I’ve always found interest in landforms – the processes that produce them on different kinds of material, and I studied geomorphology at university, so not surprising perhaps. In the 80s, I was definitely aware of being inspired by the shapes, lines, colours, and textures of Landscape; but I wasn’t thinking much about my emotional reactions to it.
This poor quality image is of a 1995 work, “Pahoehoe 1” and there are several other works from that time based on these landforms.
I addition to the those two, there are others prompted by an experience while I was an artist in residence in Katherine NT, one very hot afternoon hiking up a dry river bed of rounded stones to a bush picnic spot. I did several based on that memory, including Sunburnt Fragments and Afterglow, below:
I’ve done lots of creating with these shapes in 2D, but as my regular readers will know, I am increasingly interested in 3D soft sculptural forms, including Growth, which will be showing in my upcoming exhibition in Madonado Uruguay opening January 2nd.
In a recent sunday morning browse on Pinterest, I came across a wonderful sculptural fibre piece, and followed the link to fibre artist Tininha Silva’s website . Her clear, brief statements really resonated with my own inspiration from organic patterns in and on the Earth’s surface.
The longer I spend making fibre art, the less surprised I am to discover links back to my my past, like threads running through the different parts of my life.