The Rainmaker
An installation depicting the typical British Summer.
Before stepping into the real London, I have used the help of the virtual world - be it TFL or the BBC
weather forecast widget. Especially while attending college. My area of research and interest lay in understanding
the qualities of materials, the principles of substitution, and installation art. How do I create a life size arrangement?
And how does that turn into a single page visual or illustration? Can an arrangement be an illustration?
For my final project - The famous ‘British Summer’ inspired me into creating my visual around rainfall. I call myself ‘The Rain-Maker’ as I am attempting to literally ‘make’ rain, using a screen-printed fabric (on which it is raining cats, dogs, fish, alligators amongst other animals), giant paper cutouts, and an intricately hand crafted umbrella, creating a very British urban-scape.
The sketch depicted how the installation would look.
Sketch for the artwork to be created over the umbrella. It represents a cityscape raining onto an open umbrella.
Wire work and details of the artwork for the umbrella.
Pattern exploration for water created with paper cutouts.
The completed giant 'paper cut' water.
It is raining cats, dogs alligators and more ... amongst other animals that have rained across England
over the past 60 years; according to an article; you can find all of that created for a pattern printed on this fabric.
It also shows a water cycle - an imaginary one, in this case.
Printing the fabric in the screen printing studio.
The printed fabric. It had three different colours, and the pattern had to be repeated several times over the fabric, to make it appear seamless.
The Rainmaker - Installation.
