Mixed Media Textiles

Walking, Walking in the Garden

Flower Weaving

 

Flower weaving is about taking the theme of “Site” out into the woods near my home. Taking time to tune into my body-being, to connect inside – emotionally, physically, mentally, energetically – coming from a place of embodiment as I make my art. Allowing myself to walk where I am drawn to walk, stopping where I wish to stop and then arriving in to connection with the land, trees and natural world. Beginning to move and/or make work from that which I am experiencing of this natural setting eg. the colours, the textures, the shapes and the taste of each season. I see where this leads my work next.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have a wish to be weaving – weaving in my walking, my dancing/moving, in my artwork. I have been drawn to the small weavings of Sheila Hicks and the amazing colours woven together in the Lappish wall hangings. I am taking inspiration for the colours of the weaving work from nature. I am drawn to beautiful bright colours and how they contrast each other. I am also taking inspiration for the way nature weaves – the spiders, the vines, the birds. I would like to take these as a starting point from whence I can dive off.

 

Weaving, colour, nature and being connected, in my body, to where I am, is very calming and heartening, soul down. I need this right now, to find my way through this very intense and fragile time. This is a prayer, a meditation and a ritual that guides and informs the art that I make.