'Your beauty is beyond compare...'

Two more pages from my sketchbook, like I said in my previous post I have been keeping my pages simple and here focused on exploring with different materials and composition.

'Make you feel my love...'

 

The top image here shows three samples mounted onto one board. The board presents a collection of ideas on how to combine various materials as well as different text. I was also experimenting with colour, trying to finalize a colour palette for my final pieces.



 

 

Again the top image shows a board with three varying samples presented on it. I was partiularly enjoying the use of handmade felt in neutral colours. Especially the two samples which have been pictured above.

This was a sample that was displayed on its own; it was created by using both machine stitch and hand embroidery into handmade felt. I particularly like how I left the threads hanging; I felt it created a worn or aged look to the sample.

'Memories that fade like photographs...'

 So my FMP has been handed in and my exhibition has been set up. I'm really happy with my final outcome; however I haven't been able to get a photograph of my exhibition space.

My final piece ended up being a skirt I made out of wire and tissue paper, and then pinned in random places over the skirt were 'medals' that I had made.

After researching into great detail various aspects of my family history I decided to focus my FMP on my Grandparents, their love, the war, my Grandad as a naval soldier, and their lives together.

Below are 12 of the 24 medals that I made and the show the different materials and methods I used and they evaluate aspects of my Grandparents lives.

 

 

These first three are provide information on my Grandad, and the role he played in the Second World War.

These three examples introduce my Grandparents as a couple - Lilian and Thomas Kirkham.

  

These three a plain samples where I only used hand embroidery to experiment with mark making. I think they express the possibility of where I could develop these medals.

  

In these three samples I used imagery, daes and phrases to illustrate the war and how it was a big part of my Grandparents lives, not just as a couple but the general impact on them and their community.

'She waits in the late twilight...'

This, and 3 others, were the result of a side project from my FMP. Still relating to my family I created four framed textile pieces which combined old family photos and textiles processes. This photograph  is of my great grandmother and her three sisters, it is dated 1922.

This decoration is made of a single circle of old book page, a single circle of hand-made felt and then three buttons sewn on to finish it. I think this would actually look lovely as a broach or a decoration for hand-made cards etc.

The colours could be made to preference, and the book page could be chosen for a meaningful reason or if they have no preference just any book page could be used.