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Work will be shipped beginning January 25, 2005, assuming payment in full.
Christine L. Adams 1. Dressed for Spring - 20"hx16" w - $450
Pamela Allen
2. Garden Denizen -22"hx16"w- $350
"Gardens conjure up an image of frothy foliage, boisterous color, and the sweet scent of flowers. Birds contribute their music thus completing the sensuous pleasures of the back yard."
Pamela Allen ( B.F.A. 1982) has been making art full time for 21 years. Her funky, folksy paintings, collages and assemblages evolved quite naturally into her current passion for fabric art.
Maureen Bardusk
3. Reflection
$350
"Reflection" attempts to capture the iridescence of a high country pond, my imaginary and ideal garden."
Maureen Bardusk works with paper, paint, and thread to address questions about the environment. In 2002, she was awarded residencies at Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Illinois, and Pouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland, Canada. Her work is represented by several Midwest galleries and can be found in corporate and private collections.
"St. Fiacre built an enclosed garden in which medicinal plants flourished. By creating a trellised plantation in the wilderness, he helped the sick, and provided travelers (male only!) with a green sanctuary.
Both saints' earthly vocations were their gardens. I associated the gold backgrounds and lattice patterns with medieval manuscript illuminations which seemed appropriate decoration for saints' garments. Pictures of each saint are inside the pieces, partially visible, as though in a reliquary.
I have been making and exhibiting
paper beaded work for twenty years. Inspiration for these symbolic
garments comes from historical and ethnic sources. I "translate"
references to weaving, braiding, knotting, and embroidery into
my own interpretation with beads which I paint, roll, and sew
in place individually. "
:materials and techniques: acryllic paint on acid free paper, then hand rolled into beads, individually sewn w/ waxed linen or metallic thread. collage.
Alison Fair Bixler
6. Dyes From a Garden in Maine- 9"h x 7"w - NFS
"My work is a celebration of and response to materials (silk and linen) and traditional textile techniques (hand weaving and natural dying). Dyes From a Garden in Maine is a record of the plants which surround a New England farmhouse: flee bane, dog bane, maple, lady's bedstraw, sumac."
Alison was born in England, studied textiles in the U.S. (University of Georgia and California State University) and now lives in Scotland. Her weavings have been shown at the American Craft Museum, in New York; the Royal Scottish Museum and the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.
Melani Kane Brewer
7. Night Weaver -
7 1/2"h x 15 3/4"w- NFS
"What better place than in a garden for the orb spider to set up shop. The hackled silk gives the web an unusual appearance as well as providing camouflage for the spider. Once its web is in place, the spider simply rests and waits for its prey to get caught in the web. How can we have arachnaphobia when we marvel at the weaving of a spider's web.
I started life as an art major working in silver and cloisonné and somewhere along the line fell in love with biology, much to the chagrin of my art teacher Mr. Jeffrey back in Ohio. My art often incorporates past careers as a biologist and anthropologist. I had always loved working with textiles, exotic yarns and threads. As a fiber artist I am able to combine all of the things I love and enjoy in my work."
Rosemary Claus-Gray
8. Organic shapes IV
- archivally framed to
71/2"h x 8 1/2"w- $350
"Organic shapes IV captures the lovely curves and lines of a flower petal, or the landscape of a garden. The touches of blue reflect water and light, essential for life. The abstract shapes produce a dream-like memory of a garden; either very close up, or from a bird's eye view."
Rosemary Claus-Gray is a late blooming artist. The joy and serenity she expresses in her art reflect a lifetime of savoring beauty. She uses fiber to express her vision in unique ways.
Jette Clover 9. Friendly Fertilization I 16 1/2"hx16"w- #375
"Like a garden needs fertilization to produce flowers, so does artwork get nurtured by outside influences. I have used bits of fabric scraps from friends to add color and growth to my garden dream."
Cotton, hand dyed and screen printed; machine and hand quilted
Linda Colsh
10. Winter Garden 22"hx16"w-
$520
Etched by frost, the Winter garden becomes an opalescent portrait of cold. Silvery light subdues contrast so that line takes center stage. In a world too frigid for smells, sound and touch icy snap and crackle take over the senses.
11. Easy Cuttings - 18 1/2"h x 16"w- $420
"The easiest garden we have ever had was on the Central Coast of California, where it seemed that all you had to do was think of a flower and it would grow. Color was bright and as easy to achieve as crayoning in a coloring book. But with this ease came the snails who methodically stripped and cut down their favorites overnight. "
An American residing in Everberg,
Belgium, Linda Colsh has lived and traveled, lectured and taught
in North America, Asia and Europe. She has exhibited in group
and solo shows in the US and internationally. Linda has two degrees
in Art History and worked as a technical writer before taking
up quilt making in 1981.
Silk and cotton fabrics, dyed and/or stamped, silkscreened by
the artist. Plus commercial fabrics. Machine pieced, machine quilted.
"I have always sewn, and I have always been an artist- this is just a way of integrating my life and sewing my autobiography. This particular piece also includes my passion for vintage fabrics and exotic flowers."
"I quilt, therefore I am."
Joan Dreyer
13. Of Soil and Substance - 16"hx20"w-
$445
"This piece makes visible that which is typically unseen. While brilliant foliage above ground enchants the eye, it relies on a healthy and vibrant root system to gather nourishment to sustain life. "Of Soil and Substance" is a visual metaphor that challenges the viewer to examine her/his own "root system" that is, faith and morals. "
hand dyed cotton, digitally printed cotton, cotton batting, assorted threads, block printing, ink drawing and hand quilting
14. Admonition $445
"When admiring the unspoiled foliage of nature we rarely think of the dangerous side of flora. Many common plants have poisonous components stems, leaves or roots. Some must be ingested in quantity to be fatal while others are toxic just by contact. The background in this work contains a listing of potentially life threatening plants. This piece serves as a reminder that while nature can be beautiful, it has the power to deliver death, as well."
Joan Dreyer uses a range of imagery from realistic to abstract -- to draw viewers into her work. She has developed her own working style where the materials and experimentation with them, often lead to the overall design. Her work is a combination of hand dyed fabrics and digital prints which have been joined together with stitchery. When asked what motivates or inspires her to create art, she responds, "Giving myself no limitations while in the studio, never censoring myself and always asking "what if ?".
Joan Dueul
15. January's Garden-
22"hx16"w $295
January thoughts
mind full of riotous color
waits awakening
Joan has worked with fiber and needlework since 1965. After earning her degree in art she returned to her love of textiles and color to piece and/or collage art out of cloth, thread and whatever else works.
monoprint prociion dye on cottonbroadcloth. Poly organdy, poly and rayon thread work.
Sally Dutko
16. Pre Pesto: Bounty from Our Garlic Garden -22"h x 16"w x 1 1/2" deep
-$900
"Pre Pesto" is about our garlic garden in various stages of maturation. Leaves and scapes reaching into the air; bulbs with their cloves in the ground ready to burst with aroma and flavor. This is a feast of textures in fabrics and threads, representing the rich earth and harvest."
Sally Dutko is a fiber artist who paints, dyes, designs, and sews art quilts, garments, and soft sculptures. Her fabric paintings are fiber collages, often abstract, and use a combination of many construction techniques. Art is her passion.
shibori background, satins, cottons, hand dyed cheesecloth, rayon and metallic threads, fine netting, sculpted areas.
Maxine Farkas
17. Rebirth - sold
"Last winter I buried some
fabric in a friends leaf compost pile. This spring we dug it up.
Now it is part of this piece. Isn't that
what it is all about?"
"I was trained as an historical geographer. My work is about the remaking of the industrial landscape."
"The wild garden dreams itself into existence, every year, every spring.
I have been making fiber art for
a number of years and have recently begun to work in mixed media
as well. Like many other artists, I draw my inspiration from nature.
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"The garden outside my window provides hours of dreaming. The endless possibility of nature is so inspiring.
Love of fibers, textures and colors has lead me to create with anything in the fiber media. I am painting and weaving my own backgrounds with fabrics, fibers, yarns, and ribbons, and embellishing with tiny beads to enhance perspective.
hand dyed silk ribbons & threads. Purchased yarns and beads. Free hand embroidery.
Materials: Silk organza, cotton batting, polyester backing, skeleton leaves, rose petals
Techniques: fused rose petals, hand painted, machine quilted
Rayna Gillman
23. View from the Deck $250
24. Earthly Delights - $300
"No garden out back; only the wish for a riot of color."
Rayna Gillman works in mixed media on textiles and paper, integrating text and images through a variety of surface design, collage, and printmaking techniques. Captivated by found and recycled objects, Gillmanis particularly intrigued by the texture and design potential of construction fence and uses it in many of her pieces. Her pieces evoke both memory and an urban sensibility as she explores the the past and a sense of loss.
Mary Beth Goodman
25. The Force of Spring - 21 1/2"h x 16"w
- $300
"Living at the edge of the Berkshires, spring is a long slow process. While the daffodils are always a welcome sight, they begin to appear even in late winter. For me, spring is about searching for the primulas which when they survive the winter add a small but strong spot of blue below the daffodils."
Mary Beth Goodman lives in Brainard NY near the Berkshires with her husband and herd of cats. She's been quilting for about 20 years and has the stash to prove it. Her quilts have been displayed in many shows across the USA.
Melanie Grishman
26. City Scape -14 1/2"h x 18"w- $350
"I envisioned a city bursting with energy above a fantasy garden lush with flowers. The piece is made of commercial cotton fabrics, appliquéd, machine embroidered and quilted then hand beaded."
Melanie Grishman is a fiber artist from North Bethesda, Maryland who explores the use of texture, color, and machine techniques in creating her quilted works. She is often inspired by nature and the forces of the universe.
Susan Lea Hackett
27. Wildflowers
-12 3/4"h x 10"w - sold
"Father sun brings forth growth from mother earth... wildflowers or weeds?"
Susan Lea Hackett earned a B.A. in Practice of Art from U. C. Berkeley and has explored painting, drawing, and collage. For the past 20 years she has focused on fiber arts, making art quilts and painting and printing on fabric. She lives and teaches quilt making in the San Francisco Bay area, with a second home in the High Sierras.
cottons, hand painted, monoprinted, sun printed and dyed. Machine pieced. hand quilting, embellished with embroidery floss.
"After visiting the Haight-Ashbury
section of San Francisco, I began thinking about the creative
passions of the 60s and contrasting that time with the present.
"Haight Fantasy I" pushes 60s' flower-power psychedelia
into today's high tech
culture."
Gloria Hansen is passionate for the computer technology that is pervasive in all areas of her life, including her work as a graphic designer and photographer. Co-author of "The Quilter's Computer Companion" and 12 other titles, Gloria is also the "High Tech Quilting" columnist for The Professional Quilter. Her goal is merging yesterday's traditions with today's technology to create visually expressive work.
digitally produced cotton fabric with archival pigment inks , enhanced with pastels. Machine pieced, appliqued and quilted. hand beaded.
Borg Hendrickson
29. Raspberry Patch
-18"h x 15 3/4"w
$330
"Dreaming of gardens is first a visual pleasure - emergence, greenery, blossoms - and before long a pleasure of taste - the snap of a bean between the teeth, the sweet crunch of a carrot, and midst a fence propped jumble of canes and green serrated leaves, the tangy burst of raspberries against the tongue. "Raspberry Patch" celebrates that luscious "jumble," that one delicious place in the garden."
Borg has been sewing since an
early age.As an adult she has explored various art mediums. In
the mid-1980s, she learned traditional quilting and gradually
came to realize that fiber, with its interplay of patterns, colors
and values, could become an artistic medium. By the mid-90s, that
realization had led to her focus on fiber art, primarily art quilting.
As she designs art quilts, she is often inspired by the beauty
that surrounds her, particularly by north central Idaho's wild
flora and the lushness of her own gardens.
hand dyed and commercial cottons; improvisational strip composition and piecing; machine quilting.
Susan Hinkley
30. Fertile Ground - 4
1/2"h x 3 5/8"w (framed to 14"x11"x 2")
- $400
"I created "Fertile Ground" as a reminder to myself that my mind can produce anything if I allow the seeds to sprout. I'm guilty of weeding out ideas before I ever give them a chance to flower. Her one word says so much: GROW. "
Bio info: I am a former quilter who took a 10 year hiatus to paint and create mixed media work. I freelance as a designer for several magazines, but have recently begun to refocus on fabric because it is my true love. The tactile nature of a fabric piece is very satisfying to me, and I do all sewing by hand. I especially enjoy incorporating recycled and vintage materials in my work.
Wool (recycled, hand dyed), Wool felt, cotton thread, cotton ric-rac trim, colored pencil, glass beads, ink, plastic. Hand stitching,embroidery and beading.
Rebecca hasn't sewn all her life, her grandmother gave up trying to teach her, and she almost flunked her home economics class. Miraculously, seven years ago she started learning how to use that sewing machine, and practiced, practiced, practiced. Today, whether two dimensionally or three, using intricate design or spontaneous collage, driven by a series or words, the lure of fiber has claimed a very willing victim.
Painted canvas, printing of original collages onto cotton and silk organza.
Catherine Kleeman
33. Winter's Promise II
-19"h x 13 1/2"w- $375
"Cold and dreary, winter serves up a dim reminder of the summers past, but holds the promise of springs to come."
Catherine Kleeman is a fiber artist living in Baltimore, Maryland. Her abstract work is inspired by the natural world. She endeavors to capture the spirit of what she sees and experiences and convey that feeling in her work. She dyes, paints, and designs her own fabrics.
hand dyed fabric, silk screening, laser printed organza. Raw edge machine applique, hand stitching, machine quilting.
Kim LaPolla
34. Moon Series I: January -15"
x 15" - $240
"This piece is part of a series exploring the use of color and form. It imagines what might grow in gardens bathed in the glow of other planetary moons."
Kim Marguerite LaPolla, is the author of How to Get Started as a Quilt Artist (2001). Her work, focusing on the play of color, shape, texture, and imagery, is an expression of the multi-layered experiences of life, full of meaning, both hidden and visible. Some of Kim's work has recently been exhibited at the International Quilt Festival as part of the Tarot Art Quilt Project.
Cotton, wool fabrics, metallic cord, beads. layered, stitched, embellished.
Barbara Barrick McKie has been creating contemporary art quilts since 1971, and most recently has been experimenting with combining her computer created imagery for realism with surface designed fabrics for abstraction. Her floral quilts will be featured at the Museum of American Quilter's society in summer, 2003. Her work has been shown widely nationally and internationally with the Museum of American Folk Art, Quilt National '99, Crafts National '97, 2002 and 2003, Materials Hard and Soft, and several Aulwood Audubon shows including 2003.
Disperse dyed polyester. Machine appliqued and machine quilted. Framed.
"Contrast dark colors and upward flowing lines were chosen to show the tension of the hot summer night. Despite sleepy time, the garden is full of life and passion, smells and sounds."
37. Floating Garden -SOLD
"In this piece I tried to show the beauty of the simple objects in nature, such as rocks, shells, water, sand, dead and alive plants and fossils."
Olena Nebuchadnezzar discovered American Quilt art in 1993 when she came to the USA from her native Ukraine. Since that time she had won numerous awards in national quilt shows. In her work she combines fabric, paint and embroidery. She spends many hours outdoors, painting, studying structures of trees and flowers, colors of the sky, water and ground prior to designing her wall hangings.
Full time studio artist, resides
in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Bachelor in Fine Arts, State Institute of Arts and Design(former
KHPT Art School), Kiev, Ukraine.
Materials (both pieces) cottons, silks, yarns, ribbons, semi-precious stones, beads.
Pat Owoc
38. Bradford Pear, August 10, 2002 - NFS
"August 10, 2002, my nephew's wedding day and the family spent a leisurely afternoon on a tree lined patio surrounded by Bradford pear trees. What dreams and hopes for the couple's future!"
Pat Owoc's recent work has been of three types -- botanical designs using disperse dye on polyester fabric; whimsical pieces, including a number utilizing plastic trash bags; and works reminiscent of the Kansas prairie of her childhood. There is an element of storytelling in most of Owoc's work.
Disperse dyes on polyester.
Lesley Riley
39. Wings -
$600
"Secret Garden ~ Magic Garden. A place where the soul takes flight. Spread your wings and fly."
Lesley Riley is a mixed media and fiber artist whose work is collected worldwide. Through the use of color and image, Lesley evokes magic and memory in small works of art that touch the soul.
The coleus plant is like a chameleon
in the garden, ever changing depending on the amount of sun it
gets. I've used disperse dyes on the overlay to portray the leaves
using a pleat and print technique. The background is pima cotton
dyed with urea pieces to form "raindrops". Hand stitching
then
delineates the forms. Like the coleus plant, this piece looks
different in varying light and from the direction it is viewed.
After experimenting in various media over many years, I discovered that I loved the texture that is inherent in textile art. In this series that I call "Naturescapes", I depict nature from a different perspective.
"Seeds and Weeds" is a true story of the start of our gardening season in 2002, in which it was cold and rainy well into May, just like this year. And then we got things weeded and planted, thanks to my friend Robin Schwalb's visit, ending May 28, 02. Only THIS year, I was teaching so much in cold and rainy May, that Robin's visit only started the weeding, and it's May 28 today again, and we haven't tilled at all! I need a new garden diary piece, only I need the time more for planting! But it will happen."
Susan She has made what she calls Outsider Art Quilts since 1981, including all her painting, writing, sewing, and embellishing obsessions in each story quilt. Jimmy Accord adds his help to the quilts' making, but now has gone back to working much more on his first art love, leather. Visit turtlemoon.com to see all their art and Turtle Art Camp, their week long monthly Biosphere like art intensive adventure which you can attend in scenic Wooster, Ohio.
Sandra Sider 43. Nightshade -18"h x 14"w- $600
"Shades of night and moonlight transform my garden into mysterious shapes and colors. Shadows of blossoms drift across the wall as leafy reflections dance in the wind. The city sleeps and all is quiet."
Born in Alabama in 1949, Sandra Sider was raised in western North Carolina in a family of longtime Appalachian quilt makers. After moving to New York City in 1979, she began to combine photographic techniques, especially cyanotype and photo transfer, with machine quilted constructions. Since the mid-1980s, most of her work has focused on art quilts incorporating photography, as she has personalized and developed various approaches to images in textile assemblage. Formal training in studio art was via classes and workshops at the School of Visual Arts and Manhattan Graphics Center. Her art quilts are in several public and private collections; they have been published nationally in books and art journals. Sider's essays on art quilts usually are published in Fiberarts Magazine. She founded the Fine Focus small format biennial competition. The artist is a member of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Manhattan Quilters Guild, Art Quilt Network/New York, the Surface Design Association, and the College Art Association.
Virginia A. Spiegel
44. Shrine of The Red Grass Appearing Moon - $300
"The Moon Shrine series is based on the names given by different cultures to the full moons that occur throughout the year. April is the time of the Red Grass Appearing Moon and marks the beginning of Spring in the garden."
Virginia A. Spiegel's award winning art is shown in juried and invitational exhibitions throughout the U.S. Her work has been selected for national and international traveling exhibitions with venues including Austria, Spain and France. Her fiber/mixed media work has appeared in books and magazines, including Quilting Arts and Surface Design.
Collaged, painted, dyed, beaded.
June O. Underwood
45. Garden of the Crow NFS
"Garden of the Crow" is a crow's eye vision of flourishing wetlands and wide open spaces, a terrain with endless possibilities in the far-off hills. And it's an image of a garden that could be beloved by the Crow (Absaroka) Indians -- a place to stop and secure food and shelter within their wide-ranging western territory. Birds and bird people alike would love this garden."
46. Montana Garden - NFS
"Montana Garden" isn't an English greensward, but it is as soothing and spirit filled a place as any green and fertile land. The eye and heart can wander across the wide expanses to the buttes and the dramatic skies and then come back again to the grasses, where old and new, gold and green, mingle."
June Underwood lives in Portland Oregon, but spent 6 formative years in her late 20's in the high plains of Wyoming. The land laid its imprint on her there and she still yearns over the gardens that stretch to the sky. A recent trip across Montana rekindled her eye for this landscape.
Bothe Pieces: Sillk Charmeuse. Photo transfer, paint, machine stitching.
In her most recent work, Julie John Upshaw is using thread, canvas, and vinyl to translate ideas. Some of these ideas center around the way contemporary society packages things, including art, and places these things in narrow categories.
"Leaves are plant organs
that breathe and transform sunlight into energy through the miracle
of photosynthesis. In addition to their beauty, they are busy
little machines. Put thousands of them
together and--through their amazing variety, complexity, grace
and mystery-- they become a garden.
I have shown my work nationally and internationally and been published in several quilt related books and magazines. In my home in Salt Lake City, I love to explore many surface design techniques, including disperse dye transfers, as in Leaves on Blue. When asked about my work, because of my love of the quilting process, I usually respond, "I've never met a thread I didn't like."
Karen D. Williams
50. My Illuminated Garden - $600
"I am inspired by the great
beauty of late medieval illuminated manuscripts, depicting the
natural world with exquisite attention to detail. Their unrestrained,
almost childlike use of scale, size and proportion - where a dragonfly
might be the same size as a person - allows great freedom to play.
My work attempts to capture the detail and the childlike wonder
which the illuminations seem to invoke.
The little figure in the piece is a self portrait. I fell in love
with an illustration of a medieval woman pushing a wheelbarrow
holding a huge potted plant, so I had to do my own interpretation.
And I liked how that visually bridged the distance between the
medieval garden, artist and gardener, and myself."
Karen Williams lives and works in Seattle, Washington, with her husband and two cats, Wormwood and Pooka. Her current work focuses on "painting" with fabrics and thread.
Materials and Techiniques: digital printing, painted with pigmented inks, handembroidery, free motion embroidery applique, silk ribbon embroidery, beadwork, beaded tatting, ribbon morked flowers, couched threads.
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