Maggie Ayres is an artist who continues to inspire my work and I love her combination of mixed media art and textiles. Her artworks contain numerous layers of colour, texture, light and contrast.
“[She] creates unique artwork, using a variety of materials, including hand painted silks, applied fibres, photographic images, dyed velvets, stitching and found objects such as driftwood and sea-glass.
Her artwork explores the ranges of emotion that continually overlap and pull in all directions. She seeks to express her conflict between the desire to please and be all things to all people, and a backlash against that need to conform to expectations.”
'Deconstruction' - Connection Exhibition 2011
'Residual' - Connection Exhibition 2011
'Cold Center' - Connection Exhibition 2011
Images are taken from artworks at ‘Connection’ exhibition at Castle Douglas Art Gallery.
www.maggieayres.co.uk
http://maggieayres.blogspot.com/
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Hi Helen,
Just discovered your blog post about my wife – it’s lovely to read people inspired by her work :)
Just one small thing, though, her web address is maggiesayres.co.uk, not .com
With warmth,
Kim :)
Oh thank you for noticing that i’ll ammend it straight away!
Your wife is extremely talented and I couldn’t wait to share her work on my site.
Thanks for stopping by Kim!
Helen
I love her work, I did a whole Textile project inspired by Ayres last term, she is just so talented, amazing.
And now looking at your work is just inspiring me a million more times for my new textiles project for college. – So thank you to the both of you.
I had artist block till about an hour ago till i found your posts.
THANKYOU SO MUCH :D
Lloyd – 17 Manchester.
Wow Lloyd, thank you so much. That’s such a lovely comment!
I’m glad you feel inspired. I felt the same way when I first came Maggie Ayre’s work. She’s an amazingly talented lady.
I studied textiles in college and absolutely loved it. Good look with your new project.
I’d love to hear how you get on.
Helen.