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Sycamore - Hooked Rug by Sandra Brown
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Artist's Statement: Patterns in nature are a particular favorite of mine and over the 22 years I've been hooking rugs, I have explored leaves, bird wings, fish skins and bark. Sycamore trees, and their cousins English Plane Trees, have the most interesting and colorful barks imaginable and this is part of a series of sycamore rugs that I am hooking, each showing the tree at different times of the season with different coloration.
Most of the wool was hand-dyed gradation swatches and dip-dyes, with a few textures thrown in for effect. Depending on whether the sycamore tree is wet or dry one can have two completely different colors plans for the same specimen. This one is dry, mid-season, and the goal was to capture the subtle taupes, creams, suggestions of green and brown-beiges that one sees when looking closely at sycamore trees.
The pleasurable part, as always, was working with luscious wool. The challenging part was remembering to balance lights and darks and not drift off into medium-value hooking, forgetting the key features of the bark that tell us it's a sycamore
Sycamore won Best of Show at Sauder Village and is featured in 2005 Celebrations of Hand-Hooked Rugs.
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