Art and Textiles: October 2013

Saturday, October 12, 2013

New blogs for year three at Bath Spa University, Creative Arts

This is just a note to say that this blog will now be superseded by two new blogs as I enter my third year at uni. There will be two blogs - one will be called 'The Art of Mending' and this will be my base for me textile project news. The starting point will pick up from last years work about damage and repair. The address will be: julieheaton-textiles.blogspot.co.uk

The second blog is 'The Effort of Perfect'. This blog will account for my third year art work and will continue exploring my need to be perfect. The address for this blog is: julieheaton-art.blogspot.co.uk

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Artist Statement

I am a mixed media artist living and working in Bristol. Always interested in art for pleasure, I embarked on creative courses as my second son started school. I was secure in a happy family life, but when tragedy struck art became my way of making sense of the world that I had unconsciously become part of. Emotions that made no sense could be explored and played with: loss, anger, control and hope worked through until a sense of calm could be achieved.

The work can be textile or paper based and often involves photography, but the direction always varies as it responds to my emotional state: sometimes process driven, sometimes a reaction to feeling or a thought. It may be in the form of obsessive and repetitive mark making or the abstract use of colours and symbols that explore psychological states of wellbeing. Sometimes it just records a moment which may become a memory, or may just become lost. But the aim is always the same: to live through the conflicts of life and appreciate that sometimes it can be the things that go wrong and show our vulnerability that can actually strengthen and add the most value.