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It's very important to support other artists!
Walk through your house and take down any "second hand" reproduction art!!
Clear the way for the real stuff!
I love being able to own pieces by other fibre artists.
Although the works are usually small ( partially for budgetary concerns and also because we like windows and have 74 of them - which doesn't leave a lot of wall space!) they give me joy and interest every day.
Small pieces are little jewels that are easily purchased, easily hung, easily moved..
.I always have a few within glancing distance of my computer and my sewing machine.
This last year I acquired two new fibre pieces - you won't be surprised to learn that they are by two of my favorites: Pauline Burbidge and Elizabeth Brimelow.
Pauline stitched this black and white (my current favorite colour scheme!) piece based on a sketch made of a gorgeous part of Scotland - NW coast - called Applecross - you can see across lochs on either side of the Applecross hills.
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Elizabeth Brimelow made this piece working from her sketches of shingle on the East Anglia coast.
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while I would love to own a Dorothy Caldwell, I don't ..yet! - she's on my wish list!
I do have several pieces by other inspiring folk:
this one is by Susan Shie - it has little polished rocks stitched all round the outside and the texture is marvelously tactile. I photographed against the blue background - that's not part of the piece but I love the way it makes the saint pop!
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This is an example of Claire Verstegen's work - she is an amazing screenprinter -
with her layers of images, building colour and masking out.
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Dominie Nash - one of her landscape pieces - a mysterious countryside where anything might happen!
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Linda Levin - another landscape, it has a romantic Victorian feel with the unusual colours of the disperse dyes she used.
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Jeanne Williamson - before she discovered the construction fences that have kept her in place for a while now!!
A lovely detailed strong and balanced little composition.
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Kerr Grabowski: her wonderfully Zen loose swirls with a syringe filled with dye onto a screen.
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There is a vogue for smaller "domestic" pieces and those of you living near the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles will be able to see a whole show of such pieces on November 7th. they are hoping to sell a great number in an exciting event called High five. the event will benefit all: the museum, the artists and the new collectors. Annual auctions of smaller pieces are so popular they are now a feature of a number of organizations.
so...think about it!!! support the artists! and- by the way - the one at the top is my small study piece for my next series.
and, if you have been, thanks for reading!
Elizabeth
PS - an interesting table showing whether the two major candidates for the coming election support artists can be found on the Arts vote site.
1 comment:
So true, it is good to support other artists...... You have a great collection.
I shall do the same in near future and post the works I own by artists I admire.
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