HNC Project Five - Landscape, Properties and Product

It has been a very difficult time (the last couple of months), and weaving work has taken a back seat, along with a lot of other things.

Weaving has been hard, challenging and utterly frustrating, perhaps I was over ambitious.  Using monofilament was not a good idea - though I am sure if all my stars were aligned, it would be easier :)

Most of the mono has been ditched, but I have retained some elements and am making some samples which I can live with - hooray !

 Little fish

One way - not entirely successful - to create a second beam.  At last, I have been able to put peg loom to some use.

I also discovered that super glue can be your friend when using monfilament, and that it is possible to come up with a knot which will work :)






Double weave sample which I was really pleased with, however, the technical problems (warp) meant I had reconsider my position.







I decided to discard the warp, and start agin !





Over to the right -->
perspex rods, dyed with alcohol inks








One of the earlier
images from my sketchbook

HNC Project Three - Manipulation and Distortion

 Limestone

Early summer  2013 at Arnside, Cumbria

"Arnside is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England. It faces the estuary of the River Kent on the north eastern corner of Morecambe Bay, within the Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty." (wikipaedia)

My first real visit and so shocked and disappointed to find the beach was in fact, a mud flat :(  Who knew?

It was a grey day, low light and not very inspiring, however, on scratching the surface.....................


Mood board for this project: exploring cracked and weathered limestone rock, lichen, reflections.

A graphite study of strata and 
cracks in a layer of limestone 

on the edge of the beach. 

Finding key shapes in the rock

A first response, in colour, to the inhabited cracks in the limestone.

Felted textile

I incorporated scraps of fabric and 

copper wire, hand-made threads 

(watch out Michael Brennand-Wood!)

.....must look for a better image, or take a new one.

Incidentally, Michael Brennand-Wood - I find his work very stimulating.  I was quite moved by a piece I found through an internet search, I must go and see it at the Bankield Museum, Halifax (2000) 

I seem to have mislaid every photo I took for project 3.  Oh dear.