Away

Underneath the snow and layers of crystalline ice,
The water is still flowing,
Making its way silently,
  darkly.
Away, away,
Always moving quickly away.

ONE more collage

ONE more Collage from my Movin' On Series for ONE- One Cause, One Wednesday, One Hundred Collages. An all-star lineup of artists have donated artwork for this fundraiser to fight cancer.

MORE here!!

ONE Day Feb 16, 2011

Surface Design Conference Confluence 2011 is coming!

This workshop opportunity came with the 2005 Surface Design Conference. Dorothy is one of my fiber shero's and I was very lucky to be accepted into her workshop.
If you ever get a chance I recommend her mind bending workshop!
And the Surface Design Conference is coming up this June 2011!

I am lucky to be able to teach at this venue!

WORKSHOP OFFERING- MIX IT UP! AT SDA CONFLUENCE CONFERENCE JUNE 2011

click here for INFO
video can be seen on UTube- here

Flying with Light

You are invited

Flying with Light

a collaborative solo exhibit of artwork

with artists

Sculptor, Deborah O’Leary

and

Mixed Media/Fiber Artist, Wen Redmond

Feb 4 through Feb 25

at Lincoln Levy Gallery

136 State Street, Portsmouth, NH

Meet the Artist and

Reception Feb 4, 5-8 pm

Gallery hours: Wednesdays thru Saturdays 10 AM to 5 Pm

Sundays Noon to 4 PM

Deb's website here

Movies!

I have posted some video's on my website, including one on how to use up left overs, paint that is...

I would love feedback. I'm kinda new to the vid-making process.

No Holds Barred

The New England Quilt Museum announces the opening of NO HOLDS BARRED, a juried exhibit of recent art quilts by the New England region members of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA). Jan 20-April 9. Yours Truly will host a Demonstration and Trunk show! There is a schedule of events, not to be missed!

more info HERE

ONE

Another Collage from my Movin' On Series for ONE- One Cause, One Wednesday, One Hundred Collages. An all-star lineup of artists have donated artwork for this fundraiser to fight cancer.

MORE here!!

ONE Day Feb 16, 2011

New Website

Same Address
New Site! Exciting!
Please travel there and tell me what you think!
here

Thank you

Blue Door Gallery

Accepted in NYC at the Blue Door Gallery!

I dreamt I knew a man who was a tree. He described the wonderful lights that he could see.

Detail

Digital Fiber

Digital manipulated interpretation of a photograph.

Printed on inkjet prepared cotton satin and silk organza.

Creatively stitched.

19x27

SAQA's own Arlé Sklar-Weinstein, Director: Blue Door Gallery, was the Juror for Fiber PLUS!

more info here

non-speaking, speaking

Captured

laughing until I reach a zen moment, I remember to forget...forgetting, I remember it all again-
cycles of time, 
spoken out loud 
to my inner self.

Elmer's Glue Crackle Technique

I just learned a really cool and inexpensive crackle technique.
Paint your cloth or base. I used acrylic paint- what ever I have open or ready at hand. Spread on your glue and immediately paint with a contrasting paint.

Let it dry and watch the magic crackle appear.

easy!

Apply Elmer's Glue to painted base

spread glue with brush or old credit card

Paint without drying glue

Finished, Dried and Cracked Surface

Give Away is Finished

I was recently published in CPS and have one sealed, unopened copy to give away. Please email me at wenreddyatyahoodotcom and I will send it to the lucky winner. Thank you Everyone! We have a WINNER!!

Sense of Touch

     Ever notice how sometimes you just start to work and pieces fall together as if by magic. As if just showing up in the studio is somehow like catching an ocean wave and riding with it. And OH what a ride!

Sense of Touch completed

Yesterday I had just such a day. I put down a background and played with some collage materials leftover from another recent spurt. I ended up with 4 wonderful pieces. Sense of Touch is one. This will be an entry for an upcoming exhibit.

the starting point

detail

     I started with a manipulated and digital collage printed on a molding paste substrate. The surround is a combination of paper compositions created earlier and painted cloth. I overlaid parts with silk organza and stitched into the piece as a mark-making tool. 

      I feel I was definitely in touch with the energy of creation. A sense of touch.

New Hampshire in DE-Light!

Clouds Kissing

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in Holiday 'FUN' and the 'pleasures' of my studio.

I take myself out into the back woods- just under 50 acres with ajoining properties.

I can tramp around to my heart’s delight, creating mind reflections.

Being the age of my body and concerned about slippage, I take a stick cast off by a tree to steady me. 

Instantly, I am transformed into a Druid YoDa-like woman of the forest. 

Woman of the Woods

I am traversing looking for omens and other odd events to throw light on the thoughts harboring inside my mind. Do you see her in above picture?

Dare I Wander and Ponder?

The snow still beneath my feet,

Except for the occasional leap-

from my heart.

I tread a slow path though the woods.

stopping to stare and wonder. 
Stopping to gaze and ponder. 
These moments spinning

into golden memories.