Interview 2

I have been trying to get some flesh tones right for some time now. Part of my challenge is managing the dye process. Colors do tend to shift somewhat on silk. The other part of the challenge is my vision of the creation in the first place. Here’s what I’m working on now. A motorcyclist [...]

caption id=”attachment_211″ align=”alignright” width=”288″ caption=”Au Sable Chasm, outside AuSable Forks, New York, about 65 miles south of the Canadian border.”][/caption]I must have looked and acted as if I needed a vacation after the Portfolio went off to the printer. My husband and his father were going on a genealogy research trip to upstate New York [...]

Hello and it is good to be back from the depths of Portfolio editing. I have shipped the final SAQA Portfolio 16 off to the printer. It is a good day. Portfolio 16 is the largest book we have published to date – 296 pages of fine fiber art quilts. It is a great [...]

I have been breaking up the work on editing the Portfolio with preparations for my next “Elements” work. For those of you not familiar with this series of mine, it is basically a collection of works that span the boundaries between art quilts and kinetic sculpture. I create these works from my own hand-dyed silks, [...]

And a perfect Michigan early spring day. Albeit a bit cold. That, however, is just normal for this side of the Lake. This would be a great day to go outside and take photos of my new work-all that bright diffused light would pop the colors. During our Arizona years, there were precious few cloudy [...]

inda Colsh is an American who has been living abroad for over 20 years. She currently resides in Everberg, Belgium. Her art credentials include two degrees in Art History and a seat on the Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. board of directors. I have met Linda Colsh a couple times. I recall being intrigued [...]

I’ve been working on the editing for that new book, Portfolio 16, for a while now. It is a project that does command a lot of attention. Carol Myers in Indiana sent me a particularly interesting work called Shield. I love her work. She also had a very compelling image in one of the [...]

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I have been busy with a trip to Missouri to visit a friend or two. Unfortunately, the six inches of snow and sheet of ice that decided to cover the southern part of the state forced me to cut my travels short and head back toward Chicago instead. Ahh, that just gives me more time [...]

I met the artist, Karen Halt at SOFA Chicago when she came by the Studio Art Quilt Associates table. We initially discussed how she constructed her works and her desires to create a different feeling in her works by varying the materials used and the methods for display. Subsequently, I learned that Karen may [...]

Welcome to the first in what I hope will be a long and interesting series of interviews with artists.