Summer School

I thought I would share some of the work I did with Sarah Burgess at this year's summer school, particularly as it was focused on 'line'.

We had to bring some pictures/photographs of landscapes that we particularly liked and among mine was this one of the Athabasca trail in Canada.  The First Nation Canadians walked this trail along the river from their summer camps to their winter camps and it is a very atmospheric place, although the photographs don't do it justice.

We then had to make a stitch print from which we did lots of mono printing. Unfortunately the window frame has cast a shadow over my work.

I particularly liked these prints and thought that they followed the path a river might make.

I worked on these pieces using wire to follow the pattern.  I thought that they might represent pathways throughout ones life.  The 3d piece is the feeling of going round in a circle, the yellow one with the split wires is where you have to choose a pathway and represents the road not taken.  The orange one has a dark beginning where your life is out of control but you make the change and the pathway becomes smoother and brighter.  The black one is life itself from small tight changes in childhood to bigger more varied changes during middle life and gradually smoothing out in later life.

The next day we printed onto long strips of fabric using different printing equipment if we wanted to.  These are my favourite pieces and ones which I hope to work on later.

These were some more of the first days work that I particularly liked and have worked into.