In HUE our starting point was Robert Macfarlane's book 'The Old Ways - A Journey on Foot' along the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads and sea paths that crisscross the British landscape and its waters. My starting point was the ancient route across West Penwith that linked the Hayle estuary and Marazion saving the dangerous sea route around Lands End. Much of my work involves paper laminations of my photographs which allows the fragility of the ever changing patterns of the sea and sand at the entrance to the Hayle estuary from the seato be reflected.
Detail from Shore Visions
My work selected for the New Embroidery Group textile gallery is more varied but most of the pieces still include paper laminations but in a variety of ways. Be What You Are and City Skyline use text to create different patterns. The text reads "Do not try to be anything but what you are and try and be that perfectly' although writing it with a piece of slate and without spaces between words or lines means it is difficult to read.
Detail from Be What You Are
City Skyline
Depths of Time reflects the chaos of different sand patterns created by the retreating sea. This piece uses acrylic, distressed lutrador and paper lamination.
By contrast Random Confusion to Final Order has no paper lamination but relies on random effect of different acrylic pieces on cloth together with hand stitch.
Well I hope I will see some of you at Knit and Stitch, I am there parts of Thursday, Friday and Saturday and will try. Maybe my blogs will be more frequent in the future.
