I was born into a family of makers; builders, ships carpenter, a collarmaker, a potter, specialist teachers, manufacturers and the self-employed.
\nFamily is enormously important to me, both ancestors and current.
\nContributing to my chosen communities has been a very worthwhile connection.<\/p>\n
Working on art, making, and design, in whatever form it takes is innate.
\nI am very much a space maker\/decorator\/environment changer.
\nCreatively enhancing my immediate environment is an ever present preoccupation.
\nConstant learning is a given.<\/p>\n
Textiles has always been my ease, my interest.
\nHistorical pictorial quilts and primitive scrap quilts piqued my interest in quilt-making. Designing and making quilts for my family and home eventually set me on a career path.<\/p>\n
Stargazey Quilts patterns, books for C&T and fabric design for Marcus Brothers are what I am best known for. I spent many wonderful years traveling the world – teaching, promoting, and meeting wonderful people.<\/p>\n
When lugging my suitcases lost its appeal I returned to a quieter life of teaching in my studio. \u2028Many of my students grew with me and eventually became part of the memorable Salvage\/Selvedge<\/a> Community project. Since then I have worked on bringing WAFTA’s twentyONE+<\/a> juried exhibition to life.<\/p>\n This blog is about the next phase of my life – living quietly in Perth, Western Australia with my growing family. I was born into a family of makers; builders, ships carpenter, a collarmaker, a potter, specialist teachers, manufacturers and the self-employed. Family is enormously important to me, both ancestors and current. Contributing to my chosen communities has been a very worthwhile connection. Working on art, making, and design, in whatever form it takes is innate. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_s2mail":"","spay_email":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3626,"href":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions\/3626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNow is time to press refresh.
\nTime to produce to a new body of work.
\nAll the while I’ll be looking back on who I am and where I have come from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"