PAMELA LAYZELL
Pamela began making lace in 1985. Keen to develop her own designs, she embarked on the City and Guilds course, completing Part 1 in 1998 and Part 2 in 2002. She received a medal of excellence for both parts. She joined the Westhope Group in 2007. Pamela now enjoys experimenting with various materials and often works with coarse threads on a large scale. This has included a phase of working with ‘thread’ made of plastic bags cut into strips. For ‘Shape Shifting’, she played with regular mathematical shapes and solids. This led to several pieces based on triangles, including two 3-dimensional pieces. She enjoyed the challenge of how to construct a robust framework to give the 3D form, a challenge which becomes even more complicated when trying to work to a large scale. Recently, Pamela has enjoyed creating and working with non-standard curved grids, using words from shapes adapted from semaphore signals to create her patterns. She is trying to incorporate more colour into her work having worked in neutral tones for several years.
 All of the Colours are Blackby Pamela Layzell
42 x 180 x 22 |  Colours of Mount Graceby Pamela Layzell
61 x 24 x 15 |  Wall hangingby Pamela Layzell
Linen and string
87x46cm |
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 Silk bagby Pamela Layzell |  Contrasting vesselsby Pamela Layzell
Vase: 18cm x 5cm
Bowl: 12cm x 6cm |  Morse rainbowby Pamela Layzell
15cmx95cm |
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 Tumbling tetrahedraby Pamela Layzell
As I played with twisting equilateral triangles, the triangles suddenly turned into 3 dimensional tetrahedra. Machine lace on a wire frame 80 x 65 x 12
Exhibited at Shape Shifting, 2014 |  What Triangle?by Pamela Layzell
Is there a triangle here? Needlelace on wooden frames 100 x 100
Exhibited at Shape Shifting, 2014 |  Lunchby Pamela Layzell
Experiments with plastic suggest a spider's web, so why not make one? A web needs a spider, and if you are going to have a spider, you'd better have a fly as well! Bobbin lace using plastic and mixed media.
Exhibited at Inside Out, 2010 |
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 Lunch (fly)by Pamela Layzell
Experiments with plastic suggest a spider's web, so why not make one? A web needs a spider, and if you are going to have a spider, you'd better have a fly as well! Bobbin lace using plastic and mixed media.
Exhibited at Inside Out, 2010 |  Strung Outby Pamela Layzell
Plastic caught on bushes, rubbish polluting our environment or something beautiful? Bobbin lace using plastic.
Exhibited at Inside Out, 2010 |  Moving apartby Pamela Layzell
Divergence means moving apart. Simple Torchon patterns have been cut up and moved apart to make interesting designs. Hung as a mobile these pieces continually move apart from each other. Plastic (vegetable bags) and acrylic rods. H 160cm.
Exhibited at Divergence, 2008 |
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 Moving apartby Pamela Layzell
Produced using supermarket plastic vegetable bags
31x23cm (detail)
Exhibited at Divergence, 2010 |
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