North place - Conceptual diagramming

Continuing my focus on pre-roman Britain, I started to look into the La Tène art style. The research stemmed from research into bronze and iron age crafts in the Gloucestershire and Cheltenham area, which led me to the 1879 discovery of the Birdlip mirror. Found in a Female burial site, between Birdlip and Crickley, Gloucestershire, the mirror was buried with a selection of treasures dating around AD50. Three skeletons accompanied the artefacts, with the most important object in the clutch a handheld bronze mirror. The back of the mirror has an intricate pattern etched into the metal, the pattern of which, shown below, is composed of interlocking triskeles ending in groups of 2-3 flourishes. It's known as one of the finest examples of Celtic art to survive today.

 The La Tène was a European Iron Age culture. It developed and flourished during the late Iron Age, from around 450 BC to the Roman conquest in the 1st century BC. La Tène culture's territorial extent corresponded to what is now France, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, England, Southern Germany, the Czech Republic, Northern Italy and Central Italy, Slovenia, Hungary and Liechtenstein, as well as adjacent parts of the Netherlands, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Transylvania, and Transcarpathia (western Ukraine).

I chose to experiment with the styles motifs and patterns as they felt suitably biophilic and they reminded me of the ironwork seen around the Cheltenham area. Looking at how the curves and organic forms can fit into the rigid site boundary.