These are a selection of drawing, based around the theme of corrosion. I found I had lots of drawings which were not very exciting. Placing them together and photographing them allowed me to easily play with contrasting the textures, as well as layering and light. This brought the drawings to life, made them much more interesting and useful for my weaving.
This collection of woven fabrics is based on my visual drawings of corrosion. They are also inspired by Japanese weaving. They are an exploration of light, the way it passes through the fabric or reflects off the surface.
Today I had a really inspiring tutorial, looking through my sketchbook I realised that these stripes could be my weaving. My tutor showed me how I could create more stripes and checks by taking photographs with a slow shutter speed and manipulating them in Photoshop.
These stripes below were created in Photoshop from my own photographs of rust. It enables me to extract the colour and explore proportions and combinations. These are also useful for designing warps.
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These are a selection of photographs I have taken in Norwich for my final uni project on rust. I wasn’t sure how much rust I would find around the city. While walking to places I decided to take new routes and found some exciting rust. I am interested in how the surfaces decay and reveal the layers beneath, and the changing colours as it erodes away.
The images of the work below are large-scale, rubber moulded pieces were made in the 1970s. He is obsessed with creating imperfect work, embellishing in the detail observes. The moulds are taken from everyday objects, everything from walls to socks. I find these works intriguing, they do not appear like rubber, the imperfections he has tried to hard to create make the work beautiful. My current work is inspired be decay and rust, this is a new approach.
These are two paintings by Peter Krauskopf. He uses a broad brush or palette knife to create large areas of colour. His paintings consist of an old picture which has been discarded, and over paints them to produce something new. Using layers he managed to bring together the old and the new. I like these painting because of their metallic, colourfull and dense look to them.
In my own work I am interested in layering yarns, bringing together the traditional technique of hand weaving with contemporary materials.
