"Flowerghosts is an ongoing project that has been intensely and authentically produced in my garden and my studio over the past few years. These flowers are caught permanently in pixels in a new range of designs that unite digital technology with organic colour."
What is Flowerghosts?
Flowerghosts is a story told in two voices. Initially, with a hammer, I use wild and cultivated flowers to create original pieces of fabric artwork. This process is chaotic, rustic, organic and slow. It belongs to the summer. Then as the seasons change, there is a shift in tone and mood as I digitalize and re-edit this original work to create both botanical and abstract patterns that can be reprinted and applied by transfer to many different surfaces.
Flowerghosts is the name the process gave me as I watched my first prints fade on the untreated fabric. It is an homage to the way the natural colours evolve over time and it encapsulates the transience of working with hues that are dramatically subject to the effects of time and light.
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Versatile Ceramic Tile – Printing Pansies: Rya #4
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Versatile Ceramic Tile – Printing Pansies: Rya #3
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Versatile Ceramic Tile – Printing Pansies: Rya #2
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Versatile Ceramic Tile – Printing Pansies: Rya #1
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Cwtch Facecloth – Printing Pansies: Kimono #6
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Cwtch Facecloth – Printing Pansies: Kimono #5
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Cwtch Facecloth – Blousy Ones: Rya #1
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Cwtch Facecloth – Printing Pansies: Heartsease #1
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Petals in Print: Reimagining Flower Pounding
Tataki Zome is the practice of extracting natural pigments directly from flowers onto another surface with a hammer. When I began (2018) it was an archaic, niche process, largely sidelined by the natural dye community because the colours are unreliable. However, since Covid reinvigorated our creativity, it has become an increasingly popular activity worldwide because creating botanical prints in this way is attuned to the popular move towards nature, wild experience and sustainable living. I see the benefits for wellbeing everytime I workshop: The process is soothingly repetitive, generates its own rhythmic tattoo of sound, is instantaneously creative, intoxicatingly fragrant and belongs inherently to the land.
