Nicola Yeoman

Interesting artist that works across mediums. Might include her at the end of the book.

From an interview- http://www.dontpaniconline.com/magazine/arts/nicola-yeoman

Looking through your portfolio, it seems that you experiment with many different mediums and styles. Is that accurate, and if so, why is that experimentation so important?

I dont really want to be pigeon-holed, so I do keep experimenting and trying to push things further. I like using a wide range of materials and exploring their uses and potentials; it could be fabric, cement, brass or wood or found objects. I do have recurring themes and ideas which I always return to, and some materials become favorites which again I go back to using.

Last year I moved into a massive studio, and this has really given me more freedom than ever to mess around and explore different ideas. Some ideas work and I develop them further, and others I abandon. But I have the space to be working on a couple of things at once, and to leave them, keep coming back and changing them, much like the the dens of my youth. The Scrapbook Circles series, which is also part of The Wyer show, is part of an ongoing body of work which is like a visual record of my scrapbooks. They all use different materials/ objects, the only thing which unifies them is that they are circles.

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