Personal Project: My Homage to Wallis

My homage to Alfred Wallis, Voyage to Labrador
My 'Copy Cat' piece is an interpretation through hand embroidery. Wallis started painting in his 70s, after being a fisherman all his working life. His work is described as Naive, a style that I have always enjoyed and which I like to replicate in my textiles. In my sample, I have tried to stay within the original piece's composition as a base, but brought colour and texture through the variety of embroidery stitches used. When I start stitching, I always start with an outline, but I do not have a plan on the stitches or colour I use, I stitch freely. 
The backing fabric is 100% cotton, hand dyed with fabric paint & water, dried in the sun with a stone, twigs, mustard seeds & salt placed on top, to give the fabric a pattern. I have used DMC embroidery threads. 

©Joanna Cox Marshall ​