Use Your Eyes

This is a large (186cm x 174cm) piece inspired by photographs of the only significant building left standing after the Atom-bombing of Hiroshima.  I had been looking at the shadows left by people and objects after the bomb but found this rather to disturbing to pursue.

I spent a brilliant week at West Dean learning from [...]

Hi folks. Sorry to say I have been ridiculously busy all summer as that’s our frantic time of year, (art holiday business). I then forgot entirely about the Shadows theme and woke up in a panic Saturday night. So I’m cheating and submitting an image of a piece of work I made a couple of [...]

When I read what our next theme was to be I was immediately reminded of this photo that I took as part of an assignment on the principles of design for my City and Guilds.
I wanted to make something more abstract so I thought about using different colours. This led me to thinking of the [...]

The subject matter of our 3rd theme has fallen to me and I have been thinking about this long and hard.  As Carla has already said, this is not an easy decision to make.  I had thought about Identity or Water but both have been done before by other textile groups.   Instead I have chosen Shadows as our [...]