Outstanding Country Artist Award

On Sunday, Lis Mertens received the Country Artist Award at the Gundaroo Bush Festival Telstra Art Show. 

The award went to the most outstanding country artist who lives in the Southern Tablelands shires, including the ACT.

"Making Waves" is one of three pieces currently showing in the Group Exhibition which will run from November 6th 2008 - January 31st 2009 at Studio Altenburg, Wallace Street, Braidwood, NSW.

The two exhibition gallery rooms at Studio Altenburg will be open to the public showing artworks from many artists all over Australia. 

Gatherers

Taking "Goodnight in the gully where the white gums grow" by printmaker, Jessie Traill, Australia 1881-1967, as a starting point, Lis has begun a series of images using merino sliver and spun yarn to make an art quilt celebrating "Woman". " Gatherers" attempts to reflect the Australian landscape and the various ways in which women "gather" from it: be it tranquility, it's sheer natural beauty of pattern and colour or it's seeds which can both literally and metaphorically be sown to continue to reproduce in diverse manifestations.

Currently on display at Studio Altenburg,Wallace Street, Braidwood is a selection of hats and scarves, a wrap and a vest inspired by time spent in Central Australia this past winter. The pieces reflect the colours and warmth of the landscape and incorporate natural lines and patterns of the environment.

Exhibition at Birdhouse, Braidwood, 2006

"Winter Threads" was an exhibition of contemporary

textiles by Lis Mertens, Feltmaker, Martine Peters,

Weaver and Lucie Verhelst, who conceives her works

of paper and fabric in three-dimensional space.

For this show, Lis produced "hats and wraps and a skirt

which are sculptural in conception but designed with a 

clear concept of body shape so that they are eminently 

wearable. " (Kerry-Anne Cousins, Canberra Times,

Monday July 3, 2006.)

The show was opened by Mongarlowe Weaver, Sandra Von 

Scheidern.

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Lyons and Ross wedding

Beth Lyons and Jonathon Ross were married in the garden of Beth's parents' home at Clyde St., Mongarlowe on Saturday October 18th.

Lis Mertens created the wedding shawl from fine silk and merino wool.

She made prefelts and dyed them. Lis prefelted individual flowers which were laid out on the silk and handfelted. To complete the shawl Lis handstitched the sepals and gathered the shawl into an elegant bridal train.