textiles

Overlooking Evening Wearable art garment with painted backdrop 1983. Purple Fortuny pleated silk dress wearable art, garment, dress of jap silk, jacket of silk organza, layers of procion dyes, Fortuny pleated, beaded hems. When not worn, these garments hung with their architectural background paintings, acrylics on canvas. The Temple series was created as painting first […]

Perfumed Garden Wearable art garment with painted backdrop 1983. Silk shantung sheath dress with boned bodice featuring machine embroidery. Tiered layers are silk organza with layers of procion dyes and beaded hems. The backdrop is painted and stitched onto heavy interfacing & hung from painted wood. Goldsmiths College Embroidery Textiles, department. Stolen from Sechelt Sunshine

White Refuge Fortuny-pleated wearable art silk dress, backdrop of acrylic paint on canvas Paula Seifred O’Brien textile artist 1983 The Fortuny-pleated white shaft of silk crepe hung before the 2 columns, painted in acrylics on canvas. The dress had a heavily machine embroidered organza yoke & beaded hem. These temple series garments were stolen at

Little Palace Love Affair Wearable art garment with painted backdrop Goldsmiths College Textiles Department 1983 Dress of dyed silk organza with surface design embellishment and machine embroidery. Background of acrylics painted on heavy interfacing hanging from wood. Inspired by the Palace of Knossos in Crete, Greece. This garment was the only one of its series

. Floating Flowers 11.5 x 23 inches Innovative and original art needlepoint images with decorated wooden frames. I did many in this series when my kids were small and we were rambling over several countries and continents for a few years, which made attacking anything larger much too difficult. The wooden frames painted with acrylics

Embossed & gilded Polyform clay jewelry Pavelka Design as a business began in 1994 with handmade jewelry made of pieces of press-molded polyform clay, gilded, with drop beads. The qualities of polyform clay make them lightweight and practically unbreakable, a far cry from porcelain. These pieces had an antique look rather like ancient seals. These