MAGGIE AYERS TEXTURE ARTIST RESEARCH

When I began to add texture to the collage experiments within my work I soon realised that building up the layers on the collage had created a resemblement to the planets texture as we see in photographs, I was mostly inspired to research into an artist who could use materials to create these hole shaped deepened cracks as apart of colleges whether that's by re layering the texture on top of a drawing on a planet, like an outline. I thought that when I am creating these surreal collages based upon the theories of scenarios of what will happen when we die, I should include an outline of a planet or include the imagery of a planet as an involvement so the viewer is able to acknowledge that the scenarios are actually set in out of space.

one of Maggies pieces which explores the expression

of texture by using fibres and layering it 

on top of a hard surface. From this she has added 

colour to extenuate the build of layer and tones of 

colour.

I remember that as I started to build texture by scrunching paper and sticking it on top of the collage whilst adding a dry medium presented the feeling of shadow and treasure, I then ventured to want to find out different ways the texture could be presented and if the feeling of wanting to add more and more tones of dark shadow would have an effect upon the outcome of making the material more fragile, abandoned and rusty or if it links to the surrealistic relation of the texture being bright or typically modernised.

Maggie Ayres is a mixed media artist who especially develops the texture by additionally adding light and lines as an inclusion to her work, she specifically tells her viewers that the marks made on each of her pieces are created by a range of mediums and an application of unusual materials. She says on her personal website that states examples of materials included, 'Whether it is a trailed line of ink from a delightfully scratchy bamboo nib, a rusted metal print on paper or torn reclaimed cloth, or quickly cut scalpel lines on a beeswax and resin ground'. I also acknowledged whilst doing research that Maggie has a concept of picking particular mediums and ways to apply them by her emotions and how she wants to express them, an example of this may be applying with a much more rigid  material that does not break whilst more pressure is added, the medium that could be used to show an expression of anger could be thickening and adding more layers onto the surface.

Maggie has a close and personal meaning to her own work as she believes that as humans we leave traces of evidence through the life stages we enter and leave and as we do this, we create abstract stories which entail a mark being left, similar to her work she applies mediums to her work by traces of evidence that are close to her. A reflection from maggies life experiences bring her a gathering of many different emotions that she portrays from her thoughts and so she will show how she feels by the use of built texture, colour, the shape and control of lines.

Although this piece was created on stretched cotton with mulberry bark and painted acrylic I am actually fascinated by the height of depth as the bark has allowed the colours of the acrylic to shadow the background texture which is cotton. I am aware that it is the materials that Maggie enquires into her pieces that create such form but I am more interested in the colours that exaggerate the texture, rather than the singular material behind the composition as one. As you can see, Maggie has purposely used tonal shades of the blue colour palette to build upon the bark, the eye opens to the darker tones of the piece as the black to dark blue tone has been filled within the gaps of the bark. I have learnt that when shadowing texture Maggie's work has proven the acknowledgement of using acrylic paint in particular to create a thick layer above the materials added. For my future experimentations regarding texture I need to use mulberry bark and incorporate it on top of other surfaces because from this experiment I am so intrigued by the detail into the bulges that are filled by the acrylic.

HOW DOES MAGGIE AYERS HAVE A LINK TO MY WORK IN GENERAL?
I believe that doing this research into artists who actually specialise in finding ways to express their marks to their own personal life and resemble the colours used or shadows exaggerated to extend jupon the emotion given from a past experience really gave me inspiration to power my own work to the amount of texture I add. For example, I could add more texture to a collage when the scenario is entailing a force of sadness, Maggie has given me inspiration to think about using a finer to detail material to work upon so it can resemble a mark of physically and purposely trying to hide the sad expression within my work. Although making links from texture to emotions I also want to be able to use texture in a form of resembling a planet or imagery as a planet, as my research into the surrealist collage have moved and changed slightly, I want to finalise my main ideas as to being an involvement of texture as the background of like a planet with a scenario of what I will be doing in an afterlife. Like little scenrarios that I have created before that are very surreal but have human, photo realistic images involved.