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A Journey Through Emotions!
Lisa Lloyd, a paper artist from Brighton, made a fish sculpture called Flux. She worked with printers at Barnard and Westwood to create it. Let’s find out how she made it!
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Paper artist Lisa Lloyd finds inspiration in nature for her stunning 3D paper sculptures. Her work has been showcased on BBC, Countryfile, and The Morning Show in the past. Now, her latest creation, “Flux,” will be displayed at the upcoming Start Art fair.
“Flux” portrays two shiny fish swimming around each other. It’s a remarkable artwork known for its strong design, intricate construction, & creative foil printing.
Lisa began crafting gold & silver fish by collaborating with Barnard & Westwood, a commercial printing company. The sculpture symbolises conflicting emotions.
Lisa had an incredible tour of Barnard and Westwood’s workshop. She was amazed to see the skilled craftspeople in action. During her visit, she had a wonderful conversation with Alasdair Abrines, the company director, about various processes and the beautiful effects and details they could achieve. Alasdair kindly suggested they collaborate on a project.
After brainstorming ideas, they decided to create fish sculptures. Lisa had always wanted to make fish, and they believed that using iridescent paper and foil block printing would make the fish look stunning, especially their scales.
Lisa had been thinking about adding patterns, textures, and gilding to her work for a while. Partnering with Barnard and Westwood felt like a perfect match. She didn’t know much about the available techniques, but she stumbled upon Barnard and Westwood during her online research & was excited to learn that they still used old machines & had keen eye for detail. This led her to reach to them for collaboration.
The title of the artwork, “Flux,” is inspired by the ever-changing and dazzling nature of fish scales, which symbolise shifting emotional states. Lisa explains that in her mind, she envisioned one fish with flesh-colored tones and another with dark, “oil slick” colors.
She aimed to capture the duality of emotions in her daily life, the constant fluctuations between hope & fear, vulnerability & strength, calmness & frustration.
For Lisa, the flow of emotions in her body feels like a dance or music, and she wanted to convey that sensation through her sculpture. She wanted the fish to appear as if they were dancing together, gracefully moving beneath water’s surface.
The gold and silver patterns on the fish enhance the complexity of these emotions and the depth of the feelings they represent.
Lisa chose to work with paper because she appreciates its tactile quality. She enjoys the hands-on process of shaping and manipulating it to create the desired forms.
Working with paper is meditative for her, requiring intense concentration while also allowing her to enter a state of focus, especially when she’s meticulously attaching thousands of paper pieces to her sculptures. She estimates that there are at least 5,000 pieces on the fish sculpture.
Creating “Flux” presented some challenges, even with the assistance of the craftsmen at Barnard and Westwood. Lisa shares that the main challenge was that she had never made fish sculptures before, and she hadn’t worked with printed materials either.
To overcome these challenges, she needed to create a prototype to figure out the fish’s structural aspects, as well as the sizes and shapes of the patterns and printed pieces that needed to be produced and then die-cut.
She crafted the prototype and then took it apart to reverse engineer the process. The final fish sculptures are entirely made from paper, with an internal skeletal structure crafted from card and covered with a tissue paper skin and textures.
Despite the challenges, all the hard work paid off, as the finished piece is truly stunning. If you’d like to see it in person, you can visit the Saatchi Gallery between October 11th and 15th, where it will be displayed as part of the Start Art fair.
For those interested in learning more about “Flux” and witnessing its creation, Lisa’s website features a behind-the-scenes video that provides an inside look into the making of the sculpture.
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