I recently had the absolute pleasure of attending a lecture with textile artist Michael Brennand-Wood famous for his national & international reputation for innovative & imaginative combinations of ideas & media! His interests of putting contrasting materials together, absolutely mirror my own! The pieces he creates can be read on many levels, They can be wonderful, visual forms - full of colour and different materials; they can also be read as a story on a more intellectual level. This particular piece of work is one of thirty-five pieces in the collection 'Stars Underfoot' 

 

For this project Michael teamed up with a florist & photographer. Th

e aim of the project was to question the relationship between flowers and textiles? The flowers were used as a mater

ial, rather than an image, He told us how he would play for hours re-arranging the flowers in order to create the final photographed image. Aside from the wonderful colours another part of the 'Stars Underfoot' project that interests me, is the way Micheal would spend time making something so tactile, full of textures & so aesthetically pleasing for it to be photographed as flat. This is something i also embody as a designer!