Honorable Mention
2017 / Home Interior Products
/ Professional
Silhouette Blue
SILHOUETTE… inspired by my love of nature and
from childhood memories of the Forest and
Lakes in and around Wales. The
powerful imagery has always stayed with me,
landscape of towering trees soaring above me,
their branches reaching the sky, while I
remain below.
Like familiar friends, they each have their
own stories to tell as I listen to the wind
talking to them……bold strong Black Branches
are softened with rich colorful canvases
Blue, Gold, Silver and White….. Textures
interlock in subtle shades of silks echoing
patterns crossing over them by the clouds.
Perspectives are changed as the distant
views become more alive, raised in silks in
the foreground, harmonizing with the low pile
height of the trees. This creates the look of
an ancient Tapestry which somehow evokes the
memory of the past in a modern striking
design.
The design is woven in Persian Weave in 12 x
12 knot using wool and artsilk. The size is
9 feet by 12 feet.
Both wool and silk are woven together. To
create different layers, the wool was oxidized
to a pile height of zero mm and silk oxidized
to 0.5mm.
Ageing wool to look like an older tapestry
with a modern twist of modern design with a
hidden small background pattern that starts
off as a full motif but breaks as it blends
with the branches of the tree.
Photo Credit: Ayka Design
