GOTHIC WEAVE II by Julia Engelhardt

Silk, nylon 

42 x 62 cm

36 x 22 cm

£595

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Artist Statement

I have always loved textiles but came to weaving later in life. A career in arts publishing and exhibitions has given me a rich image bank of colours, shapes, textures in my head, feeding into my work. I have been influenced by the painter Paul Klee, teacher at the Bauhaus, whose work I loved even as a child; and by textile artist Sheila Hicks, whose ‘minimes’ - small tapestry-type weaves - came to me as a revelation in 2013. I see what I do as a form of painting or sketching, with individual threads as lines. The shaft looms I use provide a tensioned ‘canvas’ in the warp necessary to construct a cloth by running the weft threads across at an angle. I allow yarns to breathe weaving very loosely, thus softening or dissolving traditional angularity of warp and weft intersections and allowing for natural movement, fluidity, expression which are all key to my work. I call my pieces ‘weavescapes’, as in ‘landscape’, ‘mindscape’, ‘soundscape’. Much of my subject matter is connected to nature which is full of fluctuating shapes and irregular formations such trees, the sea, clouds etc. Many other pieces express moods or common expressions – I love playing with words, too. Architecture, rhythm, music also feed naturally into my medium of ‘constructed textile’, with titles gently leading the viewer to where I am coming from with each piece.