Henri Matisse collected colourful textiles all his life. He would dress his models in his collection of folk and designer dresses and decorate his studio with fabrics from Africa and the Middle East. His paintings reflected the bold, bright colours of his collection, an example is shown above. Anne Rodpath painted the interior of her own home and again featured items she had collected herself, such as an Indian rug (below).
Caroline Kirton's creates images of the everyday life of teenagers (as above) using textiles, stitch and print. By using collages of colourful fabrics she plays with the concepts of decoration and function. Peter Clark collects old maps, books, tickets, packaging, postcards etc from car boot sales to use in his collages of clothes (below) and animals, especially dogs.
Julie Arkell also collects collage materials such as old books, buttons, ribbons and scraps of fabrics. She then uses them to create her menagerie of strange little characters and creatures (below), so turning things that were once functional into objects that are purely decorative.
Architect Antoni Gaudi used broken tiles and plates to decorate the outside of his wonderful buildings, many of which can be seen in Barcelona. He would often let the builders working on his buildings create their own mosaic patterns.
Julia McKenzie is a print maker. Her screen prints of broken blue and white china plates are reminiscent of Gaudi's mosaics, an example is below.
Henri Matisse collected colourful textiles all his life. He would dress his models in his collection of folk and designer dresses and decorate his studio with fabrics from Africa and the Middle East. His paintings reflected the bold, bright colours of his collection, an example is shown above. Anne Rodpath painted the interior of her own home and again featured items she had collected herself, such as an Indian rug (below).
Caroline Kirton's creates images of the everyday life of teenagers (as above) using textiles, stitch and print. By using collages of colourful fabrics she plays with the concepts of decoration and function. Peter Clark collects old maps, books, tickets, packaging, postcards etc from car boot sales to use in his collages of clothes (below) and animals, especially dogs.
Julie Arkell also collects collage materials such as old books, buttons, ribbons and scraps of fabrics. She then uses them to create her menagerie of strange little characters and creatures (below), so turning things that were once functional into objects that are purely decorative.
Architect Antoni Gaudi used broken tiles and plates to decorate the outside of his wonderful buildings, many of which can be seen in Barcelona. He would often let the builders working on his buildings create their own mosaic patterns.
Julia McKenzie is a print maker. Her screen prints of broken blue and white china plates are reminiscent of Gaudi's mosaics, an example is below.
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