Tag: fields

I have quite a bit of time to fill before I actually start this course so obviously I am trying to research many different textile artists, get inspiration for my work and organise what might become my work space.

I have many thousands of images in my files that can be an aid to my work and its just a matter of shifting though all of them. I suppose I’m lucky that I have been collecting inspiration for many years but I also feel that I need fresh updated imagery that speaks to me in this moment not in the past. I will be very interested to see how many “older” images I use in my work.

The images below were actually taken last night so are as up to date as they could be. The farmer had just gathered up his hay and had left hay bales and track marks in his field. The mixture of the surrounding long glass, the hay bales and the lines give the image a tactile quality and I can see this being an inspiration for more 3D textile work such as embroidery or even macrame. The long yellow grass can be fringe, or padded appliqué, or a fabric such as velvet. The track marks could be a painted surface with embroidery over the top and the hay bales could be anything from beads to well anything.

Great images to work from and obviously I’m glad I was in the right place at the right time because the light plays a big part of exposing the different elements of the images.