YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK WITH FRIENDS

A couple of weekends ago an artist friend of mine and recent rug project collaborator Adele Jackson decided to have a walk round the Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield. It’s just up the road from me and it was such a beautiful day. As well as enjoying the weather and sculptures around the park we stumbled upon the installation of some of the Jean Miro sculptures around the grounds. Here is just a record of our day in the country with Jean Miro, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Adele Jackson.

LAURA SLATER TEXTILES @ THE HEPWORTH WAKEFIELD

I was recently commissioned to make a handling sample for The Hepworth Gallery Wakefield by the textile artist Laura Slater. The piece was for the handling department of the education centre at The Hepworth. Laura had created a new fabric design and is a translation of her ‘Concrete’ print which was specifically developed for The Hepworth to form part of their handling collection of artworks. The rug sample was to echo this and have a tactile quality that couldn’t be achieved through any other creative techniques. Laura visited the studio and we put together some yarns with different tactile qualities such as felted wool, linen and viscose which has a luxuriously soft feel when it was tufted. All these different textures were to be used in one sample to get a combination of textures in one handling sample.

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“The piece focuses on interpreting themes within Peter Lanyon's abstract landscape work to support interaction with art particularly for those with additional needs including visual impairments.

'reciprocal energy flowed between his painting and those who looked at them, so that, in effect, an image was only completed by the viewers reaction to it’- of Peter Lanyon.

The tactile nature of this piece invites individuals to engage with it through both sight, and touch, within that enabling an individual response to the imagination of ones own landscape.” – Laura Slater, Textile Artist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LUXOR

Someone has commented on my previous "Plough" rug photographs that they look like images taken from an hot air balloon.....well here are some I took earlier.
They are photos taken on a trip that I took to Luxor in Egypt and were taken very early in the morning.