The source of this work was a 17th century platter in the V&A. I was particularly attracted to it by the central motif of a woman playing a stringed instrument. She wears a striped gown and I knew immediately that I could do something with those stripes – see drawing 1). The other drawings trace the development of ideas from one to another.
Drawings 2 and 3 – these illustrate how the same drawing can be changed by moving it around and/or filling different spaces with colour.
Drawing 4 started out with 3 open squares divided into strips. Each square was then imposed over a different arrangement of stripes before colouring each ’strip’ alternately. This may sound complicated and I must admit contains a little cheating.
Drawing 5 (detail) used pencil crayons as a change from felt tips used on the other drawings.
Drawing 6 is a further variation on drawings 2 and 3 and has ended up as a strange exotic flower.
Drawing 7 for some unknown reason suggests to me a hidden landscape – it certainly contains” paving stones” .
Drawi ng 8 suggests a design for the back of a garment or a collar.
