Dymkovo Toys: Personal Project

Over Easter, whilst on holiday in St Petersburg I went to a Russian folk art exhibition in which I was especially taken with a collection of traditional clay figurines, called Dymkovo Toys. I really like the geometric patterns and bright colour palettes. I would like to use this form of traditional form of folk art as inspiration for a series of shape-based screen-prints. 

Things to experiment with: 

• Paper collage of different textures : gouache painted Somerset paper, brown packaging paper, reflective gold paper and sugar paper. etc. 
• Screen-prints made up of different kinds of positives : mono-printed bitmapped shapes, chinograph and ink drawn elements, foiling to mimic gold leaf. 

Products:

• Series of experimental screen-prints / paper cut collages. 
• A zine : containing own photographs and research. 
• Selected designs developed into Large A2/A1 screen-prints for final exhibition.