Ideas

In response to our current exhibition at Jobling Gowler's in Macclesfield, a friend asked where do you all get your ideas from?   Good question, where do creative people find inspiration and how is the inspiration then turned into a piece of work?

 In 2003 I was lucky enough to hear Alexander McQueen talk about his work at the British Museum and this was one of the questions put to him.  His reply was that inspiration is all around us and ideas can come from something as simple as an image or as complex as an event but they must be allowed to evolve. He actually likened it to a 'cake mixture' when ingredients are gathered together and as one idea fuels another, the cake rises!  McQueen is very much in the news again with Kate Middleton's wedding dress and his retrospective 'Savage Beauty' at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, which has received amazing reviews.  Hope it will travel across the water, it would be an exhibition not to be missed!!

Rocks, coastlines and erosion are my source of inspiration at the moment and where better to be inspired but our own country!    A camera is a useful tool when time is limited - these two images were taken in Llandudno.    Jen