Tag: Fabric Sculpture

  • How I Started Working In Textile Collage

    How I Started Working In Textile Collage

    One of my first soft sculptures, the Great Grey Owl

    I didn’t always work in textile collage. I trained as a Graphic Designer. I spent three years learning about fonts, kerning, grids and prepping files for print. It was okay, I was good at it. But I really missed the tactile feeling of making something in real life. 

    In my last year of my bDes I decided to switch my major to illustration and focus on watercolour paintings. Spending all my days working in front of a computer didn’t seem appealing. As an illustrator I would be painting and drawing and creating work for art directors. As my final year was coming to an end and I was about to graduate, I had two classes that sparked my interest in sculpture. In one class I created girly analogue video game characters for a gaming company (they were not well received :P). Another class I worked with a local Catholic School Board to create relief sculptures for the exterior of a new high school. 

    Those classes gave me the confidence and permission to try something new. 

    I went back to my 80’s child crafting roots and broke out the wire, fabric, hot glue and styrofoam and started creating these cute graphic sculptures. I progressed into bigger more complex pieces and realized my home was too small to store all these new soft sculptures. Out of the desire to save space I decided that I would take this style 2D, and work flat.  

    My first large scale textile collage, Group of Ostrich

    Collaging with fabric felt very natural to me. I love combining different colours, patterns and textures of fabric in interiors so this new method of working felt like combining my art and interior design worlds together. The large scale and dramatic colour I was now able to play with felt like an extension of the watercolour style I had developed. It took me until this year to figure out how to bring the mediums of watercolour and textiles together but I am happy with the results and can’t wait to see what comes out of this new methodology.

  • Whale Mobile

    whale-mobile

    A good friend of mine has given birth to a beautiful little baby boy. As a gift I have made her a whale mobile. I am really quite pleased with how it turned out, hopefully she is too! Click here to see the full sculpture.

    whale-mobile-2

  • Goldfish

    orange pattern goldfish

    A new sculpture I just finished. I was originally thinking a mobile, but i like the plinth, it feels more solid but still has some nice movement. Click here to see the full sculpture or click on the article to see close ups of the other two fish.

    yellow goldfish

    orange goldfish

  • Peahen Fabric Sculpture

    Peahen head

    Some details of a new fabric sculpture I just finished. I’ve been really inspired by the peahen (the female peacock) lately. I really love how they only have a patch of teal on their necks that blends into the browns and greys of the rest of their bodies. Click here to see the full sculpture.

    Peahen Fabric Sculpture Neck Detail

  • The Mother of All Dandelions


    I don’t know if you can tell but this dandelion is about 5 feet tall and two feet in diameter. It sure was a crazy project requiring more and more seed pods to be made (there are 150 seeds on this monster) but I love the way it turned out!!!
    This beautiful beast is for sale, she just wont fit any where in my small little house. I envision her in front of a window in the corner of a room with the light filtering through the seeds, contact me if your interested.

  • Charity Fabric Sculpture

    Fabric and wood sculpture of birds

    I just finished this sculpture today. It’s my contribution to a charity auction this weekend for The United Way. Inspire people to bid high my pretties!