Week Two

The photographs gathered from the trip have been used as inspiration for paintings. It has become apparent that my interest is in the beauty of fragments. On my visit to the Gardens at Park Guell I took many photographs which drew my interesting within the beauty of broken tiles. So this week I have had my photographs printed in order to start a series of paintings such as the ones below where I have painted my own snippet of the photograph in order to create pattern.

From my interest in these broken tiles collated from park Guell I decided it would be a good idea to look at other forms or visuals including tiles to give myself more imagery. Therefor decided to take a day to visit Jackfield tile museum, Ironbridge where I found interesting patterns, finding that most of the imagery related were that of floral. These tiles weren't inspiring ideas much at all and I felt I could not use them in relation to my own work at this time.  

I also later started looking at fashion in relation to mosaics and embroidery when I found garments created by Dolce and Gabbana at the 2013 London fashion week which became of interest. These garments are inspired by Sicily where Stephano Gabanna originated from and the collection is aimed at capturing all the amazing places seen. This video is from London fashion week 2013 where it show the whole collection of garments.