Alfred

Textile Artist Mandy Pattullo has for a long time loved the Cornish painter Alfred Wallis’s naïve paintings of little ships, harbours and seascapes . These little scenes are familiar to anyone visiting St Ives but they can also provide inspiration for a seaside themed collage. For this course you will work with a muddy coloured palette of fabrics which fit in with Wallis's aesthetic and we will use these to build up a collage based on his paintings. Mandy will provide inspiration in terms of drawings and the idea is to capture the “spirit” of this fisherman painter. This is a textile collage course with purposefully naive outcomes. You will work on a small scale using rough edged applique and Mandy will suggest stitch details which will bring your picture alive. Students to provide: A sewing kit - scissors, lots of pins and needles Pictures.Please bring any visual material you have on the paintings of Alfred Wallis. You may have a book but otherwise print some image from the internet that appeal to you. Fabrics. You don’t need large pieces - A4 size plenty big enough. Please bring a muddy palette of cotton fabrics - dark and light greys, beiges, browns but also some small bits of black, white and sea and sky blues. Look at Mandy’s stitched samples for reference.