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Category Archives: Visual Culture as Inspiration
St Edmund’s, Southwold. Revisiting Rood Screens, Suffolk VI – An unexpected offshoot!
Sometimes I stick quite closely to my source inspiration as with the first two of my recent Edlyn series of silk scarves. Picking a panel and details from one of the panels of the St Edmund’s rood screen and working … Continue reading
Posted in Scarves, Suffolk, Visual Culture as Inspiration
Tagged creative process, creativity, design, designer maker, inspiration, photos, rood screen, rood screens, silk painting, Southwold, St Edmunds
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St Edmund’s, Southwold. Revisiting Rood Screens Suffolk V – Working from ‘David with harp’
Here is another of my Edlyn series. Working with the same design, but this time choosing colours from another panel. I rather liked the melancholy of the ‘David with harp’ panel and I thought the blues, the very pale grey, and … Continue reading
St Edmund’s, Southwold. Revisiting Rood Screens Suffolk IV – finishing the first Edlyn
When I last posted about my Edlyn series I had just begun painting the first Edlyn scarf. With continual reference to my photograph of the Isaiah panel of the rood screen, I began selecting my colour combinations and mixing up … Continue reading
Posted in Scarves, Suffolk, Visual Culture as Inspiration
Tagged creative process, inspiration, medieval art, painting, rood screen, silk painting, silk scarf, Southwold, St Edmunds, textiles
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St Edmund’s, Southwold. Revisiting Rood Screens Suffolk III
Four years ago during the autumn of 2014 I blogged a sequence of posts relating how I was inspired by the Ranworth rood screen to create some silk scarves. Now is that time of year when I turn to looking … Continue reading
Posted in Scarves, Suffolk, Visual Culture as Inspiration
Tagged creativity, design, heritage, inspiration, medieval art, rood screen, silk painting, silk scarf, Southwold, St Edmunds
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Revisiting Rood Screens – Suffolk I
It was just over 18 years ago that I spent several months visiting a number of medieval churches in East Anglia to photograph their painted rood screens. At the time I was working on the rood screens as part of … Continue reading
Posted in Suffolk, Visual Culture as Inspiration
Tagged East Anglia, inspiration, medieval art, Ranworth, rood screen, saints, Southwold, St Edmunds, St Edmunds Southwold, Suffolk
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Sunflowers
There is something perennially charming about a jug of fading sunflowers. You can see why Vincent Van Gogh was so taken with them. Famously, he painted sunflowers many times including the seven ‘Sunflowers’ canvasses which were ‘nothing but sunflowers’.Of the … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Visual Culture as Inspiration
Tagged art as inspiration, inspiration, jug of flowers, River Nile, silk, silk painting, sunflowers, Van Gogh, Vans
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Stealing from Tudor Artisans – Part II
Last week I posted about my discovery of a beautiful example of Tudor woodwork, the Parham fire surround. I found the detailed carving inspirational and have developed a motif from one of the pheasants lurking in the carved vegetation. Here … Continue reading
Posted in Art History, Visual Culture as Inspiration
Tagged bird motif, handpainted, inspiration, motif, pheasant, pink silk, silk scarf, Tudor, work in progress
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Stealing from Tudor Artisans – Part I
Always on the lookout for captivating visual imagery with which to work, a trip to an exhibition often yields a good collection of useful photographs. Mind you it is surprising how often I go thinking I know what I need … Continue reading
Update on upcycled silk scraps – Part II
In Part I of ‘Update on upcycled silk scraps’ I wrote about my research in preparation for making a wall hanging to be considered for the exhibition ‘Norwich Shawls: Past Glory, Present Inspiration’. Ruminating on the harsh and often poorly … Continue reading
Stealing from the past – painting Silvia
Living in East Anglia there are many parish churches that still retain both medieval and Victorian church art. Painted rood screens and colourful stained glass provide a wealth of inspiration for my silk scarf designs. I like to steal ideas for … Continue reading
Posted in Scarves, Silk, Visual Culture as Inspiration
Tagged colour combinations, creativity, design, inspiration, medieval, medieval church, motif, rood screen, stained glass, Victorian
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Different interpretations – costume designs for Madama Butterfly at the La Scala Museum, Milan.
Last November I was visiting Milan and had the opportunity to go to the opera at La Scala to see a semi-staged version of ‘Porgy and Bess’. It was intense and moving and very dramatic. The next morning I went … Continue reading
Posted in Art History, Visual Culture as Inspiration
Tagged artists, Caramba, costume design, creativity, Foujita, La Scala Museum, La Scale, Luigi Sapelli, Madama Butterfly, Mori, Palanti, Ukiyo-e
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