Textile Art & Fine Craft
Commissioned work in progress, February 2024 Studio Three 17 is shifting focus from an art business to an art practice. I have worked with fabric and clients for over five decades. I began with clothing repairs, alterations, and construction. I progressed through crafts, home decor and furnishings, and finally to fabric art. During the pandemic … Continue reading Shift Happens
Fabric artists and quilters often point to a fabric in a piece, naming it as the inspiration, the starting point. My work usually begins in a conversation with a client or in an a dialogue that has a bit of friction to it. I have struggled with getting started on works I want to make … Continue reading Fabric as Inspiration
Spring is nature's way of saying "Let's party." --Robin Williams Trio of Dancers was joyously created several springs ago from remains of three other projects: the pieced background, the triangle screen print, the three-dancer design. Context, pattern, and design. Sounds like an art party to me. About Call / Response: Quote-a-day calendars infuse my day … Continue reading Call / respond week 21
Be like the bird when pausing on limb too slight, sings, knowing she has wings. --Victor Hugo This quotation was discovered before I turned 20! This week, the warbler and the quotation and I are celebrating the birthday of one of my daughters in law. Kendra is an artist, a lover of birds, and one … Continue reading call / respond week 20
To make a prairie it take a clover and one bee-- One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do If bees are few. --Emily Dickinson "Revery" is woven from strips of fabric and matted on both sides. It is designed to hang in a window of on a french door. This … Continue reading call/respond Week 18
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. --Bertrand Russell One of the original self portraits of the artist as as egg My husband enjoys looking at what is happening in our garden, while I tend to invest more energy in the making and keeping of a garden. His example reminds me that an … Continue reading Call / Respond Week 16
Trees are sanctuaries. --Herman Hesse The tree of life shown here is created on the front of a white silk chasuble. I found the quote from Hesse this week and I thought they would like to be together. I like to be close to trees. Do you? About Call / Response: Quote-a-day calendars infuse my … Continue reading Call / Respond week 15
Leap and the net will appear. --John Burroughs I encountered Burrough's words in a group study of Julia Cameron's The Artist Way many years ago at a time when my courage needed to be reignited. The art quilt, part of the reignited work, includes the bold moves of stitching tucks in a flat work and … Continue reading Call / Respond Week 13
Motto I play it cool And dig all jive. That's the reason I stay alive. My motto, As I live and learn is: Dig and be Dug In return. --Langston Hughes I created this collage of musicians as an illustration of this Langston Hughes' poem. It is still on display in the studio as fresh … Continue reading Call / Respond week 11
A very great vision is needed and the person who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky. --Crazy Horse I found the words from Crazy Horse one day this past winter. The art piece, Sequestered, was begun a decade ago after a really good study about time … Continue reading Call / respond Week 10