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THE CREATIVE CONCEPTS, PRINCIPALS AND TECHNIQUES

INFLUENCES

As an oil painter and textile artist, Jae has been careful not to be directly influenced by other artists. For the artist to produce truly original work and find his or her distinctive voice, it is essential to develop a personal method of expressing their own feelings and responses to the world. There are however, artists that Jae admires for their creativity and bravery such as Picasso, Matisse and the Catalan artist Antoni Tapies

INSPIRATION

This comes from the Jae's world surrounding her. Her sketches often form the starting points from which she develops and expands her ideas. More recently her inspiration  comes from her personal reactions to everyday situations. She is enjoying the challenge of interpreting, in an abstracted way, her feelings, actions or visual stimuli on a daily basis.

MATERIALS

Her base fabric is usually unbleached calico. If she is painting it will be prepared to take the oil paint. If however she is printing and using fabric inks then she uses a fabric prepared to take the pigments.

TECHNIQUES 

Her fabrics are always painted or dyed. The screen printing inks (Sericol) are often applied after the fabric has been manipulated and stitched. The dyes are applied with a palette knife or sponge roller. These fabrics are are then applied to the oil painted surfaces which have been stitched before the application of paint.

COLOUR AND TEXTURE

Jae uses a very restricted palette and selects colours that will underline the feelings and ideas that she wants to express in a piece of work. The prestitched fabric areas provide the texture which she balances carefully with plainer areas.

STITCHING

Simple hand stitches are Jae's favourite method of working. They are minimal but can provide strong accents in the work. Free machine straight stitching is another weapon in her armoury but it is used as a functional tool, holding pieces of fabric together. She very rarely use stitches decoratively and have an aversion to glittery threads unless they are essential to the underlying ideas of the piece of work.