Fidelma Sheridan | Mixed Media & Fibre Artist

Nov 27

It's been forever since I came across an artists work and have been so inspired that I've had to tidy up my desk and start working on pieces of my own but luckily this is what happened tonight after seeing Fidelma's work!"The backdrops of my collages are formed by abstract washes layered with fading images of people from my past and present, crumbling surfaces collapse softly into nothingness, illuminated by flashes of explosive colour. Reminiscent of stained antique maps, faded and torn with use, yet quickened by the vibrancy of flickering city lights or a blazing summer sunset, my works seeks to capture an ethereal and dreamlike atmosphere."Most common materials used are inks, watercolours, pencil, threads, hand-dyed yarns and fabric, paper, bleach, paint, sewing machine and embellisher machine.Fabrics which have been hand-dyed, bleached, layered and fused together. Manipulation techniques such as fraying, ripping and wire brushing to distress the fibres. Surfaces are built through layers of hand-stitch in a variety of scale and machine tension affects.