DEBBIE SMYTH

Debbie Smyth is a textile artist with a very unique and easily identifiable technique. She wraps thread around pins as a drawing medium to create large installations of scenes. Follow the link to her blog on the right for more information. She challenges our expectations and concepts of what a 'line' is and I love her. She's unique and original and keeps her work simple; black and white with silver pins. It's a recipe for success!I stared to focus on isolating and outlining the birds, at the same time as beginning to experiment with assotone printing onto laminating pouches, which works surprising well! The threads I have actually melt a bit and go discoloured when run through the laminator, but I think the pieces work well without being heated (as the piece above shows). The pouches are slightly cloudy and nicely dull the black thread.

I also like the combination of the thread and spray painting, the cleanness and rigidity of the stencilled area presents a nice contrast to the free-ness and messiness of the loose threads. More work to come, both of these could be expanded, maybe working out of my book on pieces in boxes!