Amelia Coward

Amelia Coward is best known for her explorations into mixing, blending and grading colours.  Her dot collections comprise artworks created from her library of over 40,000 vintage maps and atlases, some dating as far back as 1850. She uses a unique decoupage process of hand bonding each piece of map on to birch wood before cutting them into the 3D dots used in each original composition

 

Born in 1975, Amelia's beautiful studio is  located in a traditional Oast Barn in the Kent countryside. She studied textiles The Royal College of Art and Central St Martins. Influenced by the colour theorist Joseph Albers, her carefully composed pieces are studies of spacial balance between geometric coloured elements such as circles and stripes. Using laser cutters much the same way as she was trained to use a loom, Amelia cuts geometric shapes then reassembles them in patchwork compositions. Her works move dramatically from highly detailed dot pieces containing sometimes 1000’s of raised hand-painted dots to large scale striped pieces comprised of contrasting scales and bold clashing colours.