Bear Portraits
Making standalone two dimensional textile works can be like making snapshots of ideas. A step in the process of idol-making. I have a set of three faces as textile pictures which I have just completed. They will help to bring some longstanding ideas together into a narrative in some larger works. The god faces, ghosts, masks, which as a series developed out of proposal sketches for sculptures. The faces of children, cartoon characters, dolls. Studies I make regularly for source material. The faces, heads and shapes of bears. Studies for forms to make proposals for three dimensional textile works.
