Sue Lawty

I also found another artist called Sue Lawty when I was researching about Polly Binns, I automatically fell in love with not only her loose weave samples but her style of mark making and development work too.
Her style of work was the most like mine compared to any other artist that I had found, I love her ideas behind her marks and drawing, and way that she interprits her thoughts into pieces of creations on paper.
Her media that she uses is all my own favourite kind to use, I really felt that I could relate to all her style of working, one inparticular body of work that I came across had a substancial use of pebbles,  
As well as the hands on work within her practice. I also came acroos some of her photography from a number of locations that she works from herself, just as I have done for my own project, I really liked how all of my artsists that I have researched upon are following the same kind of pattern and routine by the way that they are working. I feel that I can really relate to there practice, especially because they take photographs of there locations and go back to work on them later on.

 

 

Polly Binns

After my museum and gallery visit day, I left with excitement, having been so inspired I wanted to seek more and more information and ideas for my project, before I started on my own work properly, I decided to look up an artist that worked abit more with mark making work that I could be inspired to do the same as, as well as internet research and my weekly tutorial I came across an artist called Polly Binns, that Lesley had also mentioned to me, I found her Norfolk beach work in particularly extraordinary because the same as Richard Long her artwork began at many different locations, Places were her work could be spread out and really had the potential to be on a crazy scale, but then looked at much closer and unpicked to make the most beautiful and delicate samples.

 

 

 The sample below is my favourite sample by Polly because I feel that not only the choice of colour work but the pattern aswell links in with her project perfectly, I adore how delicate the same looks and how much time she must have taken out to create all of her samples.

 

A day of Inspiration..

Today I visited both the Manchester museum and the Manchester Art Gallery.

I wondered around a variety of different exhibitions, absorbing the information that was in front of my eyes, I thoroughly enjoyed taking time out to look at all of the work.

The best part of the day for me was In the Manchester museum, I was extremely inspired by one section in particular, this was the shells, fossils, crystals and minerals area.
As my project is based a lot around this kind of work, to see the actual objects in front of my eyes gave me a lot of ideas for the rest of my own practice. 
The shapes, the curves, the dents and the formations of each and every object have given me a lot of motivation to now go away and draw from exactly what I saw, taking photographic evidence is also a brilliant way for me to look back on what I discovered today. 
It was really interesting to see that the museum took a different kind of approach to its exhibitions by having a hands on attitude to the artwork, I was able to have a real feel of the shells which gave me a better idea of the kind of what kind of work I would like to do, an example of this is to have very vibrant and wild drawing work along side the most textured and experimental work that I have ever done.  

Juliette Hoffman

The second designer I found was called Juliette Hoffmann,the kind of work that she creates is just incredable. I love the subtle yet sophisticated colour combinations as well as the stunning textural fabric surfaces that she has decided on. Each piece of her work is bursting with excitment and unexpected forms, with so many unique qualities, her work really inspired me with not only my own colour pallet but for my drawings and mark making work too. Whether its through the use of floating yarns, the structures created by the knit pattern or the unsual placement of pleating, her work is just devine in every single way, her individual touch to her pieces is another quality that I would also like to add into my own project.

 

Jessica Leclere

As Im doing a textile course, I concider it important to find some kind of designer as well as just a bunch of artists.A designer that uses yarns and turns them into some kind of fabric or creation whether this a piece of work or a sample just like I would be doing.
I came across a designer called Jessica Leclere, she is a knitter, even though she is practicing something very different to me, I was extremley drawn into her way of working, I love her 3D structured forms made entirly of a wide veriety of yarns and embelishments, this a kay factor of something I would like to inlcude in my own work.
I think her fashion peices look very similar to shells and muscles all components that can make up a beach location. Her ideas and her very own insperation is something I myself would like to really include in my own project. My favourite part of Jessica's work is the yarn that she uses to sculpture together her designs, the choice of yarn that she has carefully thought about and chose to finilise the most unique and striking pieces of textile fashion work.
Her eye catching samples are what I want people to feel about my own work.                                                                                                                   

Richard Long

I then decided I was going to go back on my journey and look more at the artsist that first gave me my ideas and insperation, this was 'Richard Long'. 

The style of artwork that he created was on a massive life size scale, his kind of media or material was something I myself would never think to include in my own work, he uses lots of natural objects and open space (a space with a different location), he then photographs his work in a way that his audience can get involved in.

 I was inspired by Richard Long because I loved the way my mind went wondering when I look at his work, so many ideas and thoughts can come from just one piece, my imagination goes wild from his art work. I like the personal feelings behind his work, which was something I was trying to petry also.

   Another reason why I also fell in love with his work was because they were all captured in       

   different locations, this can involve the main structure to my brief, the idea of this fitting in very

   nicely with my own project.

   I also chose to look at Richard Long's work because one of his main objects that he used to create

   his work was stones, pebbles, rocks and sand, as you can see with the three images below, these 

  four components are what my very own project is going to be all about, his idea of media, space 

  and arrangment are three things that im really going to take on board for my own work.

The start of my artist research.. Zoe Howarth..

After weeks of researching what 'Locations' means to me,my next step is to do some artist research so I could start to build up my project, The photos I took from the beach were a brilliant starting point because now I didnt only know what kind of artists I was looking for but I was able to start a colour pallet for myself and begin a pattern and structure plan.

When researching I came across a practising artist like myself called 'Zoe Howarth' as she might not be well known at this point, I found her work very insperational for my own project.
She also had a blog exploiting her images, writing, ideas and imagination of ideas very similar to my own.
I became very intrigued by how she produced her work and felt myself wanting to look much deeper into her work to see how she designed and created not only her sampling work but her drawing and mark making develpoment work too.
Her own spesilism was also weave just like my own  which made this a lot easier to dive into her style of development work as it was also structure and pattern based just how mine was going to be.

 

 

The start of my self initiated brief..

Its always a good idea as a starting point for any new project to carry out some thourough research.
One of the best ways that I personally find helps me to do this is to brain storm, draw out a spider diagram of ideas and see where my imagination can spiral off to.
I started off by going to the libary and taking out some books that follow by the title of 'Locations' to see if this gave me any other kinds of insperation, none of the books were of any interest to me as they were'nt quiet including the types of things that I had in mind. The second plan of action was to then go away and do some internet research maybe artists that had the same ideas or were involved in similar projects, this was when I first came across Richard Long and his location work involving natural objects. I became automaticaly inspired by his work and this gave me the final idea of doing a project all about 'being close to home.'
From this the main task that I wanted to make sure I had to do over my Christmas break was to decide on a project title, the first thing, I did was ask myself, what does 'Locations' mean to me? I see the word locations meaning a a personal place to each and every person, I decided to look at my very own location, the main place I call home, the little town in North Wales, called Llandudno, a town full of life situated in the middle of two beautiful beaches, here there would be lots of opportunity's to take some great photos for my project, I didnt just want to take the average boring landscape picture of a typical British beach, so I decided to look much further in, and focus more on what makes up the beach, just like my original thought of 'what makes a location..?' A project all based on natural objects bursting with vibrant colours and exitment all focusing on the idea of something being close to home.
I went on a number of diffrent kinds of walks during my three week break, by the end I had unpicked exactly what I wanted to base my project on.
The cold sea water brushing over the rocks and pebbbles, the decay that has left the shiny wet rocks stay put in the grainy sand, seaweed, muscles and shells so pretty sparkling the day light, my ideas were now starting to come together.