Statement: My work reflects a long-term interest in color and its emotional impact on the viewer. I work on small designs that combine a gestural use of drawing, painting and collage. These become the guidelines for translation into woven tapestries. I aim to recreate and capture the immediacy of these marks. My tapestries have combinations of painterly areas; flat planes of color; drawn and printed marks. The images create illusions of space, depth of field or movement. I then change materials and techniques and work with soft, pliable yarns and threads to construct the image in warp and weft, weaving and carefully interlocking the tones and colors. The medium of tapestry has a unique presence and sensuality. For me it lends itself to the use of intense color and provides a richness of surface texture which is very different from paint. Once a woven fabric is made from the yarns the light is absorbed rather than reflected creating a far denser, more sumptuous quality.                                                                                                             Jo Barker

7jb detail DAPLED CIRCLE - ORANGE

Catalog #29 FROM ACROSS THE POND: Contemporary textile artists & basketmakers from the UK click for more information	Catalog #33 BEYOND WEAVING: International ArtTextiles click for more information

Book #10 ART TEXTILES OF THE WORLD: Great Britain I click for more information

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