Textiles

After visiting my home city of Nottingham today I am feeling very inspired. I took my regular visit to the Victoria market whilst there and saw my favourite textile shop with so much choice. I want to get back into textile work as well as my artwork and combine the two, so this was a major influence for things I can practice during the summer when I have set my own brief to keep myself busy. I also brought some scraps whilst there to use within my project right now and to collage.

Sophie Ryder

I was thinking back to past visits I have been on, and I thought about the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. This is where I first discovered Sophie Ryder's work. Something about it instantly caught my attention and made me love the work. I didn't know what this was at first, but I think it's the size of the pieces and the material in which these are created. I loved the hybrid hare/women sculptures that were exhibited here especially the one shown above. The scale of this piece was just incredible as it was so big and made it look so powerful and strong.

"Still Bored"

I took out a book from the library today entitled still bored. This appealed to me as it is designs for skate, surf and snow boards, all of which I have an interest in. The design concepts on some of them are fantastic and I discovered that a lot of them are really brightly coloured. This inspires me with my work as I'd like to work with some of the more natural themes within a similar style but also use the brightly coloured work and use of pattern within some of my own work. It also opens up another possibility of where illustration and graphic design can be used as well as within books, magazines, newspapers and artwork for bands etc.

Alex Pardee

This image is really striking to me as it is a contrast to Alex Pardee's usual work of the linear elements and bright ink marks. I particularly like this image due to the clever use of the material being worked upon. The colour of the paper is incorporated into the image and used as the mid tones. I feel this works really well to create a contrasting image which is striking to say that it is very linear. The clever use of white at the bottom draws attention and is made in such a way that the marks look a little like smoke. I feel the image has a quite steampunk inspired look to it, and a vintage style, which is another element which inspires me a lot within my work. I feel the simple use of shading and minimalist style to the drawing actually gives it much more detail than overloading with lots of texture and shows that not all images that are amazing are ones with the most detail etc put into them. I would like to try and create some imagery similar to this at some point and try a more minimalistic approach to see if this provides as good an effect within my work.

Camille Rose Garcia

I absolutely love Camille Rose Garcia's work. She has inspired my work right since I saw it back in my year 10 at school during an art class. I love the cartoonish style in which she draws and the depicted wastelands  to show a negative meaning in her imagery yet the contrast of bright colours to kind of say hey, it's a bad world, but it's so well hidden who cares. This naivety also shows with the drawing style as if it is imagery from a children's book. Another aspect I like is the mixed media elements within her work, and the layering and use of media. The washes of colour for backgrounds contrast well with the bolder foreground elements. The use of mixed media in these images definately inspires me a lot to use mixed media within my work as it looks so appealing and detailed, whilst looking all decorative.