Barbican Project

I’m loving being on the Handweavers Diploma in London and recently completed my first project. The Barbican was our design inspiration.  Here is the poem that was at the heart of my mood board. Also one or two pictures of the swatches in the collection.

Now is then and then is now
now is then and then is now,
relentless soul-less grey,
tingled alive with flashes of joy and colour
memories of you here, mingle with finger tipped geraniums on the flats

now is then and then is now,
steady studying summer-school,
heart pricked, such laughter and tears
shapes oozing remembered days, swamped by solid blocks of stuck-ness

now is then and then is now,
solid blocks surrender
leaking light, space, ideas for colour and design
gathering slowly, I warm to my task, my weaver and your artist joined.

© Sue Orton 2013

(I last visited the Barbican in 1980 with my mother artist and sculptor who died 23 Oct 2013