Module 6– Creative Conservation

Introduction

This module is about the study of the colours within sea and sky and below I have made a collection of some paintings that interest me and photos that I have taken.

In 1998 I went to an exhibition by Jonathan Miller at the National Gallery entitled “On Reflection”.  I thoroughly enjoyed this exhibition and bought the catalogue.  There were a number of examples of reflections in mirrors, windows, shiny bowls and also in water.  Here are some examples:

     
Burne-Jones Study for Mirror of Venus      Caillebotte – L’Yerres in the Rain
                       
Carter-Bresson Place de l’Europe in the Rain    Escher – Rippled surface

Another exhibition that I enjoyed many years ago at the Royal Academy was Monet in the ‘90s in which they exhibited series of his paintings and it is interesting to see how the skies all differ depending on the time of year or the time of day.  Again I have taken these images from the catalogue I bought at the time.
      
     
        
Three images taken from the internet showing Turner’s skies.
   

Here is a selection of images I have taken, some recently and some from my files.
     
Wadswick sunsets
     
Urchfont,  Gujarat,   Jasper’s photo, Gujarat
     
Castle Bijapur
     
     
Bowerhill sunset
  
Clouds on walk  
     
From a barge in Bruge  
  
  
  
Lake at Corsham Court on windy day
  
  
  
Waterfall at Belton House, Grantham

Pultney Weir, Bath

Module Five–completion notes

This is a photo of me working on hand stitches in Chapter Nine of this module.



These are my completion notes, time log, material costs, reference books, health and safety issues and evaluation of my resolved sample.

Chapter Nine

          

Images 9.1 and 9 text 1

    

      
Images 9.2 and 9 text 2

       
Image 9.3 and 9 text 3

Rubbings from relief surfaces in white Markel on tissue paper

Image 9.4

   

Image 9.5

    

Image 9.6

    

Image 9.7

    

Image 9.8

    

Image 9.9

I have thoroughly enjoyed this chapter experimenting with different threads and stitches.  I started it over a year ago and taken it on several holidays to enable me to have something to pick up and put down.  Deciding to use just one stitch for the formal and informal samples was challenging but I was keen to stick to my decision rather than introduce another stitch.  I am very please with the variety of stitches and techniques so I think I may well mount them properly in due course.

Chapter Twelve–completed

In my feedback it was suggested that I mount my resolved sample and I must say I am pleased with the result. 

Chapter Twelve–part three

It is difficult to know when to stop but I think I am there!

I must say I have enjoyed creating this resolved sample.  I really love the colours and I am pleased with my choice of stitch and manipulation. 

   

It was difficult to decide whether to have gaps between the pieces or not so I took some photos and pinned them to my board.  I hope I have made the right decision but I think I have!  The frayed background I also like as I feel it is continuing the theme.  I am pleased I was able to use some of the dyed cottons I made in the past because the subtle colours have worked well.  I plan to mount the finished piece on black which I feels shows off the colours.  As I said above, I think I have added sufficient stitch to merge the edges but I will wait for comments and my feedback.  I could easily add more.

Chapter Twelve–part two

I have now completed my four pieces which, when assembled, will form my textured resolved sample. I gave myself a goal and have really enjoyed getting totally immersed in the work.
As Siân suggested, I used a variety of greys in my choice of material and threads and picked up the yellow from the bleached paper in my chosen design shape.  Rummaging through my piles of dyed fabrics I came across some pieces that I prepared during module two when I was doing the black and white animal theme.

Images 12.14, 12,15, 12.16 & 12.17
As you can see I have wrapped 12.14 & 12.15 around some Vilene but the other pieces are self supporting and can be stitched to the background.
Below I have been experimenting with the background.  Do I have a similar colour, do I have a completely different pale colour or a dark colour?  Do I have the pieces close together or do I leave space between?

12.18 & 12.19
I do not have a large piece of the blue/grey material only small pieces however I thought it might be interesting to make a feature of this by joining them together with a running stitch using a contrasting thread. 

12.20 & 12.21
This background is open weave and I have frayed the edges.  I like the colour of this background and it gives good contrast but I am not convinced it is the right one to use.  Another idea I had was to draw some threads from the background but not sure about that.

12.22 & 12.23
This background is some silk dupion I have but I think it is too white.

12.24
I really don’t like the black background so that has been eliminated already but it was interesting to see it.
At this point in time I think I favour having the pieces together using either the blue/grey or the open weave.  Lots more decision to make but I am pleased with my progress.  If any DS’s or friends look at this chapter I would welcome their comments!