Latest Posts by tamembro - Page 2
and the day goes.
hand embroidered on linen
— Tamembro (2018)
and the day goes.
Reflections - embroidery work
Reflections
Hand embroidered with stranded cotton threads on a linen background, 18.8cm x 18cm
The texture study inspired by Claude Monet's brushstrokes, Fields in Spring (1887)
— Tamembro
Living The Green Dream - embroidery work
Living the Green Dream (2018 - 2020)
Hand embroidered with stranded cottons on a raw canvas, diameter 26cm / 10"
— Tamembro
... people come to the sea, and see nothing but salt water, sharks and fishes. They say, “Where is this pearl others speak about? Perhaps there is no pearl.” How can the pearl be gained merely by looking at the sea? Even if they measured out the sea, cup by cup, a hundred thousand times, they would never find the pearl. A diver is needed to discover that pearl, and not just any diver, but a diver who is both fortunate and nimble. Humanity’s sciences and arts are like measuring the ocean with a cup. To find the pearl calls for something else.
📖 Discourses of Rumi: Fihi Ma Fihi by Jalal al-Din Rumi. Translated by A. J. Arberry (Ames, Iowa: Omphaloskepsis, 2000)
'Young woman sitting under a tree'
Hand embroidered with stranded cottons on a linen background and stretched over mount board, measures: 16.5cm x 11.5cm
One available from my shop:
— Tamembro
Silently she is with her bruised soul, asleep in oblivion. She just so often want to reach out, grab her face and whisper ever so delicately: you are loved.
Hand embroidered with stranded cottons, coffee on a linen background.
— Tamembro
The Leaves Speak
Leaves monoprint, hand-stitched on used tea bag
(August 2019)
— Tamembro
'Bright and dark'
'A tiny house in the middle of a lake'
Acrylic paint on gesso, linen patches and paper: 10.5 x 14.8 cm
From the 'Water' painting series (March 2020)
— Tamembro
Everything in nature is changing, and so is your story. Acceptance doesn’t mean this is how it’s going to end. It’s an acknowledgement that this is where it begins. We are all works in progress. To be alive is to evolve. You can play an active role in that evolution, but first you need to recognise that it is happening.
📖 'Wabi Sabi' : Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life (2018) by Beth Kempton
.....
Just looking / and considering / how one thing can change in relation with another / how that feels / how colour looks / and feels / how we experience colour / how it is a very personal thing / that experience.
--------------------
Acrylic paint on gesso, linen patches and paper: 10.5 x 14.8 cm
From the 'Movement' painting series (May 2019)
— Tamembro
'A stream running through a misty forest'
A painting study from reference
Acrylic paint on gesso, linen patches and paper: 10.5 x 14.8 cm
From the 'Water' painting series (March 2020)
— Tamembro
'Misty fog and the smell of pine trees'
Graphite pencil on sketchbook
------------------------
(25 March 2020)
📍Samigaluh, Kulon Progo — a nostalgia trip for my parents.
(July 2019)
'River flows in you'
Watercolor, monoprint, hand-stitched on used tea bag
'A red fox observes a young bear and a pair of barn owls flying above them'
Hand embroidery on linen
make objects that talk — and then listen to them
Sometimes you need to scan the forest, sometimes you need to touch a single tree — if you can't apprehend both, you'll never entirely comprehend either. To see things is to enhance your sense of wonder both for the singular pattern of your own experience, and for the meta-patterns that shape all experience. All this suggests a useful working approach to making art: notice the objects you notice. (e.g. Read that sentence again.) Or put another way: make objects that talk — and then listen to them.
📖 'Art & Fear' : Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking (1993) by David Bayles & Ted Orland
1 Dec 2019
Remember to think of your emotions like the ocean. Feelings come in waves: some waves may be stronger than others, but they all will pass.
"Riding the Wave"
(my father recorded me on video 😄)
Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.
📖 'Hear the Wind Song', Haruki Murakami
---------------------------------
"Message in a bottle"
Hand-stitched on used tea bag
Words by Charlie Mackesy
'Connection'
11 September 2018 A birthday present for my friend.
'Wild' We need the tonic of wildness... at the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature. (Henry David Thoreau)
'In the middle | |'
monoprint drawings, acrylic paint, hand-stitched on paper.
'Perfectly imperfect' a visual journal ; monoprint drawings with acrylic-ink wash.
“swimming softly in silence”
a visual journal (12 August 2018)
“Whisper the Words”
a visual journal (7 August 2018)
“Woman and Tree Branches”
A mixed media figure - combining hand embroidery on linen using cotton threads with various papers and acrylic paint. Measures: 21cm x 24.7cm
“Woman and her Chandelier”
A mixed media figure - combining hand embroidery on linen using cotton threads with various papers and acrylic paint. Measures: 21,1 x 24,7 cm
“Man and a Candle”
A mixed media figure - combining hand embroidery on linen using cotton threads with various papers and acrylic paint. Measures: 21,1 x 24,7 cm
