Sometimes I wander
Through the woods
near lakes and streams
watching
to see what catches my eye
to see what natural joys
will enter my heart
bidden but never expected
it never seizes to surprise
and amaze
I bring those stimulating muses
returning
to my studioto show up again
in artful inspirations
I am very pleased to
announce that my work is featured with the 37th TSGNY Members’ Web Gallery for
Spring 2025.
Noticing
Digital Mixed Media
Delighted to have my work included in SAQA’s Virtual Gallery Connection with Fabric.
https://www.saqa.com/art/online-galleries/connection-fabric-saqa-virtual-gallery
Lovely to be accepted into Fantastic Fibers 2025!
Digital Fiber
Materials- recycled book pages, artist printed digital silk organza, scrim, pearl cotton, stitched text, hand stitching.
Techniques- manipulated artist imagery and inkjet printed by artist on digital ready materials.
A divided photograph, printed on old book pages, fractures the view while the same image, printed on digital silk organza, floats above creating an almost 3-D effect. A collage of white silk organza with scrim and tissue lifts creates a surround. Machine and hand stitched.
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Text- The old walls glisten with age
setting off a single arched window,
shimmering a golden radiance
from the sunlit vista beyond.
The distance rumble of ocean waves,
fill the nearly empty room,
echoing from the bay below.
Catching smells of damp salty air,
I felt transported across the ages
to when Iona Abby was first used.
There’s a certain peace within
as if the prayers of so many, so long ago,
still reverberated, bound in its walls,
captured in stone for me and
anyone else who cares to listen.
Exhibit is March 18th to May 3rd, 2025 at the Yeiser Art Center, KY
Online Workshop! Fibre Arts Take Two
https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/courses/wenredmond
One of the most delightful aspects of digital printing is making your own surfaces to print with. We’ll create backgrounds, photographs for sneaky layering and printing surfaces, touch on simple transfers and collage.
Participants will learn to create distinctive and customized printing substrates using fabrics, art papers, interfacing, mediums and other created materials. The types of substrates that can be used are nearly limitless!
Participants will combine their photography with unusual substrates viva sneaky layering techniques and other photo blending app’s.
A wonderful Experience!
retro post-
I had a solo exhibit at the Virginia Quilt Museum
https://www.vaquiltmuseum.org/service/the-creative-hand-by-wen-redmond
More work is available right now at the Virginia Quilt Museum's gallery store!
Flow Deep was juried into The Center for Contemporary Art NJ exhibit
https://ccabedminster.org/event/2025-international-juried-exhibition/
Two of my works, To Thaw, To Release, To Relinquish
and The Road Begins
were juried into Maria V. Howard Arts Center’s, NC, national exhibition: HANDCRAFTED. HANDCRAFTED is very competitive, 81 artists submitted 225 entries for consideration. 84 works of art were chosen to be in this year’s show.
Received this delightful news!
Congratulations! With 275 entries by 84 artists, you are one of 44 artists selected for MFA's Digital Directions 2025 by juror Jennifer Figg!
I’m absolutely thrilled to receive this notice.
Congratulations on winning an Honorable Mention award for Drawing a Breath in Digital Directions 2025 at Maryland Federation of Art!
https://mdfedart-digitaldirections2025.artcall.org/pages/web-gallery?page=3
Excited to share I made an appearance on The Quilt Show, #3602, Jan 19 2025!
“On the next Quilt Show, Wen Redmond takes her art to the next level with her experimentation in fiber, mixed media, and photography—pushing creative boundaries in ways you've never seen before.
Trailer for the show: https://thequiltshow.com/blog/trailers/trailer-3602-create-holographic-and-textured-images-with-wen-redmond-spider-web-quilt-block-with-ricky-tims
Images from the SAQA exhibit catalog for Abstraction. Opening soon in Germany!
I'm pleased to announce my book,
Explorations with Collage! Merging Photographs, Paper & Fiber
is releasing end of April. Pre-order now!
https://schifferbooks.com/products/explorations-with-collage?_pos=1&_sid=4f6fd3f09&_ss=r
Explorations with Collage! Merging Photographs, Paper & Fiber
Join New England artist and teacher, Wen Redmond on an experimental journey that continues with new digital processes ideas. Helping people go with the flow for over 35 years, Wen invites you to make it your own!
Wen shares her innovative techniques for creating 21st century art!! Use the unconventional ideas in this book to add to your mixed media projects, fiber art, or as stand-alone photography. Readers will push the boundaries of their work beyond the typical fabric or paper printing substrates. The only limit is your imagination!
The book centers on merging digital processes with collage and mixed media for unique textural works. Combine color, texture, text and imagery to communicate feelings, memories or an appreciation of our natural world. Experiment and get inspired! Break through to expand your art using digital processes and make you own artistic voice sing!
A Day in the Woods has been invited to The Language of Pattern: The Quilter’s Lexicon at Highfield Hall & Gardens, MA Feb -May of 2024 Reception for the exhibition, Tuesday Feb. 6th from 3-5
and was selected as Artist of the Year finalist in this mixed media art exhibit!
https://circle-arts.com/aoy23_announced/
Layers of Meaning was accepted in Art Quilt Elements, 3/24 to 4/27. https://artquiltelements.org/
Received award of merit for “Opening” and two others in the finalist section at Grey Cube Gallery
https://greycubegallery.com/current-show/index.html
A lovely article about my Fibre Art Takes Two interview.
https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/articles/wen-redmond-artistic-journey-unveiled/
Big reveal, my second book will be coming out
this spring with Schiffer Publishing, Explorations with Collage! Merging
Photographs, Paper, and Fiber. Available for preorder on Amazon! LINK
If you’re going south this winter, I have a solo exhibit at the Virginia Quilt Museum, Jan 9 to March 29, 301 SOUTH MAIN ST, HARRISONBURG, VA 22801 https://www.vaquiltmuseum.org/service/the-creative-hand-by-wen-redmond
My work, To Thaw, To Release, To relinquish, won 3rd place at New Hampshire Art Association’s Joan L Dunfey Exhibit, Portsmouth, in November.
Delighted to share my article in Quilting Arts Magazine on Textural Transfers. Digital copies of the magazine are available: https://www.quiltingdaily.com/product-category/magazines-ebooks/quilting-arts/
PRC Members Exhibition Delighted to share my work is included in an exhibit at Photographic Resource Center, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge, MA 02140 https://www.prcboston.org/product-category/your-work-here-2023/
My work was juried into Digital Alchemy: Transforming Pixels into Emotions. A Virtual Exhibition December 2 to January 20, 2024 Woman Made Gallery | www.womanmade.org
‘Always’ has been selected for Las Laguna Art Gallery’s SMALL WORKS, 2023 - Online Exhibition starts Dec 7 www.laslagunaartgallery.com
