So difficult to choose a favourite artist, I like so many! I had intended to do a piece based on the paintings of Wilhelmina Barnes- Graham as I'd done several exercises inspired by her work as part of online class with Elizabeth Barton on Abstract Art for Quiltmakers . But with the deadline looming, I decided to cut-down and re-use a piece I made several years ago based on depicting multiple viewpoints of a sculpture.
The Henry Moore sculpture that inspired me , ‘Hill Arches’ ,was part of an exhibition at Kew Gardens in 2007. At the time I as working there as a botanist and I loved having access to these sculptures over many months, able to view them in different lights and viewpoints. I made several journal quilts exploring ways of interpreting a 3D piece in 2D textiles( see below) I liked how the sculptures and their environment interacted and the marks on many of the bronzes reminded me of stitches.
Two black and white images of 'Hill Arches' sculpture by Henry Moore were combined in Photoshop. This was inkjet printed using 'poster printing' function to split an image over 4 A4 sheets onto hand dyed indigo cotton and silk treated with 'BubbleJet Set'. Machine quilted with variegated threads, hand stitched with cotton perle thread
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