Stripes, 2020

This series of pieces was made during the Covid19 lockdowns of 2020. Having to juggle home-schooling of my children and work commitments, like so many other parents, time was restricted. During the many walks to a nearby field and wood, I was struck by the the shapes of the leaves against the sky and the idea of the ‘space between things’. Sometimes the space actually stands out and comes into the foreground, whilst the object travels into the background. The negative and positive are related, influence each other and even exchange places.

This idea led on to lots of drawings - mainly of circles and lines. Lines developed into stripes and stripes remained there for a while and were translated into stripy pieces of jewellery.

Some time later I researched images of stripes - somewhere I had seen something stripy that had really impressed me. Then I found this image: the tent room at Schloss Charlottenhof, Potsdam which I visited as a teenager. There it was - exactly what I had had in mind. Those blue and white stripes, thin and thick.

During the same period I also continued on from my previous collection in which I had used HDPE plastic from recycled milk bottles. I experimented with raised silver shapes and combinations with stripy patterns.