Ethelda Ellis Erasnus

I was delighted when Juliette Eckel invited me to become part of the Texnet 2 group in 2018. It was a new journey to meet 20 gifted textile artists from all over the world virtually and to interact and learn from them, using Facebook.

I am including 2 of my works for the exhibition that will hopefully launch at the European Patchwork Meeting in Alsace in September as well as 2 of my bigger works and introduce myself.

My theme for our ‘Calendar Exhibition’ is: ‘Dancing through the seasons’. This is February: (15x15cm), when snow is most likely in Ireland. ‘Dance of the Snowflakes’ was inspired by The Nutcracker Ballet by Tchaikovsky.

The month October: ‘Autumn Fairy’ from Cinderella by Prokofiev.

I am inspired by nature and everything beautiful. Working with the medium of textiles is wonderful, versatile and therapeutic. My philosophy is to open people’s eyes to beauty and to inspire others to be creative. I am not a full time artist but use every possible minute to do what I adore: creating artwork.
This is a work that was inspired by the woods around Emo, Co. Laois in the Midlands in Ireland. Paul Whiteley gave me permission to study and use his detailed photographs of red squirrels.

‘Freestate Flamingos’ was inspired by my homeland, South Africa.
My friend Marietjie Ferreira, took numerous photographs of the greater flamingos on their farm in the Freestate, close to where my husband grew up.

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Susanne Häusermann

I am delighted to introduce a tiny part of the Textnet2 project, initiated by Juliette Eckel. We are an international group (Europe, North-America and Australia) of textile artists who have collaborated for two years while living apart and working alone. Many of us have never met each other in person. Our project is based on a 12 months calendar. We are excited to announce that the international Carrefour European Du Patchwork en Alsace takes place in September this year and the Nadelwelt Karlsruhe in May 2022.

it's done! the car is packed and tomorrow I´m leaving for the EPM 2021! In a few days our exhibition will be shown at the EPM and now it is time for me to say thank you to the members of TEXNET 2. Thank you for believing in me and in this ambitious project! I remember very well that at the beginning an artist, who later didn't take part, asked me what if it doesn't work. My answer was: if I don't try, I'll never know ... Some of the invited artists probably didn't believe in the project ... But then we started with 21 artists! The first few months were very exciting and new. So many interesting and so different works were created. It was a wonderful experience to know that all around the world you have been working for the project. Again and again I could see how surprised and touched we all were to discover the work that was shown. To understand what our origins and our artistic background make up for our work was always moving. At the end it was a very spec...

Suze Termaat

Since 2018 I am a member of texnet 2 an international art quilt group and now we finally have our first major exhibition in st.Marie aux mines from 16 to 19 September. We are 21 artists and every month we have made 1 or two pieces of work with the theme of the month we are in at that moment, in the end we made a whole of it. In total we have become 427 works of art. On the left a photo of my large work inspired by the rapeseed fields. To the right the winter months. Sinds 2018 ben ik lid van texnet 2 een internationale art quilt groep nu hebben we dan eindelijk onze eerste grote expositie in st.Marie aux mines van 16 t/m 19 September. We zijn met 21 kunstenaars en hebben elke maand 1 of 2 werkstukken gemaakt met het thema van de maand waar we op dat moment in zitten, uiteindelijk hebben we er een geheel van gemaakt. In totaal hebben we 427 kunstwerken gemaakt met zijn allen. Links een foto van mijn grote werk geïnspireerd op de koolzaadvelden. Rechts de wintermaanden.

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