My inspiration
A rather grand title really!
I was browsing the internet last night (couldn’t sleep), going from link to link when I realised how much I ‘take’ from it and from peoples sites and blogs, looking at their links and so on and seeing all these wonderful ideas and objects that I wouldn’t have found otherwise, when I thought that actually, I should share some of mine.
The only connection will be that I like it, they maybe from shops, blogs, museums, old and new, but occasionally I will share, and not just talk about myself!
So, first up – but how can I choose, when you start to think about it there is so much – I never really did get back to sleep last night, once I got the idea my mind was full of images.
Finally I settled on Alison Watt, one of my absolute favourite artists. I saw her work in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, in an exhibition called Shift in 2000. It was purely by chance, we were there with my parents, a last break before our first was born.
I was blown away, these huge paintings of folds and drapes in fabric with minimal colour. So deep and tactile, so strangly moving. There is something about almost bare images, focusing on small details that we miss, particually within textiles that always draw me in, especially when explored in huge scale.
For more information, and to see more pictures like these 3 go to Ingley Gallery, or just google Alison Watt, trust me, you’ll be browsing for hours!
