Prize for the Ball

I had been making and with the local Ball coming up I thought I would donate a couple of weavings, it felt good to give two pieces I had made, for the raffle and know two new owners would get a hand made created in enjoyment, using local wool yarns.

The above has been won by my friend which was funny result, but a very happy person.

I have woven two like the above but they are different slightly due to colour used in weft. one has been won and to which I was honoured to have say will be worn with admiration, the other I have given to Stephen as he was first pulled out but as he is on the team to the ball, redraw, so he received the other one which he's wearing around the house as proud as punch.

Moments are Out, Even is Uneven

 

I have been making since the end part of Dec 2013 on a number of small weavings that would in a moment create an image in my mind. It then moved to the small looms and 4 selvedge method of weaving Tapestry. Colour seemed to answer itself almost with myself viewing these two colours sitting comfortably together in a box, one soft the other stiff and man-made. 

To make is always a mixture of excitement and wonder how an idea comes to life and develops into the expression of emotion, thought and soul of both the materials and my response to them thus giving myself the encouragement to make.

I then came to finish the weaving when I realised that each piece was not yet complete, the sense of a completed work was when they were on their backgrounds which gave the weavings a place to call home.

These works are being shown as my solo exhibition and I am pleased how they have come together as both a body of work and individual pieces.



LIGHT AND VIDEO

 

I have made using what I recall as an amazing technology in its day - not that long ago, 20 years approx, it has gone from the tv to myself making Video into wall hangings, abstract baskets to weaving as a weft and sometime in the future warp to express my fascination for some years.

 It started with this dress which a friend kindly modelled for myself and I even received a prize for flamboyant fantasy some years ago..

Abstract is back

 

It has been happening while I figure out why the seem to make themselves with only myself getting fun from knowing that I have dyed the wool and removing what others might think of as rules. To me itself about shape, both deliberate and accidental as that has been my life for the last year.

 

 

These are how does one respond to texture, shape, form, perfection and faulty?

 

To leave the yarn has challenged some people but to myself it is how I need to let the piece be with it and me in harmony about the outcome.