or major personal trauma.

Working with mixed media I find inspiration in everything I see and do. 

Some of my favourite mediums are Friendly Plastic, Angelina Fibres and Tyvek.

I have dabbled in Jewellery making and cards, also making mirrors, photo frames and Funky Wonky clocks.

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Pam is creative; she constantly works with her mediums to produce innovative work. She is a mixed media artist and jewellery designer using metal and polymer clays. She is interested in promoting culture and creative pursuits and also sharing her vast knowledge and experience with her students.  

Pam, a former high school art teacher and Art Lecturer at TAFE College, helped in the development of the national certification program, the CCIP or Contemporary Clay Instructor Program and is a Senior Instructor and a Precious Metal Clay Level 1 Artisan.  Her work has been published extensively in Quilting Arts & Australian Beading Magazines, Polyformer, Encyclopaedia of Polymer Clay Techniques by Sue Heaser, Mixed Metal Jewelry and The Handbook of Metal Clay, Textures and Forms by Hadar Jacobson and Textiles Now by Drusilla Cole.

Bunbury, WA 6230

Australia

I am a West Australian based, mixed media artist, sculptor and teacher who has been creating since I was a child. My desire to create and my inspiration has always been from the visual way I see the world I live in.

My background training is a combination of makeup artistry, clothing design, dance teacher and many and varied arts practices both taught and self-taught. I completed most of my initial training while living in Sydney in the late 80’s but have always kept on learning and stretching myself over the years. Teaching others also rewards me with lots of learning given back to me from my students!

Enjoying the process of making art is of uppermost importance to me - the bonus is the positive response my work has on others. My sculpting, textile and painting practices allow me the freedom to create without boundaries and the opportunity to use all those little things I have collected over the years! I strongly encourage my students to reuse and recycle where they can and base most of my Art around this principle. With a few tools and some clay, and lots of practice, you can make almost anything!

The last 15 years I have been travelling to the US and around Australia to teach workshops. I find the mixed media world is such a happy place to be for a tactile person. Colour is paramount to my work and the same basic art principles transcend all mediums, making my journey so much richer as my practices are combined together.

I hope that the passion for what I do can inspire others to follow their own creative journey...and if I can do that, then I have achieved something worthwhile!

EMAIL: Lindamisa.art@gmail.com

            www.tact-ilse.blogspot.com

Lara lives in Northern Germany. She has been a familiar face at the CCR many times. After thirty plus years of teaching Crafting, she is currently working on pursuing more structured skills to finally decide on what she wants to be when she (finally) grows up.

She was born in New Zealand grew up in Canberra and will return home to live with a menagerie of pets and boys in the Macedon Ranges, which is very similar in climate to what she calls Home.  

Lara has been involved with the Arts and Crafts movement at some level for most of her life, as she grew up the youngest member of an actively creative family and worked for 13 years in the family business where porcelain doll making and other associated crafts were taught. During that time Lara was lucky enough to have had exposure to several excellent sculpting teachers, which is her preferred method of expression and also travelled to the US to study antique doll conservation and restoration.

In early 2014 Lara returned to the US and completed two Metal Clay accreditation programs.

2015 was a particularly exciting year for Lara as she attended the Borneo International Bead Conference to lecture and run polymer clay workshops.  Sarawak, Borneo, is one of the most fascinating places that she has ever visited and there she met many interesting historians and archaeologists who have kindled her interest in looking at the bead as an object with much more significance than being purely decorative.

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