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GERBERA DAISY 35" x 35"
ARTIST'S COMMENTS:
I weave in the slit tapestry manner of the ancient Aubusson tapestry community in France. Variations include many types, textures and sizes of yarn, dramatic hatching of colors, and some 3-dimensional elements. I love to use wool yarns, but add silks, cottons, rayons spun as chenilles, boucle, thin ribbons. In the Aubusson tapestry, color-blending occurs through the technique of hatching. I have expanded hatching to include grand gestures of color into color to enhance the design. For more texture and drama, I add 3-dimensional elements. There may be additional sections quilted on top of the base tapestry.
In the photo below I am creating a piece of the new art form I developed in 2003 which I named "woven paintings/photos". After warping a small loom in thin yarn, I choose photos or paintings. For example, in "Swallowtail at Sunset," my watercolor of a swallowtail butterfly resting on a purple flower is interspersed with my acrylic painting of a sunset.
Selected AWARDS/JURIED SHOWS/GALLERIES
2010 (Albuquerque), 2008 (Tampa Bay), & 2004 (Denver) Handweavers' Guild of America national shows
2010 Nels Steedman Award from Canada
2007 First Prize in Fiber, Gilpin County Arts Assn, Central City, CO
Third place in a 2 year traveling exhibit in 17 SW museums & art centers
Boulder Contemporary Art Museum & many other Colorado Fiber Shows
CURRENT REPRESENTATION
Noyes Artists, Denver, FIORE GALLERY, Tucson, AZ
COMMISSIONS (over 80 custom pieces since 1974)
Kenneth & Janet Hubbell, Ft. Worth, TX
Platte Valley Medical Center, Brighton, CO
Exempla Medical Center, Lafayette, CO
Kaiser Permanente, San Diego
No. Colorado Medical Center, Greeley, CO
John & Annie Denver
Syntex Corp., Boulder
Quantum, Colorado Springs
Breckenridge Shopping Mall
Boulder Crossroads Mall
Samsonite Corporation
Denver Mercy Medical Center
Boulder Chamber of Commerce
The Forum & Quorum lobbies, Vantex Properties, Denver
David Pearson, sculptor & Patricia Carlisle,
gallery owner, Santa Fe
PERSONAL
SMU B.S. & Colorado Univ. M.A. degrees in mathematics
Teaching mathematics interspersed with weaving
Hiking and traveling to photograph nature for artwork
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