Diane Macgowan
1956
10 Works exhibited on Kooness
Current location
French
Represented by
Galerie Libre Est L'Art
, Paris -
FR
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Works by Diane Macgowan
My love for textiles began when I was a young girl. My mother was a seamstress and upholstery professor at a college in London. Thus from a young age I was surrounded by fabrics and I always enoyed observing the process of chosing, handling, cutting, pinning and stitching the fabric. The smell of new fabrics still brings me back to my childhood.
I started my career as a professor of arts and textiles in London, where I was born. Since then I have lived and worked in several countries around the world. In 2022 I arrived in France and in the same year I opened my atelier/gallery in the center of Pau, a city in the southwest of France.
The nature all around me is of great inspiration for my work as I love to spend time observing the smallest details as well as the bigger picture. My work is a celebration of color in nature and at the same time it is somehow its representation, leaving enough room for personal interpretation.
My works are created by superimposing the layers of fabric. I cut, rip, thin out and superimpose fabrics in order to create landscapes and perspectives before seaming them in place with a sewing machine to give definition and details. All is made without glue.
I recommend to look at the artworks from a distance, and also very close and from different angles. The artworks change with different lights as well.
I hope you will enjoy my work!
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