Jack Roberts - Marbles

My latest series of work as a contemporary textile artist has seen me explore my extensive collections of inanimate objects such as beer mats, stamps and marbles, through the mediums of photography and textiles.

These resulting works represent my personal collection of marbles expressed through heavy machine embroidery.  This unique approach to the exploration of repetition focuses on the juxtaposition of the negative space of the dominant marbles, and draws the eye to the blending collection of marbles beneath.

This series illustrates two of my greatest passions collectables and textiles. The resulting body of work provides an intriguing surface pattern combining intricate detailing with the contrasting simplicity of white space.


Feel free to email me on - art.addict@live.co.uk

Rebecca Barrs - My Universe

Rebecca Barrs draws inspiration from science and nature to create fine art photography. She likes experimentation to be a key factor in her photography to keep it exciting and individual.

An undiscovered world, a thousand theories to describe its origins. The universe is an interesting place; but sometimes we forget it's there due to our own lives on Earth. When looking at a night sky, it is hard to imagine what is really out there, we can only rely on secondary information. What if we could go to space and see the planets? How would they look?

For my project, I wanted to explore my interpretation of the universe and its planets through my imagination. I researched various illustrations of the universe from textbooks to astronomy magazines to help me to create the planets. 

I wanted to focus on the textures and colours within the planets and to do this I used various foods and liquids including swede, red meat, food colouring, mushrooms, vegetable oil, coffee, salt and pepper.

I combined them all together to create my own little universe.

You can find more of my work at

http://rebeccabarrs.blogspot.com/

or feel free to Email

rebecca.barrs@hotmail.co.uk

Thankyou.