40/40 Colour Concept

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"40/40 Colour Concepts "
Enamel on Copper & Manipulated Textiles
60x40cm
Copyright Ruth Ball & Mary Brodie
This is a collaborative piece combining enamel with manipulated textiles. This work along with a collection of other enamel works will be on exhibition from the 6th of Septemeber at the Kenkervero Craft center in Finland.
STATEMENT for 40/40:
The primary motivation and common link in the work of Ruth Ball and Mary Brodie is COLOUR. Colour is the most alluring of all the design elements. We respond to colour more than line, shape, form or composition on an emotional gut level.

In this piece, 40/40 colour concepts, colour is explored within the two very different mediums of enamel and textile through rich contrasts, vibrant hues and textural surfaces.
40 pieces of enamel align with 40 pieces of fabricated textile. The square grid format is a vehicle for the juxtaposition of the two different surfaces, and is also a nodding reference to colour charts, embracing a full spectrum of colours.

The abstract imagery within each of the individual pieces is influenced by more personal responses to colour, evocative of the colours in nature colour moods of the landscape, and ephemeral memories of time and place. (The light over fields, the ripples in water, the golden hues of autumn etc.) The many combinations of colour unify each thought and concept, forming a piece which hopefully has gone beyond the process of it’s making, allowing the viewer to seek their own point of reference.

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ElizT said...

very beautiful.