the continuing conversation between art and life
Alexandra Kingswell mixes Fibonacci sequence, Pi and vibrant colours in ways which make your eyes and spirit sing. Her infectiously joyous colours and patterns are derived from mathematical equations - do you know anyone else who enthuses about the pattern formed at "some 544 decimal places into Pi..? Her website is a treat of inspiration …
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Working from a 2D flat 1939 Christian Dior Design, a skilfull dressmaker, Domenique Erb, takes proportions, measurements, then drapes, pins and sews muslin on a dressmaker's bodyform dummy to bring it to 3D life as a template for an evening gown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGULpcJKbmc Why do Couture garments cost so much? Well, once you've viewed this video, …
HP Jewellery makes contemporary lovely metallic accessories, in the middle of Inverness, Highlands, Scotland. Yet available online. I have completely fallen in love with the cufflinks in the featured photo which should be appearing at the top of this post. In case it doesn't, I append it again - otherwise my deep appreciation will seem …
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For anyone who loves sci fi and TV culture and wool.... a designer who feels the same: Bridget Thuemmel at Steven Be studio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ghd2E4fi-s Not only does she design, she also knits while reading a book. Fingerless mittens thumbs up - for someone who clearly loves her day job - as does the presenter, Kristy …
Di Gilpin, a self-taught knitting designer in Scotland, speaks in this video about her collaboration with couture designers, including her shrug inspired by the White Witch in "the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" - and the tattoes of a Russian warrior princess. As she points out, with a lacey knit worn over bare skin, …
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Fashion is to give us dreams and feelings - it is passing, but beauty is eternal
Micah Purnell has put his poetry on billboards in a project "Dear Progress". He meditates on progress - and what it's doing for us as a society. Displayed in Manchester.
After all the fuss about the glorious 1950s abstract paintings was waning, someone got around to recognising the same style in patchwork quilts made by black ladies in Alabama, at Gee's Bend, for basic human survival. https://vimeo.com/216875117?ref=fb-share These quilts are perfect material to cover in this blog - they were made for real life, to …
Two days ago, I went to Little Sparta, Scottish home of poet Ian Hamilton Finlay - whose garden contains words set in stone, playful and very often anti-war symbols - a place of imagination with 300 word/art works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jee-4F0Xwxg "The garden functions as a political statement.... it suggests that as it is possible to transform …
You can have the world at your feet..... or take the weight of the world off your feet... with this pouffe. Hot air balloons, butterflies and rivers are just some of the intricate patterns on this pouffe designed by Kristjana Williams. One of her largest scale commissions was a theatrical light projection for the Rio …
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