Colour Charts
A joint collection of pieces responding to the distinctive colour palettes of place. From a childhood love of paint colour charts, twill block weaves provide a perfect structure to explore the many tones produced from blending warp and weft.
Hem: Handwoven
Hope Valley, England
the light in Staithes, North Yorkshire is unique. Inspiring artists for centuries, this village has a colour palette all of its own. This wrap was my response to returning to the village after lockdown.
exploring visual blending in plain weave to produce a n almost pixelated impression of the village. Woven in very fine Pima cotton left over from commercial textile production.
During lockdown, when visits to the sea were impossible, I created this blanket to remember. Woven in mill end lambswool yarn in a doubleweave block draft, 10 shades of blue and grey blend to create unique blocks of colour surrounded by a frame of flecked grey to suggest the sea defences that keep us safe. The design is reversed on the other side of the blanket.
A portable reminded of the sea, a colour chart to the waves around our shores, woven in mill-end merino yarn.
The listening station looms on the horizon of Fylingdales Moor on a grey august day, when the heather is a riot of colour. Handwoven twill block weave in mill end merino yarn.
Ewden Reservoir is surrounded by dramatic moorland and this cotton version of my colour chart picks up the deep olives and purples of the moor in the height of August.