Research..

I started to look into colourful surfaces, layering and I wanted to find colour in places other than nature. As a starter I researched ‘natural surfaces' this provided very little inspiration but took me through images of ‘colourful surfaces’ to images of ‘colourful rust’ which was much more interesting, this was where the ideas then began to form.

For my previous unit, towards the end I had started brushing and teasing to better blend the fibres, plus a little work on the embellisher. I loved the way that the colours ‘bled’ into each other and weren't as distinct. I came across the ‘colourful rust’ images and loved the way that that the rust had taken over and bled into other colours. I’d previously focused heavily on ‘natural light’ and how the light changes, reflects, colours and brightens what we see around us and I wanted to attempt to recreate that light impact in my work as well as looking closely at surfaces too.

 

I like to weave my cloth but not have that as the finished product, I like to embellish the finished article and this time I wanted to go off track slightly and experiment with a number of different materials such as flocking and foiling that would help me unpick qualities from much of my primary and secondary research. I began to research current weavers and found that Margo Selby and Wallace and Sewell were focused on structured weave.

I kept digging and came across Ptolemy Mann whose work is all about the colour, her choice of vibrant colours bleeding into one another are something I didn't only fall in love with but saw similar qualities within my own work. I think the bands of colour act like a double cloth which is why I wanted to try something different, something I hadn't tried before, extra warp, this would allow me to try out lots of different structures and processes to add variety into my portfolio. This has applied to much of practice in Unit X.