I came across the weaver/artist Andrea Donnelly in Selvedge Magazine. I love the way her work is about the technical processes of weave and dying but they are also beautiful pieces of art.
She creates a range of scarves, branded Little Fools, which are woven and dyed by hand using luxury yarns. She uses an Ikat process to create the different colour effects, which is something I have enjoyed using very much within my own work.
She also trained as a fine artist which shows in her other work where she puts imagery on to woven cloth. At first it seemed like she used an Ikat technique for this too but this is not the case. For her pieces of artwork she weave a plain fabric and paints the image on top of this while the warp is still attached to the loom. Once dried and fixed she then carefully deconstructs the weave back in to it’s original warp and weft before reweaving it back together. Sometime she uses entirely different images to put back together and other times she used this technique to create a mirror image, this is shown in her work looking at ink blots.
She also studied Psychology and her strong interest in how the mind works shows strongly throughout her art.
To understand her processes more, have a look at her video: http://vimeo.com/49450900
