Bradford- Week one..

I was hugely inspired by the standard of work at this year’s Degree Show, one particular student that stood out for me was weaver Camilla Thomas. I found that there were many things that we had in common, both her work and her life style too. I’m inspired to follow her lead for my own projects, such as her particular colour palette choices, yarn choices and adding in extra ends to her warp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As I have focused on colour, tones and textures within my work, the artists that I have closely selected share the same focus. Wendy Puerto is my inspiration throughout the Bradford Brief. Below are my five favourite images of her work.

 

The first week back after a long Summer break and I was eager to be back at the loom but this came with having to make some very quick and important decisions. As I was looking through my Summer work, in order to continue with the brief, without even realising I found some similarities between Wendy Puerto’s style and my own. 

With Lesley’s specific guidance after my first tutorial, I selected a tonal colour palette of cream, baby blue and peppermint green - all lambswool. I needed to create the chunkiness for my samples to fit the right context to my work.

 

With relation to my drawing work, I started off with my Summer project and picked the areas that were the strongest to develop into this brief. Selecting a lively colour palette, I was able to produce a number of compositional drawings for the look of my woven designs. At this point I decided to closely focus on three main structures for my weaving - plain, satin and sateen - carefully combining them all together to create finished pieces tailored for the interior market.

The reason I chose these particular structures is because I wanted bold, strong and eye catching sampling, the same type of colour explosion as I have in my photographs.