During my MFA Art, Science and Visual Thinking course at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, I focused on experimenting with colour and shapes obtained from natural sources.
My practice mainly concentrates on identifying the specificity of direct eco-printing and natural dyeing with modifiers, extracting colour substances from plants, gathering and processing animal fibres, which I use as a medium in natural dyeing processes.
Discovering the relationship between different methods of colour extraction and dyeing of animal fibres pushes me to deepen research processes at the molecular level. This allows me to extend my knowledge and apply it in more complex processes with the aim of finding new discoveries in the field of natural dying.
Looking at historical art and traditional processes inspired me to incorporate hand embroidery into my practice, in order to better capture the beauty of nature. In traditional embroidery, the marks are created by a human hand. In my approach, I left that process to nature itself. I follow the marks created by nature in a direct print processes.
There is something more than line, mark or print…That is my interpretation of shape and texture. I remain faithful to what is my inspiration: nature. When I acquired the ability to extract colours from leaves, bark, seeds, flowers and fruits, I decided to kept them in the fibres of the fabric. And this material is used for further ‘remembering’, ‘photographing’, ‘printing’, almost mimicking the nature. That is my textile sculpting.
