Wednesday 18 September 2013

Artist Research - Textiles

Cas Holmes

Holmes uses paper, textiles and mixed media in her work. 
She likes to use discarded or waste material items and develops her pieces using stich and collage.
Her art usually is formed by many layers, including paint, fabric, paper, newspaper, stich and various print. 
Her work can be 2D or 3D, in different forms and shapes such as books.

Mr Finch






Mr Finch is a textile artist who created 3D work using fabric scraps, stitch, found objects and mixed media to create unusual pieces based around nature and animals/insects. Often the size of his art is surreal and over-exaggerated. The colours he uses in his work are usually contrasting or complimentary. 

Val Holmes

A textiles artist, creating art usually nature-themed. Her work usualy illustrates fossils, leaves, trees etc. The colours of her work are usually warm, some contrasting and some tertiary. She often uses collage, stitching one image on top of the other, therefore creating many layers to her artwork. Val uses paper, silk and various fabrics to create her images.

Jennifer Collier

An artist working in a 3D manner, creating objects out of various materials (maps, paper, fabric) with techniques such as stitching, bonding, waxing, trapping and stitching. She re-creates found house-hold objects, vintage and modern. She makes them out of book-pages, magazines, newspaper, paper, card, etc.

Betty Pepper

Simillarily to Jennifer Collier, this artist uses both paper and fabric/stitch in her art. She finds her inspirations in stories, poems and memories, as she states herself. Pepper's material of choice is paper from books or maps and she combines it with stitch, quilting, stitching and using the reverse applique. Her work is usually 3-Dimentional and the colours are tertiary and rather calm.