Grand Central Station

Grand Central Station in NYC has an exhibit of quilts to commemorate its 100th anniversary
here are some photos you may enjoy

Other Peoples Flowers

So lucky to have been included in Crystals' blog for
Found Object Friday-

here

Leaving Your Mark, a printing workshop

I have too many ideas! Ideas for my work and ideas for workshops.
Can I share my skills when I go crazy with ways to create??

the inked plate

 Yesterday I went to my local fiber group and my friend Judy Marble demonstrated her collagraghy method. This was so much fun I went back into my 'puter to find a folder for a workshop idea I had abandoned.

some tools

Introducing another workshop for paper, fiber or both!

Leaving Your Mark! A Printmaking Experience

Designed to Inspire so you’re Inspired to Design!

            We will experience a wide variety of printing techniques for paper and fabric i.e. natural and found items, ‘fake’ gelatin printing, foam plate, collagraphy, spontaneous mono-printing, simple resists and ‘on a roll’ roller printing.

We will create wonderful layered surfaces for any project or just build your stash.

We add our creations to a simple journal we make the last day.

1-5 days

on Painted Fabric from my Fabric Transformations Workshop

on a T-Shirt

detail

Stabilizer Substitute!

Many of you have written me to find an alternative stabilizer other than the HTC stabilizer I use for my techniques, including the backing on Holographic Images, substrates for molding paste, printing etc.

I have tried OESD brand Heavyweight Cut Away, 10" x 10 yards White
HBC25-10,  #37161  $13.95 from Erica's Sewing Center.

You can buy this product online! link follows...

http://www.ericas.com/embdesigns/oesd_stabilizers.htm

So far, it paints and takes a transfer beautifully!

Trees to Poles

Sold!
Always a thrill when a work of mine sells!

Holographic Fiber Collage

An assemblage of manipulated photographs, printed on inkjet fabrics and collaged with hand painted textiles, combining painting and digital media into a one of a kind art piece. Stitched Silk organza, Cotton embedded string, oil stick and paper.

20x25w 

Radical Elements

Radical Elements a SAQA exhibit, at Carfitz Foundation Arts Center in Silver Springs, MD is now open through May 9.

Artists responded to a element on the periodic table. 
My Element: Helium. 
Object: to create a work that references art quilts in unusual materials. 
Materials: Plastic, lightweight-molding paste, inkAID, paint, creatively manipulated digital images, transparent sheet labels and thread.
Techniques: Manipulated Digital Photograph, printed on molding paste using inkAid as a digital ready pre-treatment. Painting on plastic. Printed sheet labels. Creative stitching.
 HE-HE-HE!!
I called mine 'Lighter than Air'. 

Statement:

            Helium is lighter than air so I wanted to create a work that was very light in appearance & feel. The general ‘go-to’ concept of HE is the buoyant balloon found at fairs and parties. I wanted the finished work to have a plastic-like appearance reminiscent of these airborne ovals.

            To achieve this, I printed a manipulated photograph of fish tank marbles on to sections of inkAID prepared, lightweight molding paste. I choose to de-saturate and elongate the photo creating the oval shapes. To me, that felt like the shapes were expanding and beginning to float, emphasizing the element’s nature.

Once printed, each section was mounted on to used painter’s plastic that once served as a table protector.

            I wanted to allow some of the painterly patterns on the drop cloth appear though the photograph, creating a physical merged image. To achieve that, the top sections of the work were printed on transparent sheet labels, adhered, painted and sewn.

The effect helps to realize that lighter than air feeling.

The Rocks are Smiling

"he's shown me how to kneel at the beauty of a lichen-covered stone." Robert Genn

Puzzle Mini Quilt Samples

 Finally getting some samples for an upcoming Cruise Workshop, next year, leaving NYC 2/28/2015

 working with fabric and black and white fabric photos

 working up attachment ideas

 loose backings

 twig holders

Loading up on Spirit

running on the spirits edge- here's Paulus reading a poem by Mary Oliver.
A favorite poet.
Nature sprite.
https://soundcloud.com/totm-film/paulus-berensohn-reads

York Hospital Exhibit

This summer I was honored with an exhibit at the York Hospital in ME

 Most of the work were new collages.

Niche Finalist 2014

Two Works were selected again this year- Dawn Fire & Flown

Any Given Moment- Moment Collage Series

Plastic, paper, digital cloth, fabric, text and stitching. 

12x12 

a poem from dawn

Frozen World

Morning light creeps slowly over the hilltop

Deep blues paint the way for rosy kisses

Laid on snowy mounds

Piled at the edge of my heart.

Take the Moment- Moment Collage Series

Tulip petal, painted paper, fabric, inkjet print and encaustic medium

12x12 

2013 WHAT A YEAR!

EXHIBITS

         Interplay: Digital Mixed Media at Cotuit Center, MA

          Sacred Threads, Visions, CA 'Brainstorms'

          SAQA Auction

        Pushing the Surface, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum OH

          31st Annual New Legacies, Colorado

         Art Quilts Lowell, MA

         Whistler Museum, MA

         "An Exquisite Moment"- Juried invitational Dinner at Eight- International Quilt Festival CA, TX

          WCA exhibits- The Spice of Life & Threshold

          Innovations in Fiber Art VI-Fiber Show Sebastopolus CA

         Quilts=Art=Quilts Schweinfurth, NY

          Fiber Revolution African Tour

          League of NH Crafts Sunappe Fair and Members show

AWARDS

       Niche Finalist

       Honorable Mention Infinity Art Quilts www.InfinityArtGallery.com

         Honorable Mention Whistler Museum, MA

PUBLICATIONS

        Pages Magazine- Repurposed Greetings

        Cutting Edge Art Quilts, Mary Kerr

           Fabric Surface Design, Cheryl Rezendes

           Bound Catalog, a WCA NYC exhibit

           SAQA Journal

Upcoming Workshops

Quilt Surface Design Symposium 2014

Columbus, OH- May 26- June 8

TWO 5 day workshops!

Holographic Memories and More

Creating Textured Photographs

And a 2 day workshop- Stalking the Wild Print

Holographic Memories and More

Hudson River Valley Art Workshops     Dec 4-7

            Complete an innovative 3-D effect, Holographic Image, from your own photograph, painted fabric and photo-silk screened image. This unique presentation will amaze your friends and is so much fun to create! Each student will mount and finish a 12x14 piece.

Some pre-workshop image preparation.

Greenville, NY 12083

www.artworkshops.com

www.fiberartworkshops.com

Shop

delightful hand painted fab fabric

https://www.etsy.com/listing/157163782/hand-painted-and-surfaced-designed

sales blog

http://wenredmond.blogspot.com/2013/07/inner-heart.html

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BLOGs- http://wenredmond.blogspot.com and  http://fiberartgoddess.blogspot.com

Why I Wake Early

Hello, sun in my face.

Hello, you who make the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even, the
miserable and crotchety–

best preacher that ever was,
dear star, that just happens
to be where you are in the universe
to keep us from ever-darkness,
to ease us with warm touching,
to hold us in the great hands of light–
good morning, good morning, good morning.

Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.

by Mary Oliver

Take the Moment- Moment Collage Series

Coffee grounds, painted paper, fabric, inkjet printout, encaustic medium.

12x12 

Moment by Moment- Moment Collage Series

Paper, tissue, inkjet printout, embedded string, paint, medium

12x12 

Be in the Moment- Moment Collage Series

Paper, fabric, under cloth collage, inkjet print outs, paint and stitching 

12x12 

Moment of Zen- Moment Collage Series

Paper, tissue, sewn fabric, text, inkjet print out, paint, ink & encaustic medium

12x12