© Lesley Richmond.
Absolutely gorgeous textile trees, forests, and leaves by Lesley Richmond, using the Devoré technique. From an interview:
I take photographs of trees, concentrating on their branch structure and transfer these images on to a silk screen. The image is then printed with a heat reactive base on a silk/cotton mix fabric. This is heated and the reactive base expands and becomes dimensional. The cellulose fibers are then eliminated with a mild acid (devore). This leaves just the image and the silk thread background. The structures are then stiffened and painted with pigments and metal patinas.
I work alone in the studio in my house, with occasional assistance from a former student to assemble my large pieces.
More of Lesley’s work can be seen here.
Wow. I love her leaf cloth series. The lace cloth series look like lichen (esp. the pale coloured one), this is again painstaking work performed to fantastic effect.
Oh, I loved the leaf series, too. Those colours!
She’s got great colour combinations in the other sections, too (I have a particular soft spot for those that combine a very bright blue and/or green with a very bright yellow and/or orange and/or red. Just gives the whole piece a kind of glow), but the leaf series appealed to me the most.
I loved the fall colours best, the leaves with deep reds, burnt oranges, siennas, all that. Gorgeous.