Next plans / new interesting and inspiring artists:

Next plans:

I am now trying to prgress towards making my works even more elegant. I feel that the PVA glue was holding the works back in this department and adding an experimantal feeling with a gluggy/heavy quailty.
I want to use similar patterns of weaving and grids, laying the nylon strands in different intensities to build up colour and highlight the areas that I leave empty.
For these works I will glue nylon strands around plain frames to focus on the delicacy of the thin nylon strand sfloating in space.








Artists that have inspired me:

Enchanting Ennui, Shirley Kaneda, 2008, oil on linen

 

One experiment that I will try is embedding solid shapes into the wovan canvases made from strands of layered nylon. I want to try and tie them in/ weave the nylon through them from different angles to hold them in palce. The sloid shapes were inspired by the works of Shirley Kaneda where her oil paintings on linen play around with the layering up of solid line, abstract patterns and solid shapes.

Shirley Kaneda
Thunderous Silence, 2009
Oil on Linen

 

Linda Besemer:

 

Linda Besemer Fold #7: Optical Objectile 1998 acrylic on aluminum

 

 

I am very interested in the layer and build up of different coloured nylon strands. I want to use the frame as my support and build up different areas of thickness around the stirdy frame. I want to create an illusion that some areas are thicker and some thinner. The thicker areas will explore the layering of colours, and creating the ability for these strands to compact together to almost make a canvas background. The thinner areas will explore the delicacy fo the thin nylon strands and their individual colours amongs the space around them, they are elegantly floating in space, supported only by the tension of each one wrapped around the frame.