contemporary abstract textile art by Mary-Clare Buckle, UK textile artist
Reflection
Size of original - 51cm x 93cm (framed size)
Framing method -
sandwiched in acrylic sheet, secured with 8 small brass bolts
click here to see what this type of framing looks like
or
click here to see a piece hanging in a living room
I seem to be using a lot of red/orange and blue these days!
Like a lot of the work I'm producing at the moment, I was orginally intending to cut up the piece to include 'tiled' squares in future pieces.
But, when I had created it, I decided, instead, to cut the whole piece into squares - somewhat akin to David Hockney's photomontages, in which dozens of polaroid images were used to build up the whole piece.
The piece grew organically and became much larger than I had originally expected, as a I added more and more squares.
When I had finished the piece, it brought to mind the orange/red-coloured buildings in Morocco or Tunisia, reflected in water ...