Howalt, Camilla

The felt pieces are cut into shapes and dyed in several batches so as to create a variety of shades before being sown together into a loose and imprecise grid. This is also the case in the panels of knots which are made from linen applied with cotton strings knotted into a strict architectural grid visible both on the front and the back of the work. In both of these methods I explore the idea of the line as a physical and harmonizing g part of the pieces, but also as the chaotic part which refuses the figurative aspect of the grid. In the works on paper I translate the visual traces from the making of the felt grids using pen and ink; the stitches are drawn and the color fields are painted. However, despite the difference in materials the grid is aimed at maintaining its underlying structure which, when breaking its boundaries creates the possibility of unforeseen relationships and visual structures.

Contact details
  Camilla  Howalt
E9
camilla@camillahowalt.com
www.camillahowalt.com

Primary Art Form
Visual Arts and Designer Makers

Other Artform categories
Applied Art
Painter / 2D
Textiles
Visual Arts