The days are getting shorter and I feel like we need something bright in lacemaking this month to cheer us. Cue Marian Núñez!
Marian Núñez is a Spanish artisan lacemaker and an Art History, Design, Drawing and Lacemaking teacher at the Arts & Crafts School in Vigo, who explores the experimental and avant garde side of lacemaking. Núñez creates lace in innovative ways using shape, structure, volume and colour and her lace artwork is vibrant and intriguing.
Núñez talks about her work and her lacemaking processes. She describes volume being a key factor in her pieces. “Instead of having paintbrushes and paints I have lots of coloured threads, diverse materials, silk, cotton, linen…“
Núñez describes using traditional stitches in a contemporary way. In lacemaking, if the basic stitches are used in a different way, moved differently, new possibilities emerge.
Núñez defines her works as organic artisan lace and takes her inspiration from everything that surrounds her. She also says that music plays a very important role in her creation process, something I find very interesting. “It makes me work in a different way, fluctuate; sometimes I have the feeling that the threads are flying.“
Feelings are very important to her, Núñez talks about needing to find something else in the thread when it was cut, life was taken from it and with her lacemaking she tries to give life back to the threads in a different way.
You can enjoy a terrific interview with Marian over at the Bobbin Lace Online website, and discover more of her portfolio on Behance.
Do you have amazing lace to share? Can you recommend a lace artist that we should know about? Let us know!
