Sandie Maher
I have been a member of One Step On since its inception, having completed Creative Embroidery City and Guilds Part 1 at Gawthorp and continued Part 2 at Skipton finishing in 1997. During that time I developed an interest in Charles Rennie Mackintosh and used his work for my research project. I also love the work of his wife, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and especially her gesso panels. I go to Glasgow most years to see all the Mackintosh sites. The music room in the House for an Art Lover is my favourite. I am a member of The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society and attend meetings in the North West.
I have been on several courses with Ray Slater making cloth dolls. I have used faces as a theme and continue to experiment and develop the most satisfactory way of making them as realistic as possible. My work has included felt or silk paper backgrounds. I especially like using water soluble fabric for making 3D items.
I have completed City and Guilds Stumpwork 2 at Eccles Farm and am a member of The Embroiderers’ Guild. Some of my work has been published in the book "Charles Rennie Mackintosh Inspirations" by Dorothy Wood.
Title: Calico Hanging
Materials/Techniques: 6” squares on calico with heart motifs,
machine embroidery with beads
Size:15 x 96.5cm
Above: Handmade Box
Materials/Techniques:Handmade fabric box with felt beaded top.
Size: 20 x 12.5 x 6.5cm
Left: Chinese Lamp Girl
Materials/Techniques: Cloth doll, with beaded clothing
Height: 58.5cm
Materials/Techniques ;Layers of fabric and some burnt back, machine embroidery and beads on a painted and beaded background
Size:5.5 x 59.5cm
Materials/Techniques: Velvet dyed and printed, chiffon applied and heated, stitched and stumpwork flowers
Size: 57 x 66cm
Size: 40 x 67cm
Materials:Screen printed background with
kantha embroidery and beads
Above: Fairies’ Garden
Size: 50 x 40cm
Materials: cotton velvet, organza, paint, sweet papers with machine embroidery
Right: Mackintosh's Garden
Size: 12 x 9 ins
Materials/technique:
Machine embroidery on water soluble fabric
Source: Charles Rennie Mackintosh's watercolour drawings of flowers.
Title: Art is the Flower
Size: Overall, 9ins high x 8ins wide
Materials: Bag - silk dupion with quilting.
Fritillaries - stumpwork, made from woven shapes,
wired and machined on to water soluble leaves.
Source: The flower drawings of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Title: Life is the Green Leaf
Size: Overall, 9ins high x 8ins wide
Materials: Bag - silk dupion with quilting. Anemones - needlelace, bonded fabric and trapped angelina.
Source: The flower drawings of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.