I have a rather short attention span so life gets dull unless I mix things up a bit from time to time. I periodically sign up to try something completely new, not knowing where it will lead and not really caring if it leads nowhere at all.
Recently I signed up for an online collage making course with an organisation called Fibre Arts Take Two. The course is run by a lovely lady called Cordula Kagemann. It is online and on demand so I have been able to dip in whenever I want and I have the rest of my life to play the various modules over and over if I feel so inclined.
The course has really opened my mind. I have not finished it yet. I have got stuck on image transfer. It is an extraordinary way of adding interest to a collage and I am hooked.
I have just completed a triptych using these butterfly images and I have started wondering how the entire process of creating layered interest like this might translate to clay.
It is early days and I have not fired anything yet. Being clay, I have had to change the order of application so I have added the cut outs before firing but will add the images later on but I think this might have a place in my work somewhere in the future. I rather hope so!
Of course I shall continue to make my usual work as well but I think this might creep in from time to time as a diversion or something more. Time will tell . . . . .
Bridget Macklin 