Anne Carpenter SGFA – A Visual Feast
Fabric Collage Pictures
24th May to 24th June
p/view 25th May 7-9pm
Anne trained in Pottery and Pottery- modelling and now although she uses fabrics, her aim is to bridge the boundaries between Craft and Art . The fabrics are used as areas of colour and tone in the way she would normally use paint, and the thread is used as a drawing tool. Anne has always recycled , using scraps of fabrics that have been discarded by others .
The results are achieved by ‘Painting with Fabric’. The pictures are strongly three-dimensional in appearance, by judicious use of net and tulle. Although the general impression is of precise realism, the very medium of fabric ensures that on closer inspection the finish is in fact quite abstract. In these works there is no drawing or stitchery; it is not embroidery. All materials are hand cut using scissors and pinking shears and fixed by PVA adhesive.
Tutored courses by Anne Carpenter are a distillation of her experience and development as an artist and relate to it in a very personal way.
Anne Carpenter has worked with fabrics for very many years, starting with small ‘fashion’ collages which she sold through Liberty and Heal’s in London. Her technique has developed to encompass architectural themes, animals and ‘still life’ subjects, with figurative and abstract interpretations of fruits and vegetables. The local landscape has long been an inspiration.
Anne has sold extensively to the USA and in Europe and exhibited in, amongst other places, Paris and in the European Parliament Buildings in Strasbourg, twice, and Brussels. She works mainly to commission; ‘portraits’ of houses and animals and personal souvenirs being major subject areas.