My Body of Work..

My first piece is influenced by Ptolemy Mann and inspired by a secondary image of flaking rust in bold colours of orange, turquoise and purple that become caused by naturally accruing causes, by accident the colours are merged together to create many colour opportunities for my work. I've used direct dye on the cotton yarn - involving powder colour combinations to make bespoke colours. By leaving the yarn in the dye bath longer I achieved a deeper richer colour that I decided to vary throughout my warp.

For the second piece I included highlights of the previous warp and body of work, but instead of focusing on rust and cracked surfaces this time I moved my practice forward by looking at a different type of surface, my second project of Unit X was highly influenced at cracked surfaces using my own photographs of peeling layers of paint and paths I walk of a day to day basis. Taking inspiration from Welter Seven Star's photography and textures from an old wooden sea boat in teal, blue, white and deep orange- red allowed me to make a decision for the type of woollen warp I would design next.This time I used direct dye on worsted wool.

 

 

Finally for the third section I wanted to look further again into more kinds of surfaces, looking back on the first warp from Unit X, the final sample I designed from that reminded me of something very bright, bold and vibrant like culture, one in particular more than the rest was Morocco. I was inspired by the astonishing colour combinations and patterns in moroccan tiles and flooring. The geometric patterns on the flooring can also be seen in rusted metal railings along the seafront in my home town, the very same photographs I took as inspiration of rust, I found it very interesting that even when splitting my projects up yet still basing them under the same title they all still had much in common and all relate back to the same thing.

 

For my final ever collection and degree show proposal I will use many techniques covered this year to inspire my final pieces. I was planning on using acid dyes which I’ve used before when piece dying - this dye is more suitable to thinner yarns such as cotton, silk and viscose the three main choices of yarn for my final weave designs.