The splendid new electronic equipment at Grassington Town Hall enables GTAG to host quality zoom meetings with speakers much further afield.Today we were joined by Maria Wigley giving a wonderful zoom presentation lecture "My work and Process".
Maria graduated in 1999 with a BA in fashion, specialising in textiles. She felt that the textile pieces she produced didn't need a function, but were rather pieces of Fine Art complete in themselves.
Maria explained that her early work developed as a colaboration between a mother and her daughter. Her young daughter was allowed to play with paint uninhibited by constraints that maturity brings. She then embroidered onto this abstract art.
Maria then became interested in "writing" and in particular with asemic writing which she felt communicated the emotion she wanted to express.
Maria's "process" starts with sketch books and she had incorporated a video of these in her presentation. She freely shared her textile techniques with us and I am sure has stimulated many of us to rethink our own work and process.
Whilst outside the rain was torrential, inside, Maria enabled us to forget the cold, wet, January day and concentrate on our love for textile art.
