Staithes Group inspired Quilt - Development

(Above and below) Playing with form, colour and layout inStaithes inspired by the Staithes Group

 
REPETITION -  Different Staithes Artists use the same focal points or quircks of the village and the uniformity (and also the oxymoronic uniqueness) of each of the houses makes them great for editing together and just generaly playing with

(above) My beloved sketchbook with the original design for my 'water colour' quilt (by this point anyone who knew anything about quilting was worried about me but I was too in love with the idea to give up on it)

 

The final designs for my two screen printed fabrics and in true Staithes Group fashion it's ....(drum roll)... houses and boats but there's something about the angles and fall of the lines that I'm really pleased with.

  

Along side the screen prints I added a few lino prints and some silk painting. Somewhere along the line the area that started out as sand ended up pink, maybe it was that sunset again.

A collection of Staithes Group which helped inspire my quilt (mostly contemporary artists)

Ian Burke (above) and Lucy Wilson (below) see the ever present fishing boats as very different objects. Burke's approach seems more worn and the boats are hard-worked while Wilson's seem sereen, soft and romantic.

also Lucy Wilson, and oh look it's those boats again

John Spence Ingall (1850-1936) - Runswick by Moonlight (can anyone spot a particulr colour theme in attracted to? :p)

Robert Shaw (above, you can tell which ones) - A completely different way of looking at the architecture in a tiny fishing village but captures something about the place perfectly (and it's a really fun style to work in)