Not usually one to start preparing for anything early but here I am trying to master WordPress. It’s not my first rodeo with WordPress and I do not find it intuitive but I’ll give it another go. Let’s start off the first module of the OCA Textile degree with a very positive attitude. I can do it –
My name is Marie Godfrey and I am spending the summer at our house in Cornwall – well why not – but soon it will be time to go back to the suburbs of London. I have spent my time here walking our dog and taking in the serenity and astounding beauty of the Cornish coastline.
Being surrounded by a palette of coastal colours, blues, greens, earthy neutrals is calming to the soul. Of course the colours change dramatically depending on the time of day, the sunlight and the weather. The colours of Cornwall are not without their splashes of zingy bold colours – little boats on the sea painted in red and white, windbreaks in their merry stripes and bold jaunty swimming costumes of the people brave enough to venture into the cold waters. Sometimes the seascape becomes shimmering liquid silver when a watery sunlight is shining through grey clouds onto the sea and sometimes the water is a deep turquoise The myriad of different colours and hues are of course inspirational. Many contemporary artists find inspiration for their beautiful work from our coastline as have generations of artists throughout time. This genuinely concerns me. I seriously wonder how it is possible to make unique work when so many talented crafts people have already used coastal features, seaside artefacts, coastal colour pallets in their work.
Louise Day is a visual artist living and working in Argyll on the West coast of Scotland. According to her website http://www.louiseday.co.uk Louise uses “drawing, textile and watercolour to create works inspired by the natural forms of my beautiful local environment.”
The above images are textiles created by Louise Day using the Sea as inspiration. She doesn’t give the textiles names or not that I can see anyway. The colours that she uses are beautiful – water like and painterly. The textiles appear to be prints some with surface embroidery. Sadly I haven’t see these textiles in person so am just making assumptions based on the images that Louise has shown on her website.
Why is my first chosen artist in my online diary Louise Day?
It’s definitely something to do with the depth of colour she has used and the small details of neutrals or whites that serve as a contrast to lift the deeper colours and also to highlight them.
MARIE GODFREY ONLINE DIARY 