Nature

For some primary research for my current project on 'freedom' I went out and some photographs of a selection of leaves. I wanted to photograph single leaves on their own but with it being this time of year (with them being brown and shrivelled) I had to settle for capturing them still attached. The colours were beautiful and fresh and I fell in love with the nature all around me! I am now going to use these images to draw from as when looking through my work I've noticed it's something i'm lacking in in terms of quantity. 

When I was taking my photos I also started to notice some eye-catching decay on walls and wood, so I decided to snap a few quick shots of it whilst there. I was most interested in the textures that the decay had caused and found it ironic how something that is falling to pieces and in some senses dying could be so beautiful. 

Yesterday I was given a choice of two new brief's and one of them was to do a 'white on white' wallpaper design for the wallpaper company Anaglypta which if chosen would be put into their 2013 Luxury Textured Vinyl section of their new book. I found this very exciting and think it would be fun to see what I can come up with for a textured wallpaper as its not something I usually get chance to do with a lot of my work being flat. So I thought that maybe some of my photographs of the decay I found could make an unusual texture for wallpaper and that it could at least be a starting point for experimentation.