I am currently studying a foundation course in art and design. I chose to study art and design instead of textiles as I wanted to take my self out of my comfort zone and widen my skills as well as incorporate this into my textile work. I have always had an interest in textiles and am always looking to develop that interest further.

The reason i chose this course is the flexibility of the overall structure which will allow me to express my ideas freely. There will also be opportunities to gain experience in specialized areas to broaden my horizons and expertise. I am very excited to be apart of the many work shops on offer, which will allow me to experiment with new pieces. The tutor support would be extremely beneficial for flourishing artist.

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Textile piece outside of my foundation course.

inspired by alice in wonderland and Philip Treacy's designs

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Experimentation from the invisible cities project. the idea of stairs was used.

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Invisible cites project responding to the book by Italo Calvino. my inspiration for this piece was a chapter from the book explaining the different relationships of each household to another by hanging up different colour string from building to building. i tried to use this idea for my work.

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Landscape project. playing around with the shapes of leaves and the different textures.

(i used corduroy for the background.)

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developing from my freehand interior architectural drawings (Page 4) experimenting with adding text to my drawings.

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Given a certain word taking from a piece of text, i had to trying and create an image for that one word. i took the word 'used' in its literal term and enlarge the word, i also thought about how something that is 'used' is an object or word that is repeatedly used, so i played with the idea of repetition of the word and sewed it together with string giving it the look of falling apart.

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using felt in and photocopying different pieces trying to recreate natural shapes and responding to page 1 photographs.

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100 paintings in an hour. (First two pages)

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freehand interior architectural drawings, while trying to capture as much detail as possible, after first set i drawing i tried introducing colour in bold shapes.

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Experimenting with colour, and text also the texture of the book pages and cutting out certain parts i also like how the chapters where set out on a page, so i tried create a door, or box type effect.

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Book project i did. i played around with creating an image for the title of the book and experimenting with the overall structure of the book. i then tried wrapping it with layers of its own pages, and then (seen in the third page) I Separated the pages to bulk out the overall book, it then spread out allowing it to stand on its own accord.

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Experimenting with angles and viewpoint in the photographs i then tried out different ways to capture the trees in different mediums.