“Colour of Decay – Blue”, “Colour of Decay –Green”
My inspiration for work for “Changes” exhibition was ‘decay’ and I chose to focus on an old, derelict, industrial building I often pass. I produced two canvasses depicting different features and colour palettes. The pieces abstract its brick, rotting wood, rusting corrugated iron, broken windows, pipes and posts, and use the palettes of blue/grey/brown and green/brown with a rusty orange as the linking complementary colour.
Techniques employed: dyeing, painting, monoprinting and rusting with the resulting fabrics collaged for backgrounds and then extensively free motion quilted.
My inspiration for work for “Changes” exhibition was ‘decay’ and I chose to focus on an old, derelict, industrial building I often pass. I produced two canvasses depicting different features and colour palettes. The pieces abstract its brick, rotting wood, rusting corrugated iron, broken windows, pipes and posts, and use the palettes of blue/grey/brown and green/brown with a rusty orange as the linking complementary colour.
Techniques employed: dyeing, painting, monoprinting and rusting with the resulting fabrics collaged for backgrounds and then extensively free motion quilted.
Hidden Histories, Revealed Remains
For ‘Changes’; Denny Abbey proved an apt subject, as the history and architecture, and the styles and functions, which have changed over a time period of nearly nine centuries, has meant an early religious site occupied at various times by three different monastic orders became a farm and now functions as a Farmland Museum managed by English Heritage. It is an architectural jigsaw of blocked windows, doors and arches where various layers have been hidden or revealed through the passage of time.
Collaged background of different fabrics including cotton, silk, dried teabags and Lutradur, rusted, dyed, painted, melted/burnt, appliquéd and stitched by machine and hand stitch.
For ‘Changes’; Denny Abbey proved an apt subject, as the history and architecture, and the styles and functions, which have changed over a time period of nearly nine centuries, has meant an early religious site occupied at various times by three different monastic orders became a farm and now functions as a Farmland Museum managed by English Heritage. It is an architectural jigsaw of blocked windows, doors and arches where various layers have been hidden or revealed through the passage of time.
Collaged background of different fabrics including cotton, silk, dried teabags and Lutradur, rusted, dyed, painted, melted/burnt, appliquéd and stitched by machine and hand stitch.
