Bridget Schilizzi

My work follows my keen interest in textiles and found materials to explore line and colour. It is drawing based and influences include the abstract impressionists, Arte Povera and painters such as Cy Twombly.

This piece grew from drawings I made inspired by a photo of a small segment of chain-link fence where the wire had been wrapped with red wool. The effect was to draw the viewer to consider that piece of fence but also to what was beyond. Was the fence protecting against the unwanted? Someone inside or the observer? Like the fence, the blanket offers protection, not from intruders but from the elements. By using an old blanket, and found pieces of knitting and wool as metaphors for the unwanted, the unwanted becomes transformed into something to keep and to treasure. 

b.schilizzi@btinternet.com