Lesley Richmond

As my theme is growth and decay I have recently been focusing more on the decay than the growth however for my new artist I am going to be more focused on the growth side of the theme.

This week I looked at Lesley Richmond.


Lesley photographs trees, focusing on the intricacy of the branch structures and then prints these images on cloth then using heat removes certain areas of the background; leaving the structure of the tree.

Lesley's work really inspired me as she created pieces of work that would make me question how she would do it. I was inspired by her work as she creates her work based on the natural forms and textures that trees consist of. I also like the facts that she changes the surface of the fabric rather than imposing a design on the surface of the cloth. She uses chemical processes to change the surface structure of the fibre into an illusion of organic decay.


Throughout focussing on this artist I felt as if it was the weak point of my book as although it linked with my theme of work, growth and decay, I didn't like this artist as I felt there wasn't much I could take inspiration from to create different non repetitive samples.

Here we see she has eliminated parts of the background in order to reveal the structure of the trees.

Here we can see she has manipulated the form of the fabric by using chemical change as well as distressing techniques.

Here in the style of Lesley Richmond I had used tyvek to create a sample inspired by her. I had using freehand drawn a tree and then had burnt parts of the background away revealing more of the structure of the tree.