Textiles
Wild Tapestries
These paintings in textile which I have been making for several years, encapsulate my enduring love not just for art, but for textile design and craftmanship
In a slow, meditative process in the studio, layer upon layer of fabrics -some precious, some salvage- are placed on top of one another to create fields of colour; they are then sewn into rows, or other geometric forms and subsequently cut with a surgeon’s scalpel and subjected to a washing process which draws out the colours and textures from underneath. The results can be surprising, unpredictable.
The most recent works have paintings incorporated.
Wild Bouquet
Bouquets of wildflowers are woven as a jacquard pattern onto a duvet, cushions, blanket, and small rug. The romanticism of this theme is offset by a colour scheme which is predominantly in dark and light grays. The gray scheme is lifted by random lines of colour which create an effect of layering. On the rug bright velvet flowers sit in relief on the fabric reinforcing this layered effect.