`Collection`
The Loft Gallery
10th Aug - 8th Sept
`Collection` is a collaboration of works, brought together by textile designer and artist Morag Tweedie and ceramicist Eleanor Bartleman and are studies of pattern in paint and porcelain.
Morag works with paint, print and stitch on fabric and paper. Collageing them together she has made these wonderful studies of birds and flowers (and even a couple of toads) taking inspiration from walks around her house and garden. Each piece is a patterned representation rather than an accurate recording.
Magic carpet(heading north) and Magic carpet(heading south)
in mixed media textile
...bird in hand in mixed media
soldiers(plantain) in paint-inktense
Eleanor loves colour and has chosen to work in porcelain as the strong, high-fired clay
displays colour with vibrancy. The original inspiration for her animal figures comes from the `Beast Epic of Reynard the Fox`, in which animals play out characters in society. Here she has a sort of fashion collection of these, dressed in their finery in ideas developed from Elizabethan and Jacobean embroidery and design.
Reindeer Treasure Box
Brocade Dog
Striding Brocade Wolf
What can I say, these two artists have produced a selection of works that sit perfectly together.
Although both work in very different medias the pieces complement each other with the rich textures, beautiful colours and the delicate details it is just an exquisitely, wonderful and delightful collection!
(And judging by the amount of `sold` red dots, I`m not the only one!!)
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