Arteology

Arteology is all about layers. About excavations, explorations and findings.

Layers of hand dyed silk create ethereal pieces evocative of places, seasons, mythologies. These are The Uncoverings.

I use various traditional shibori fold-resist techniques to dye the silk in these fibre pieces. The layers are attached only at the top of the piece, leaving them to float freely with any breeze. They are presented on bamboo hangers. The silk is soft, colourful and luminous.

Layers of images create impossible realities. These are The Revelations.

I combine two images in each piece to create something entirely new and to play with ideas of place, time and scale. These are imagined landscapes, windows into an entirely fictitious world where children of 50 years ago play in the present, where taxidermy animals are returned to the wild, where Venetian cityscapes appear on a backdrop of Pender Island.

Layers of materials, of images, of ideas, of memories. Delving deep to discover that which is buried, forgotten. Surfacing with all that has been found.

The supple, free flowing, spontaneous silk pieces contrast beautifully with the frozen-in-time photographic pieces.