Recently, I posted a series on An Artist’s Voice, and I want to give you an update. What preceded these posts and headed me in the direction of seeking out my own voice was a class I took with Elizabeth Barton. When the subject came up I said I sometimes think an artists voice is, […]
Author: turtlemoonimpressions
As a native plant gardener, the natural world is phenomenal and so much of the man-made world - our architecture, our cities - are stunning accomplishments. They exist hand in hand in both beautiful expressions and sometimes disastrous manifestations.
Our entire existence with the natural and the invented is intertwined – each dependent on the other, even as my art evolves, each breathing in the wake of the other.
As a mixed media artist - textile, paper, printmaker - various substrates and mediums - surface design is one aspect of the process that I love. I thoroughly enjoy the play with color, value and construct, particularly the improvisation which starts with one thing, an idea, a glimpse of a vision, perhaps something that captures my eye for a moment in time and it grows organically. I become focused on whatever piece I'm working on and follow my muse to find my way.
You Rock Wen!
The Rocks Are Smiling won an award for Wen Redmond at the MQX Quilt Festival in Manchester, NH this week. Her fabulous, abstracted photograph on fiber is an innovative construction and one of the precursers for her mini “puzzle quilts,” recently published in Quilting Arts Magazine. I’ll be posting more of these […]
April One Four Challenge, Week One
April’s One Four Challenge is a more or less free month over at the Captivate Me blog. You can use it however, although it’s billed as a Review month. But I’m using it to post the rejects – the ones that didn’t make the cut for one reason or another, but I still like something […]
Turtlemoon Impressions 