i am soaring_skylark_arts
- name:
- Rebecca Goldthorpe
- handle:
- @soaring_skylark_arts
- media
- painting / photography / textile / visual arts / illustration / craft / printmaking
- location:
- nottingham, uk
- bio:
- A wanderer and gatherer inspired by liminal spaces, nature and the gentle beauty of our English countryside. Native botanicals. Sustainable and recycled. History and heritage. Disabled.
latest work
Symington Factory - Exploring Cotton From Field To Garment
I'm exploring the history behind the corsets and bodices made at Market Harborough's Symington Factory. I'm particularly interested in the fibres used to make the garments and the souls who worked here, to cloth thousands more over the many years it was open. Early next year I'll be showing my work in a group exhibition, along with other members of @second_turning_textile_gp
Symington Exhibition - Research & Sketching Phase
I'm exploring the history behind the corsets and bodices made at Market Harborough's Symington Factory. I'm particularly interested in the fibres used to make the garments and the souls who worked here, to cloth thousands more over the many years it was open. Early next year I'll be showing my work in a group exhibition, along with other members of @second_turning_textile_gp
Field Finds
A photo of some of my field finds with typography on them. I use my field finds to inspire my art making - to draw from, to stitch from (see my other sub here); to print from, to emboss directly from - to generally draw inspiration from.
Field Find
Signing an embroidered artwork. Embroidered with vintage cotton thread on a deep blue and white to echo the pattern on a found on a ceramic sherd - a field find from a walk along the Robin Hood Way beside my home. Extra texture details were made using simple needle perforations.
Seed Stitching
The past few weeks I've been duplicating tiny seed stitches. I've lost count of how many I've attached to this calico background. Hundreds? Definitely. Maybe more than a thousand. My fingertips certainly believe so anyway!
Sycamore Keys
I'm holding tweezers to delicately pick-up sycamore keys. This method avoids me anything the wet printing ink and leaves me with crisp impressions of the natural objects.