Ian Berryis a British born artist currently based in Sweden, who creates artwork solely from denim.
I was about 14 and we were going to a family party, recalls Berry.
I wanted to wear my favorite pair of jeans, but my mum had other ideas.
Out instead came the corduroy.
I still remember feeling so self-conscious and uncomfortable, and not myself.
How I wanted to be in my beloved denim, just like my cousins were wearing.
I was transfixed by the ripped, faded beauty of the fabric.
Berry began experimenting with denim artwork while at university and then while working at TMW as an art director.
He hunts around charity shops looking for old jeans, and gather discarded ones from family and friends.
He also has a supply from a warehouse in Sweden.
I have probably had a thousand pairs of jeans.
I end up rationing some of the better shades as they really can set a piece off.
I don’t throw any away and I have a system of areas where smaller and smaller bits go.
The smallest pieces will be saved for things such as bushes and trees.
