Debbie Smyth

I looked at an artist called Debbie Smyth her worked inspired me with my fine line drawing Debbie uses an unusual way of drawing she draws large scale using only thread and pins to create her art.

Her pushes the limitations between fine art drawings and textile art, flat and 3D work, illustration and embroidery, lifting the lines off the page making the work pop out literally.

This is what Debbie thinks about her work “On first glance, it can look like a mass of threads but as you get closer sharp lines come into focus, creating a spectacular image. The images are first plotted out before being filled out with the thread, the sharp angles contrasting with the floating ends of the thread.  And despite the complexity of the lengthy process I try to capture a great feeling of energy and spontaneity, and, in some cases, humour”

Her work helped me with my mark making techniques to use line over lapping as you can see from our work there is a similarity.

My thought about her work is I really like her idea of drawing with thread and her different quality’s of line she creates by overlapping the thread.