‘après Mira’

‘Après Mira’ mixed media collage 2013.
I made this piece after visiting the Mira Schendel exhibition at the Tate modern. I layered old dress making patterns, adding handwritten and dry transfer text in between the transparent collage layers.

My side of the Mountain (simply B)

Mixed media collage with ceramic vessel

Upcoming exhibition

Entering final phase of preparation for upcoming show.
Fitting own work in around teaching and family proving tricky to juggle!
(also explains lack of posts for a while)

new painting

Really pleased with a new painting I’ve been working on, mixing rivot imagery with dress pattern collage. My painting experiments serve as studies for surface and patterning on my ceramic pieces.

colour and collage

I am also reworking some previous pieces by collaging sections of dress pattern and snippets of text and also adding more slivers of colour.

first layer colours

stage 2 after firing the base colour to fix it, I paint the first layer of coloured stripes by masking and painting freehand. I work on lots of pieces at once jumping from one to the next to mix and match the colours I choose.

getting started

stage 1 is to apply a thin layer of underglaze colour all over bisque ware surface, starting with a thin wash then buffing back to reveal the texture and details.

starting new work

my new series of work has begun with small collages composed from a mixture of printed text, old dress patterns, fabric, threads, buttons, snippets of text and paint

recent work

earthenware ceramics
with collage dress patterns, thread and wire.

computer manipulated photo

by layering two photos I can explore and evolve new ideas for surface decoration and colours.