Caroline Burton, Artist

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Reflection; Painting with fibres

7 of 100: Reflection

It's so easy to say "I'm going to produce a body of art, one piece at a time for 100 consecutive days".  So far, the grand total of 7 days in, my observations are as follows:

  • It is a good practise to go into the studio for a period of time each day with nothing more on the agenda than to produce a small experimental piece of work. It is sometimes in the routine practise that we find sudden inspiration for something new and exciting.

  • It is a practise that allows for extensive exploration of a particular detail - it can be tempting sometimes to skip over the discipline of producing samples and perfecting techniques before embarking on a larger piece (yep, confession time!)

  • I am not going to be 100% super excited about every piece that I produce in this process, but I am going to have to be a big girl and share it anyway - it is, after all, part of something bigger.

  • I really, really love felting :-)

  • Silk is an awesome fibre for adding texture and a depth of lustrous colour that is very pleasing

  • I am an extremely messy worker

OK, so I knew those last three points already.

It may be hard to discern at this stage, but there is an underlying theme that I am working within throughout this process.  Genesis 1 v 27; "So God created mankind in his image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them".   Number 7 is called "Reflection"

Detail: Listening