Sara-Jo Busfield

Over the past two years I have built up an understanding of stitch and now its an everyday skill, now even patching up clothes has become creative and fun. My memoires are visible everywhere in my art and I include them everyway

even down to using my granddads favourite tea to stain my work. My family has played a great influence on my life and I am inspired to work with those memoires to create something even better.

Artist inspire my work as much as memories do, Hollie Caley is a keen favourite of mine and is visible through out my many sketchbooks and final pieces – her work is based on her childhood and nostalgia. Also butterflies play a big part in my work as they represent my childhood completely, I remember many summers spent admiring the beauty of their wing and trips to Lancaster’s Butterfly House still play on my mind even as I’m becoming an adult.

The ideas behind my work mostly stem from memory but I tend to never copy what happened in my past (for example, I never add photographs from the past), I fear that trying to recreate them will ruin the memoires I already have. So instead I take a memory (sometimes a small one) such as eating chocolate buttons at my grandma’s house and then I will base my ideas an object such as the chocolate buttons, after much development I create something completely different yet still having that link (photograph on the front cover).

I hope to go on to Bolton University and study Art and Design (textiles and photography).


sarax@hotmail.co.uk
http://thegirlwiththedocs.blogspot.co.uk/