about me

Powys, Wales, United Kingdom
I am at my happiest when I'm creating something/anything....I'm of Welsh heritage, born in Canada, and have lived a quite curious life so far.....

Tuesday, December 08, 2015

playing around with surface pattern....


these images are part of a study on tea shops and cafes that I undertook for my BA in Textiles, where hearing threads of conversation made me think of beaded strings, the background layer was acrylic pallet knifed onto paper, the colour mixed to emulate tea, I then set about building various layers with Photoshop, just playing around with some of the exploration work I had undertaken in my sketchbooks





I had sketched, with ink, many the chairs I had found in the tea shops I had visited




wanting to see what blue looked like to balance out the 'tea' colour



gingham had shown its face in several of the tea shops  and so went on to appear  in my images




the original background before adjusting it with Photoshop

Thursday, January 08, 2015

Bejewelled Chandeliers




I found these lovely chandeliers in a small Ludlow Antique and Vintage Shop last year, I especially loved the bejewelled fruit. These photos make my mind girl with images of silk embroidered velvet again all in jewel like colours, perhaps something abstract this time