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Kathryn Best - Experiments with Dry Pigments

Kathryn Best is an artist living in the Clonakilty area. She attended Rossa College Art, Craft and Design course attaining a FETAC award in 2006. Since then Kathryn has been experimenting with her artwork. During the Art, Craft and Design course Kathryn (as with many students) was unable to explore her own ideas and creativity as the course work was quite demanding. However now Kathryn has the time and inclination to pursue her own artistic agenda.

Kathryn invited me over to talk about her artwork. Kathryn has always been interested in light and colour, colour being the most important thing. Kathryn was experimenting with the idea of doing some Batik work however not having the wax at the time decided to experiment with dry pigments taking her ideas and putting them down onto paper. Kathryn decided to create these pieces by flicking the dry pigments and using different stokes and had hours of fun. Kathryn was really pleased with the outcome of her experiments especially the purples and pinks as these are her favorite colours. Liking the ways they all blended together.

The next stage Kathryn has planned is to take these ideas and experiments and to put them onto fabrics, silks and maybe cotton. She is now hoping to recreate these onto fabrics and then to mount them onto light boxes so that the colours come truly alive in ambient lighting for rooms. In the meantime Kathryn feels confident enough to share these experiments with Virtu readers.

Kathryn found that these pieces came very freely once she had decided that she was going to do it, everything became very spontanious and the creation process was very liberating on a personal level.