Research

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December 2023

I explored some mix media artist who work in a more textile/fiber media as well as patch work.

Libby Williamson
Williamson creates fiber art, using layers of paint, dye, print, fabric and other. She creates a lot of work that resembles elements of the natural world, such as plants and the patterns/textures found on trees. I like the close up details she creates with her stitch work, creating a piece that people can stay and look at for a while, finding new shapes/patterns within the stitch work. I also like her use of colours in her projects, having a limited colour pallet, where she use moslty colours from one colour family such as teal/greens but adding some other colours like brown/reds that compliment the more dominate colour, i also like that she uses more muted colours. 
Williamson has also created a piece that shows 3 figures, I like the simplisty of this peice in her shapes, however having a more complext look through her colours, these ccolours creating shapes within her main shapes. These fingues reminds me of the ghost forms i have been creating, escpially my lino prints, due to the blank, blob like forms looking staight on, without much movement.
https://createwhimsy.com/projects/spotlight-libby-williamson-fiber-artist/







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