I really like the effect of the little dotty lined one on the right edge, but though done with a Sharpie pen, and ‘permanent’ such lines from these pens do bleed over time and also develop a sort of yellow stain around them on some fabrics. This is to capture an idea only – more experimentation needed!
I’m sorry readers – somehow, by correcting the photo of my quilt which I discovered had become squashed down to something unrecognisable (I was looking for something else nearby) the correction has come up as a new post! No matter, if you didn’t read it last year, it all bears repeating. The point I make is not who first devised the improvisational method of piecing, though this is relevant, but, that taking a widely practised technique it is perfectly possible for two artists on different sides of the world to have the same idea and come up with something very similar.
“Bushfire 4” 1999, 150cm x 200cm
Scott Murkin, no information to hand at time of writing.
I put up these two quilts to make the point about which I wrote to a member of Quiltart list this morning, which said in part: “….you referred to ‘Scott Murkin’s technique’, and I thought “Hmmm, wonder what that is….” (I don’t get the popular quilt magazines and books these days so its possible to be out of touch with the latest) Anyway, it turns out it is freehand or improvisational piecing, anyway! And when I went online to see images of Scott’s work, there was at least one quilt there that looked like an adaptation and re-arrangement of blocks from one of my own bushfire quilts ” – pictured above. Of course, it isn’t a copy, its just that using similar colours and similar technique produces inevitably similar appearance
Paula asked where she could see the rest of the series, and in a word or two, some cannot be seen until they make an exhibition 🙂 but this one’s new home has been determined- Bungle Bungles #2 is about 30cm square.
This next one appeared in an exhibition ‘Kimberley Dreaming’ in Australia earlier this year, and so it was named “Dreamtracks” – about 30cm sq.
And below is the most recent, already in place on our dining room wall – Purnululu #8 , 2.25m x 90cm They are all in the same series, but since I learned that purnululu means ‘sandstone’ the more recent ones have that title – the aboriginal word is so much more elegant.
I’m happy to announce this recent work, Purnululu #7 has been accepted into SAQA’s My Corner Of The World exhibition, opening in Ontario, Canada, May 21st next. 
It’s not the latest, but one of the more important ones of the Bungle Bungles series, and I’m pleased someone thought it as good a fit to this exhibition as I did.
