I was excited to apply to a local show, Stitch, which encouraged non-fiber artists to apply. Boy, you can’t get more non-fiber than me! As I ran around the house gathering texture images from all kinds of knitted, crocheted, and hand-sewn pieces, though, I realized just how much of an inspiration it really is. I…
Category: Inspiration
Artists, concepts, themes, or quotes that I’m inspired by
Creating and Transforming
Art as transformation: to get us to new thoughts and associations
Why Abstraction?
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos. — Robert Brault, via artsyforager on Twitter
A Sense of Place
On a recent trip to Portland, I visited Annie Meyer‘s gallery, and was inspired by her artist’s statement. My landscapes … are of specific places, but with minimal colors and shapes they are more emotional rather than factual in content. [They have] … evolved into what I consider an abstract sense of time and place…
Great art is…
Great art is the result of eccentric, individual passions, not test screenings, market research, and crowd sourcing. — Sherman Alexie
Eva Isaksen
Saw beautiful work by Eva Isaksen today at Foster/White. Lots of monotype layers melded beautifully. http://www.fosterwhite.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=81
Stephanie Hargrave
Beautiful work — local, too! http://lorraineglessner.blogspot.com/2011/12/stephanie-hargrave.html
Susan Goldsmith
I’m insired by these impressionistic landscapes by Susan Goldsmith, described by Lesley Frenz on Artsy Forager: http://artsyforager.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/abstractions-of-atmosphere.