Art and Textiles: The end is in sight

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

The end is in sight

I have just finished putting together my professional practice folders. I have worked really hard and tried to make sure everything is up together.

We had to give our presentations today and I completely did not realise I had to talk about my work The Wait. I was so disappointed as I had all the info in my sketch book and already recorded on my blog. Not sure how that I managed to miss this message from the tutor but will try and just get on with the rest of the course work and just hope that all the hard work will be ok in the end. At least I have learnt an awful lot this year and been able to really appreciate the whole experience.

Now I will return to textiles for the last 10 days before I start preparing for Art in Action.

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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.