Show delivered

Today I delivered all the pieces to the show, twenty nine pieces and a some variety. Abstractions and real subjects compose the art quilts. A lot of play on words and focus on friends.Sixteen pieces are familiar subjects to me, friends and family that work and play in the studio.

Had a wonderful time pulling these images together. Started out with photographs and then altered in Photoshop and then painted with acrylics. Matched with different fabrics and then quilted.

This piece was done of my granddaughters for my daughter-in-law so I guess it is not for sale. Couldn't deal with the grief that would cause.

  Zebra Trees on the long arm and my assistant Melissa measuring finished piece.

Show soon

Bit the bit and threw in my OK to do a two woman show to go up April 1, 2012. Kinda funny that it opens on April Fools Day. Maybe some underlying message here. Theme is Fiber Meets Friends. As a painter and a lover of fabric and construction, I suppose it was only natural that at sometime I would start to combine the two. Having lots of fun using my photographs of friends who have come into my life recently since I joined the art quilters in their quest to be creative and actually make art. The opinion tat using fabric is akin only to the crafts is not only not true but ludicrous. I seem to have fallen in love with using thread as paint. Combining different colors to reach tones and the hues I want is a blast. Hours and Hours of pushing an image back and forth on my sewing machine only stopping for tea and back aches. What is wrong with this picture? A lot when you consider a painting of the same size can be done in a fraction of the time. One apparent difference between the art quilt and a painting is the texture  obtained with thread is fabulous.

I did some abstracts, which actuallly started out as images but quickly fell ill to the eye and were slashed and reconstructed. Love cutting my work up, probably is more of a dare than anything else. Never know if you are going ot end up with strings. Either I like it or not, if any lingering doubt, I slash. I use to slach huge ceramic pots that I had thrown just for effect and horror of the viewer but now I have a passion for it once again but different media and no audience.

This quilt was created in protest to sitting through long boring talks. The kind of talks were you are trapped in time and cannot move form where you are without creating a disturbance. Sit through my last event...after creting this piece I realized there is no way I will subject myself to entrapment again in my lifetime. Tme is too precious, and the way I figure it, if I pay for it I should be able to leave without any hard feelings. If you order a coke and it is flat, you don't drink do you?