Firm and messy brushstrokes, slow and heavy but also quick and light, draw figures without rules. Abstract art is all about the immediacy of a gesture and an impulse, a feeling that comes out without control or forethought, reinterpreting reality on canvas. A panorama distorted by waiting and by cool complementary colours marks a fabric by Harris Tweed Hebrides while a faux fur by De Ball is splashed by a lagoon landscape. Close your eyes for a moment and scratchy wax crayons begin scribbling on your damp eyelid, strangely festive lines and squiggles explode in the pattern on a Quorum fabric. Perspectives mix, expanding the image in an unexpected way. The red Tessport roof of a house opens up like a cross-section. Linen paper embeds oil pastel in clumps. A knit by Luís Azevedo & Filhos roughens a curious meeting of chunky pastels thrown onto the surface. A pure sea blue by Ricciarini opens a vaguely familiar door onto an emerald green-tiled room, resembling a knit fabric by Trimalhas - Knit Inspiration. A theatre of adventures, like a sailing voyage embarked upon by Valter buckles, or an epic and heroic journey to an ochre-gold land, a terry field like Loden Steiner’s fabric featuring a flying dragon. When you open your eyes again, a veil by Gipitex paints a whole new landscape. Dried watercolours and brushes are laid out like paint in rough, seemingly random strokes.
Concept & editing by Zoom on Fashion Trends magazine
