I am still enjoying my photos from the Festival of Quilts, even though this is not exactly news anymore. They have a competition category called Quilt Creations, where you may enter every quilty th…
the main quilt exhibition at the Welsh Quilt Centre in Lampeter
I am still enjoying my photos from the Festival of Quilts, even though this is not exactly news anymore. They have a competition category called Quilt Creations, where you may enter every quilty th…
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I am still enjoying my photos from the Festival of Quilts, even though this is not exactly news anymore. They have a competition category called Quilt Creations, where you may enter every quilty th…
I am still enjoying my photos from the Festival of Quilts, even though this is not exactly news anymore. They have a competition category called Quilt Creations, where you may enter every quilty th…
I am still enjoying my photos from the Festival of Quilts, even though this is not exactly news anymore. They have a competition category called Quilt Creations, where you may enter every quilty th…
I am still enjoying my photos from the Festival of Quilts, even though this is not exactly news anymore. They have a competition category called Quilt Creations, where you may enter every quilty th…
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I am still enjoying my photos from the Festival of Quilts, even though this is not exactly news anymore. They have a competition category called Quilt Creations, where you may enter every quilty th…
I am still enjoying my photos from the Festival of Quilts, even though this is not exactly news anymore. They have a competition category called Quilt Creations, where you may enter every quilty th…
I am still enjoying my photos from the Festival of Quilts, even though this is not exactly news anymore. They have a competition category called Quilt Creations, where you may enter every quilty th…
Karen Kamenetzky crée des quilts en s’inspirant des images de la vie cellulaire, réalisées au microscope. Elle peint et teint ses tissus, elle les utilise en volume parfois pour créer une sorte de biologie textile imaginaire. J’aime beaucoup ses couleurs vives et ses formes rondes. Visitez son site pour … Continuer la lecture de L’artiste du vendredi, Karen Kamenetzky →
I am still enjoying my photos from the Festival of Quilts, even though this is not exactly news anymore. They have a competition category called Quilt Creations, where you may enter every quilty th…
I am still enjoying my photos from the Festival of Quilts, even though this is not exactly news anymore. They have a competition category called Quilt Creations, where you may enter every quilty th…
I am still enjoying my photos from the Festival of Quilts, even though this is not exactly news anymore. They have a competition category called Quilt Creations, where you may enter every quilty th…
I am still enjoying my photos from the Festival of Quilts, even though this is not exactly news anymore. They have a competition category called Quilt Creations, where you may enter every quilty th…
I am still enjoying my photos from the Festival of Quilts, even though this is not exactly news anymore. They have a competition category called Quilt Creations, where you may enter every quilty th…
I am still enjoying my photos from the Festival of Quilts, even though this is not exactly news anymore. They have a competition category called Quilt Creations, where you may enter every quilty th…
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I decided to go a bit colourful and unrealistic with these watercolour trees but I think they look quite nice. A pen and ink group of very well dressed ladies wearing some rather unusual hats. I thought you might like to see what I am sketching at the moment. I love peeking into other peoples' sketchbooks. A lot of my sketches never actually make it to finished drawings and sometimes the ones that do are completely unrecognisable from the original sketch. I decided to stick to a gold and magenta colour palette with these. It is a combination that I think looks really good together. An attempt at a watercolour tree sketch "a la John Blockley". These gorgeously colourful textile pieces are by the very talented Sherrill Kahn. I love her fabric doll necklaces which have a wonderful graphic and native look to them. Sherrill is another multi-talented craftswoman who paints, weaves, quilts, beads, sews, knits, crochets and draws. Wouldn't it be lovely to do all that, but where does she find the time? I have a couple of her books and they are a delight. You may need to click on the pictures to enlarge them to get the full details. The images below are the work of the late and much lamented watercolourist John Blockley. I love the way he rendered his trees with a watercolour wash roughly tree shaped and then the branches stroked in. I would have loved to have seen him working. His pictures are full of texture and beautifully subtle colour. We have had some very cold (for the UK) weather for the past three weeks. Nothing in comparison to the weather some of you are getting of course, but everything is relative isn't it? What we have to put up with in the freezing tootsies department we make up for in the beauty of the countryside. A hoar frost which covers the trees in white crystals is utterly stunning, to my mind anyway. It is almost more beautiful than pristine snow, and we have had quite a few to admire recently. Unfortunately, the downside has been pavements and roads like skating rinks. I had to assist several women in picking up a poor elderly lady who had lost her footing the other day, and she was far from the only one. Makes me wonder whether we should all have shoes with spikes on the soles in winter. There would be far fewer people in A & E departments with fractured limbs. Like everything in life there is an upside and a downside - keeps the balance though! My artist this week is no longer with us but he has left some wonderful art to remind us that he was here. He is the well known watercolourist John Blockley.When I first started drawing and painting back in 1990ish I found his books on watercolour landscapes a wonderful source of inspiration. A lot of his work is of the Cotswold area of England and I had found someone who also loved trees, if his paintings are anything to go by. His work was his personal view and feelings about a place, rather than a literal representation and he also produced more abstract work. I have only posted images of the more realistic work as I am not really a fan of abstraction in art. I love his pencil sketches and the shapes of his trees. I tried very hard to emulate his style back in the 90's before realising that I had to find my own. I treasure his books that I own though and often browse through them. I wish I had his talent with landscape. Some of his work can be found here at the Manor House Gallery site and elsewhere on the web if you type his name in a search engine.
Streak of Lightning, detail. Amish maker, ca. 1930. On Friday May 2, 2014, DH and I went to the Museum of Fine Arts for the much-promoted exhibit Quilts and Color, on view from April 6 through July 27, 2014. The MFA offered a number of color theory-related events as well this spring, such as a lecture by Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. Left, elevator to exhibit. Right, Entrance banner. All quilts are from the collection of Gerald Roy and his late partner, Paul Pilgrim; they began collecting in 1974. The curatorial theme of the exhibit is color theory as exemplified in the work of quilters, and the show is divided into sections, such as "Harmonies" and "Contrast." In addition to the quilts in each section, there is at least one work by a contemporary artist, such as Sol LeWitt or Bridget Riley, or the king of color theory himself, Josef Albers. So this exhibit is meant to appeal to two audiences - quilt and textile fans, and students of color theory to whom "quilt" might still mean bed-covering. Installation and viewers. The small, isolated modern works look a little, well, wimpy, surrounded as they are by the quilts which are just monumental presences. I'm all for finding affinities and the exhibit wall text draws connections between the modern works and the quilts, but the quilts need no such justification or validation. As Boston Globe critic Sebastion Smee said in his review, just go and enjoy the impact of the quilts. A note on my captions - in most cases the name of the quilt artist is not known, although her religious or ethnic community may be identified; for example a quilt may be made by a member of the Amish community. So, I follow the curatorial labeling, and identify the community of the maker where indicated. Sunburst, Mrs. Ephraim Scott, ca. 1856. One of Mr. Roy's conclusions is that until consumers of art - the museum-going public as well as critics - were ready to accept abstract art (which acceptance occurred sometime in the mid-20th century) we weren't ready to understand quilts as art, because traditional quilts are abstract. I would beg to differ. Mr. Roy is correct that it is only relatively recently that quilts have been viewed as works of arts in and of themselves, rather than artifacts in the backwater that was the history of textiles. However, non-representational, or abstract, art has been around even earlier than the 20th century. So the barrier to acceptance, and to exhibits like the one now at the MFA, may not have been so much the abstract composition of the quilts but rather two other hurdles - the fabric medium and quilts' history as utilitarian objects. By focusing on color, this exhibit effectively makes all considerations of medium and functionality inconsequential - the quilts are simply masterworks of color usage. Log Cabin, ca. 1890. The fifty-nine quilts in the show have been meticulously mounted and dramatically lighted in such a way that the colors absolutely glow. Scherenschitte, Mennonite maker, ca. 1880. For the active quilter, the exhibit is a textbook of corner and border treatments as well as quilting patterns and textures. There is a companion book, but I found the photography and text disappointing, so try to see the exhibit in person if you can. Corner details. Also problematic is Mr. Roy's statement that “I often wonder if what we know now as ‘color interaction’ was not something mysterious and spiritual to these quilt makers.” This is a bit patronizing - why is it when women use color effectively they're drawing on some quality not of the intellect but of some magic earth mother-y psychic power or something. How about giving credit to powers of close observation and planning? The quilts are, for the most part, models of precise piecing and quilting - let's assume that women who could teach technical skills could also impart lessons on use of color, even without a master of fine arts degree. Economy Patch variation, ca. 1870. However, these are minor quibbles from a feminist on her soapbox. We are very grateful to Mr. Roy and Mr. Pilgrim for gathering and protecting these beautiful quilts, a number of which have been acquired by the museum. Thousand Pyramids, Amish maker, ca. 1930. Double Irish Chain, on point. Mennonite maker, ca. 1880. Double Wedding Ring, detail, African-American maker, ca. 1940. Buggy Lap Robe, Mennonite, ca. 1900. We also saw an anniversary display of the To Boston with Love banners - small cloth Boston-themed pennants made by artists from all over the world to show support for Boston in the wake of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. These banners are in the venerable but somewhat neglected tradition of commemorative textiles - fabric creations that document and respond to events and activities. I do hope the banners will find a permanent home in the museum. To Boston with Love banners in the Shapiro Family Courtyard.
Kathie Briggs has sewn since she was a young child. She discovered art quilts and has been creating them for over 20 years.
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