Bead embroidery art

Richard Preston (Richard Preston) from Toronto (Canada) is not limited to the narrow limits of a single creative direction, trying himself as a painter, sculptor, designer, photographer, writer, actor, musician ... One of his passions was working with beads, and now about thirty years in the light appear original things, filled with vivid and colorful ethnic motifs author's power. 

 In 1979, long hair, hung with "Baubles" by Richard Preston, just returned from a hitchhiking across Canada, initiated the establishment of West Coast Jacket (Jackets of the West Coast, 1980) - the first of a series of military jackets on which beads or embroidery, it creates a variety of topical or abstract paintings. Army clothing, embroidered sun, clouds, heaps of stars, river flows, with flowers, including a lush pink wreath on her head skeleton, symbolizing death, covered with designs with a touch of psychedelic aesthetic, makes a strong and rather contradictory impression, transforming each jacket - originally impersonal thing - a unique and truly a conceptual object. As acknowledged by Preston, but interest in working with new material, inspiring momentum served as a major transformation in public consciousness and personal rethinking of global problems, such as demilitarization.

 

 The artist tries to convey his attitude to the mass killings of some other groups of people, using one of the military attributes - the symbol of destruction and degradation. Element of military uniforms, formalizes and depersonalizing the appearance of people, it becomes canvas for creative expression began, which depicts the designer on it peace and life-affirming images.

 Today, when even the children's range is full of shorts and panamkami in military style, it might seem that way that Richard Preston has chosen to put their ideas are not sufficiently relevant. More effectively in resonance and with less effort and time it would make t-shirts with the inscription "*** War!" For example those in which the applause of the international audience a popular Russian musical group. Richard Preston is a similar position to what is happening more sincerely and creatively, is really "flowing" through itself every thing, which contains an important idea for themselves.

Also interesting textile works presented another series of artist and designer, called the "stratigraphy" in honor of the geology section. When you create these small works of art, Richard has used the remnants of the materials associated with jackets and other creations. Just as the various layers of the Earth can tell a lot about the history of its formation and development, these works are a kind of "connected" from different periods of creativity Preston.