ROBIN LAWS FIELD ... explorations with a threaded needle (artworks below).
A Passion for Art ...
“After several feeble attempts at abstraction
in paint I began looking for abstraction around me. I became fascinated by the colour
and texture I saw in surfaces. Floors,
pavements, walls, fences, rusting freight cars, tree trunks, doors, shutters,
footprints in the sand all got a second look.
Exquisite little bits of abstract art surrounded me crying out to be
photographed and taken into the studio for a mixed-media (but mostly threaded
needle) interpretation.”
Robin Laws Field
Robin Laws Field
Throughout
her travels around the world, Robin Laws Field became fascinated by the colour
and texture of surfaces; everything from floors, pavements, walls, fences,
rusting freight cars, tree trunks, doors, shutters, footprints in the sand all
got a second look. Exquisite little bits of abstract art surrounded the
artist crying out to be photographed and taken into her studio for a
mixed-media (but mostly threaded needle)
interpretation.
Laws Field notes that “colour and texture pull me in and keep me up at night until I’ve figured out how to make them mine; and then how to picture them so that others can see what I see, be it beautiful, ugly, political, sentimental, funny or just a scintillating juxtaposition of bits and pieces that somehow please. And, because much of my inspiration has arrived in places not my own there is always a memory of place attached.”
The memories are those of the artist, but the visuals that kick-start each are at the WSAG for all to view starting March 20, 2012
Laws Field notes that “colour and texture pull me in and keep me up at night until I’ve figured out how to make them mine; and then how to picture them so that others can see what I see, be it beautiful, ugly, political, sentimental, funny or just a scintillating juxtaposition of bits and pieces that somehow please. And, because much of my inspiration has arrived in places not my own there is always a memory of place attached.”
The memories are those of the artist, but the visuals that kick-start each are at the WSAG for all to view starting March 20, 2012
