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January 4th, 2006 - working spontaneously
Wednesday, 04 January, 2006 - 21:39
“In the studio I like to be free to work intuitively - feeling my way inch by inch - making decisions based on what has been laid down previously. It’s very much a two way process - a dialogue between the artist and the work.”
From weblog of Sue Lawty, textile artist in residence at V&A
I have been thinking about the same thing recently. I’ve been struggling to be inspired by some of the exercises in the course which take you the student a journey through depiction, abstraction, analysis of patterns, textures, colours etc. At the moment it feels forced for me. I’m so used to working intuitively, feeling my way inch by inch and having the dialogue I choose to have. I’m drawn again and again to the patterns in waves, pebbles – images, patterns and textures appear in my mind and develop over time. At the moment, my preoccupations don’t seem to work so well when they need to fit into the specified exercises. I’m so glad that sketch book work is as important as the exercises. Some of my development work comes about while trying to fall asleep at night. If I find myself worrying over every day life things, then I find it helpful to distract myself by thinking about how to recreate sea patterns, layering bits of crocheted wool etc.
My next major section of the course is printing. I feel quite daunted at the moment by the prospect of not knowing what to buy. I’d love to try out the silk painting but it’s quite expensive. Marbling looks really exciting too!
