the Sonia Delaunay swimsuit where it all began ...

And here is where it all began.... the Sonia Delaunay knitted bathing suit featured in the recent 'Colour Moves' exhibition . I included this image in a slideshow I collated for the workshop I ran in Spring 2012 on Art and Textiles .The Corkers RaZzLE daZzLe interpretation of this inspirational work is in creation .    

enAMOURed with ENameL

A rare find of matching Art deco enamelled buckles was the debut for a recent Corkers RaZZle DazZLe ARt KniT design .

CoRKeRS rAZzLe dAZzLe dISrUptIVe ARtWeAR

My very first Razzledazzle Disruptive Art knit materialised as a consequence of a Fine Art Painting  workshop I gave in Spring 2012 on the theme of the link between Art and Textiles .

 The allday workshop included artists such as Sonia Delaunay , Raoul Dufy , and also members of the Bauhaus and later war artists who had painted disruptive cubist inspired artwork on the surface of battleships to baffle the enemy as to their position in the water . The former bridged a gap between art and textiles and the latter was evidence of the power of cubist inspired art to disarm the spectator.  

 An example from the Bauhaus above .

As TS Eliot so eloquently wrote  'on Margate sands , i can connect nothing with nothing ' . Bathers on Margate beach wear Razzle Dazzle swimwear during the war .

The Razzle Dazzle Disruptive Artwork on battleships was impressive evidence of the effects of colour and line . 

Sonia Delaunay was a forerunner of Razzle Dazzle style with her disrupted chevrons as seen in this sketchbook .

The 2012 Corkers Razzle Dazzle Artwear is an amalgam of these contiguous inspirational sources .Thankyou for looking xox