Good Idea Hunting

Art Tour Weekend 2 has been and gone, and I was going to write all about it, but then I changed my mind.

When I began this blog, it was with the intention of writing about my work, and though describing Art Tour definitely falls into that category, I want to explain how and why I do what I do.

I am a visual sort of person. The one who always has a camera primed and at the ready. This is how I find my inspiration. Felt is my medium, so I can't just strap an easel across my back, pick up a paint box and head for the hills. I have to bring my ideas home and work on them indoors.

I am always on the lookout for interesting colours, textures and shapes.




Often a photograph will be destined for use, only to be superseded by something entirely different. More frequently, I will spot some small detail in a photo I have taken almost by accident, like the way water becomes almost solid and glasslike as it ripples across a barely submerged stone.



Or I will be surprised by how many shades of green there are, even when it's raining.



Sometimes it is simply a case of find a subject, and make it into felt.


At other times, I compose elements of a photograph into my preferred image.



However I begin, I am constantly surprised by what I end up with.