About second Sister and my contact details
Hello. I find materials and inspiration from collecting. I love to collect on the beach, in the forest, pretty much anywhere. My pockets always have some treasure in them. The other materials i use in my work are -'ANYTHING'. Yep, that's right, I love to recycle. In fact - I recycle, re-purpose, and up-cycle. These are not new terms, but to me they mean take stuff (which we all have lots of) save it from landfill by giving it a new purpose and re-use it to create something beautiful or useful. With all of the things I make, I teach myself how to do them. I find that the materials I collect and use, suggest to me what I will make. This is how I started to make baskets. Love took me to the West coast of Tasmania in Strahan. Rick and I made our home and family there for ten years. We walked many miles on Ocean Beach, and I collected lots of beach rope that washed up. Because I love collecting, it became a new collection. Now any collector knows that you have to keep making more room for new collections, so I taught myself how to make baskets using beach rope. (Therefore allowing me to collect more!!) And this is how I still work, my collecting leads me onto new projects all the time. All driven by a need to re-use existing materials. I collect materials such as leaves, berries, fruit skins and use these to create my own natural dyes and mordants. I collect silk from op-shops and weave them into baskets and stitch them onto skirts. I felt woolen blankets and jumpers and cut them into toys. I collect beach glass and ceramics and create jewellery.
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Some Photography on this site is by Rick Eaves Photography. Not only my beautiful partner, but a professional photographer too! Find Rick at rickeaves.com. |
This is Flotsam. It was made for the Material girl competition. See below for the poem I wrote to go with it. Flotsam is made from rope collected from beaches around Tasmania and driftwood and sisal string. |
Trio of bags for wearable art exhibition. Made with beach rope, recycled sari silk, bailing twine, feathers and floats.
Sisal string 'hairy' balls dyed with my own natural dyes of apple, eucalyptus, raspberry, blackberry and passionfruit. |
'Flotsam' Getting the balance you nedd to succeed in life is a bit like getting your sea legs. It can be really tough at first, lots of new ideas being thrown at you and all you want to do is lay down. Bit by bit you get more confident in moving about and you start to achieve some goals. Then, it seems, without you noticing, you have them - your sea legs. Trying to balance demands and needs as a woman can make you feel a little wobbly sometimes. A woman's life can be thought of as an ocean voyage. At times we are carefree, kicking close by the waters edge, playing in the shallows. Everything seems achievable and easy. Other times we feel a bit lost, treading water and unsure. Pressures of motherhood, relationships, identity issues and financial burdens can leave us adrift. Sometimes we are in deep. Commited in a loving relationship, weathering the storm of children, running a business, balancing work, love, life and art. The ocean can be dark and stormy and challenge our beliefs. It can also be a place of discovery. A place without boundaries or limits. Mostly the sea will wash us back to the shore, to walk in the tide lines and contemplate, ready again to tackle the big issues.
image www.rickeaves.com
Journey' necklace. Collected beach treasures of glass and ceramic and button on sterling silver necklace from wearable art exhibition. I collect old ceramic plates and cups and old glass bottles which have been broken and then smoothed by the sand and sea. Some of these pieces have taken a journey over many lifetimes. When you wear my necklaces you are continuing the journey.
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Contact me at second Sister in Penguin, Tasmania.
Email me - janine@secondsister.com.au Mobile - 0438018675 Please email me with any questions regarding avaliable colours, postage and for my direct deposit details. Wholesale enquires welcome, please email me for details. You can see me working a couple days a week in Burnie, Tasmania at the Makers Workshop. I work on my baskets there and use many collected and natural materials.
Makers' Workshop. 2 Bass Highway, Burnie. T 03 6430 5831. You can find my work for sale in Tasmania at
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