Drawing on the Domestic

Initially the inside house table was to have a table top made from a large format print using motifs of domestic objects. However, the images them selves started to suggest a pattern, and even a repeat. This led us to the idea that it should become a table cloth, and thus an object in its own right. It is of course an interpretation of a table cloth. Some of the objects are represented in perspective, from one angle and some from another. Some are as if viewed from above. In the context of pattern this does not matter. We were influenced here by the Japanese textile tradition, where individual motifs carry meaning, but are at the same time are subsumed into the whole design. Printmaking is a flexible medium, and can use the language of other disciplines. (Post from Frances)