Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Beautiful Anatomy

Human Anatomy has fascinated me for as long as I can remember and I have studied anatomy both as an artist and from a more medical perspective in my health science studies.

In my recent work I have been exploring the beauty, fragility, strength and mystery of our anataomy. 


Mystery

Fragility

Strength

Beauty

These are a series of four. They are all approximately 1m x 1m. 
The background fabric is either a heavy weight cotton or a linen. The female forms are drawn from life. 


The Lacey spines are embroidered thread. They are drawn from careful and extensive studies of spines. In designing the spines I am seeking to capture both a decorative quality and to use it to convey a sense, not only of the fascinating and beautiful structure of the spine but also of the lace like bone structure and the way that it has organically grown to create the beautiful, intricate forms that make up the vertebrae. The space behind the spines which is not so obvious in the images is to me an important aspect of these works.