Submission for Online Exhibition

This week I have been busy trying to work out how to best display my work for the online exhibition. I think I am fairly happy with this display

The back left piece is made from pine needles, the back right from rushes and the one in the from from convolvulus stems. They are all quite different to work work but it has been such and interesting and exhilarating experience creating with these simple botanical materials. I feel a certain connection both to the natural world and to the women artists who came before creating utility items and learning about the materials they had to hand and then progressing from simple shapes to works of art.

For some time now I have been wanting to move into three dimensional work so this has been a good taste of that. Fibre Arts Take Two programme with Harriet Goodall was the basis for creating these vessels. I have really enjoyed the challenge of the course and the aha moment that simple materials can be utilised in the creation of these woven specimens.