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Monthly Archives: July 2014

Spanish Pilgrimage

29 Tuesday Jul 2014

Posted by carolnaylortextiles in Drawings, Inspirations, stitched textiles, Textile Art

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Art, drawing, embroidery, landscape, Spain, stitch, thread

After a hectic summer of exhibiting and teaching, not to mention family occasions, we leave soon for our annual pilgrimage to Spain. Certain places and areas have always offered inspiration. The changing light, the colours, the different crops each year, when sunflowers previously grown turn into fields of lavender, distant mountain ranges that are blue, grey, rose, depending on the weather conditions are all things I look  for. I make drawings, never quite sure which ones will lead to a textile, and often return to earlier sketchbooks which are like diaries for me. Here are some images from a previous visit taken from the wonderful landscape of the central plateau, the Meseta

This is near Covarrubias in Castille, one of our favourite places. Lavender grows next to the burnt sierra soil and  golden wheatfields

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This is a drawing taken from here,

. As you can see the farmhouse doesnt get into my drawing on this occasion!

Landscape with lavender, drawing

 

–and here is a machine embroidery that found a new home last week! The end result is never the same as the starting point, as once I’m on my sewing machine anything can happen, but it wouldn’t take shape without the knowledge gained from looking and drawing

Shades of Lavender, 30x24cm

Thomas Hardy and the sea

01 Tuesday Jul 2014

Posted by carolnaylortextiles in Drawings, Inspirations, poetry, stitched textiles, Textile Art

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Art, Charmouth Bay, drawing, Oddicombe Bay, stitch, textiles, Thomas Hardy

My last post was about the way in which the poetry of Robert Frost had influenced my approach to making textiles. This entry shows you a few ideas and pieces that have come from other sources. “Oh the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea” These words are from “On Beeny Cliff” by Thomas Hardy. I actually studied him many years ago at school and this poem and its description of sea, cliff, love and life never left me. The sea has always played a part in my life, living by or near it, watching its moods and colours, crossing it, drawing it.

The following textiles are from a series I made a few years ago. The little drawings are from a visit to Cromer in Norfolk (eastern UK) last week. My sketchbook always goes with me, it is my diary and I never know whether I will use my drawings or whether they simply serve as a reminder of places visited and observed.

Charmouth Bay 2008 (found a home in Ireland!)

Charmouth Bay-C Naylor

Oddicombe Bay 2008, currently on view at Primavera Gallery, Cambridge. A departure in terms of colour for me, inspired by the amazing red cliffs and sands there.

Naylor C Oddicombe Bay

Little seascape, Cromer, Norfolk, 2014

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Cromer, seascape,rain in the air 2014

Cromer001

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