Textile Artist Mandy Pattullo has  for a long time loved the Cornish painter  Alfred Wallis’s naïve paintings of little ships, harbours and seascapes . These little scenes are familiar to anyone visiting St Ives but they can also provide inspiration for a seaside themed collage.  For this course you will work with a muddy coloured palette of fabrics which fit in with Wallis’s aesthetic and we will use these to build up a collage based on his paintings. Mandy will provide inspiration  in terms of drawings and the idea is to capture the “spirit” of this fisherman painter.  This is a textile collage course with purposefully naive outcomes. You will work on a  small scale using rough edged applique and Mandy will suggest stitch details which will bring your picture alive.
Students to provide:
A sewing kit – scissors, lots of pins and needles
Pictures.Please bring any visual material you have on the paintings of Alfred Wallis. You may have a book but otherwise print some image from the internet that appeal to you.
Fabrics. You don’t need large pieces – A4 size plenty big enough.  Please bring a muddy palette of cotton fabrics – dark and light greys, beiges, browns but also some small bits of  black, white and sea and sky blues. Look at Mandy’s stitched samples for reference. You might want to knock the blues back a little by dipping them in tea to dull them.
Bring sewing threads  and stranded  embroidery threads to match this palette of Alfred colours
Mandy will provide:
Pieces of blanket as a base on which you can work.
A sharing basket of painted fabrics and  textures to dip in and supplement the fabric you will have brought with you.
A handout of Alfred Wallis design motifs.