The theme for our exhibition at Colours May Vary this year is 'Out of Order' which personally I'm not fond of. It's very general and didn't give me any initial ideas to get excited about. I'd prefer it if the brief had something more specific for us to work to. Never the less I was still excited about the opportunity! Last year I was really happy with the outcome of the show, selling many prints and getting further work chosen to be put in the shop, this would be great to repeat.
My work from last years exhibition was a clean and simply designed marbled two layer screen print. The guys down at Colours May Vary love screen print and the fact that each of my marbled prints is unique, keeping this in mind I began work.
I made a few roughs for a basic idea I had that simply placed figures sitting differently. My thoughts were that I would screen print each character differently - some marbled, some flat colour perhaps also using a well considered colour scheme to target Becky and Andy.
Unfortunately my awful roughs too me no further as I just found the idea too boring, I need something that can at least related to something I'm interested in. I was messing around in Photoshop attempting to form a crayfish (whilst watching a documentary about swamps) when an 'Out of Order' idea hit me. I was using this grid of sorts to represent crayfish with a little Gestalt composition (leaving gaps for the observer to fill) when I thought to use these square tiles with inverted white shape to illustrate something that's 'Out of Order'. Sort of like a rubix cube or some puzzle.
I was happy with the idea of 'The Red Crayfish Swamp' and repeated the design, forming a large on end square. I like the idea of this being representative of the whole swamp, however there are far too many details and fiddly bits. As stated earlier, Colours May Vary and the people that visit their shop are my audience and they like clean and simpler design work, rendering the original four tile / square design more appropriate.
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