Trip to Liverpool

Visit to Liverpool

Friday, 23 January 2015



Taking rubbings from statues in the Walker Gallery Liverpool, in order to get patterned designs in which I could then interoperate into my weaving samples.



looking closely at textures



Bluecoats Gallery looking at pattern design to include in my weaving samples

For a trip to another city my location of choice was Liverpool, this was due to not having enough funding in order to travel to London at this time, however I do plan to also visit London galleries in the near future. I started out by planning which city stood out within the world of art therefore planned my Liverpool trip by mapping out the best galleries to visit  Walker, Tate, Bluecoats and the museum and their location, distance within one another. The best way of travelling there was to go by coach, as this was the most cost effective way. I found a link with travelling by coach and what I was initially doing when travelling by bus. I was able to apply the same method as I did previously when travelling on buses and began drawing the passengers each time the coach would stop. Within the galleries themselves, I focussed on textures, animals and the actual visitors themselves. I was inspired by many artists work such as George Stubs famous paintings of animals and statues which I sat and drawn from observation. Though these I found interesting I wanted to focus more closely at artists like William Morris as I was able to create patterned rubbings using his interactive pieces of his work and also statues were also an inspiration as I was also able to take rubbings using these creating interesting and unique patterns to further develop within my work.