Margaret Wilmore
BROKEN LANDSCAPE
Inspiration
It was the view from a Norfolk cottage which inspired me to make this quilt. A field of ripening corn fringed with wildflowers gently sloped down to the sea; yet there was a proposal for housing development on this land.
The landscape would be broken up, the natural world suppressed under layers of stone.
I used my own photographs to portray a ghostly world where wildflowers seek to reach the light, where corn may never be harvested again. Piecing is in the form of bricks and paving slabs depicting both the fragmentation and formalisation of the landscape.
Materials and techniques
Photography: I have layered, blended and manipulated my photographs using Photoshop and Snapseed
Image Transfer: I printed the altered images onto Egyptian cotton and Jacquard Inkjet cotton sheets. Owing to its size, the coloured image was commercially printed.
Contact printing: I printed the image of Cow Parsley onto linen using block printing ink.
Gelatin printing: Acrylic paint was used to print on fabric using a leaf stencil.
Machine quilting: The complete piece was quilted ‘in the ditch.’
Hand stitching: The coloured landscape was embroidered by hand.
Free motion quilting on soluble fabric
Click on image to enlarge
It was the view from a Norfolk cottage which inspired me to make this quilt. A field of ripening corn fringed with wildflowers gently sloped down to the sea; yet there was a proposal for housing development on this land.
The landscape would be broken up, the natural world suppressed under layers of stone.
I used my own photographs to portray a ghostly world where wildflowers seek to reach the light, where corn may never be harvested again. Piecing is in the form of bricks and paving slabs depicting both the fragmentation and formalisation of the landscape.
Materials and techniques
Photography: I have layered, blended and manipulated my photographs using Photoshop and Snapseed
Image Transfer: I printed the altered images onto Egyptian cotton and Jacquard Inkjet cotton sheets. Owing to its size, the coloured image was commercially printed.
Contact printing: I printed the image of Cow Parsley onto linen using block printing ink.
Gelatin printing: Acrylic paint was used to print on fabric using a leaf stencil.
Machine quilting: The complete piece was quilted ‘in the ditch.’
Hand stitching: The coloured landscape was embroidered by hand.
Free motion quilting on soluble fabric
Click on image to enlarge