First Star Farm

Throw Back Thursday Quilt
1984

Scrap Pieced Traditional pattern using untraditional cotton fabrics. Three houses set among tree blocks is inspired by our New England antique cape home which was being restored at the time. I made each house block different, reflecting all of our decision-making processes. 

Published in Quilters International, now defunct, about 1991 or earlier...

9/11 then- Our Grief is Not a Cry for War

I was raised in NJ and had some friends tell me stories of that day- how folks in nearby office buildings could see the people in the Towers holding hands, forming a chain, to snake their way down the stairs before the buildings collapsed. 
I did respond to that then and I'm reposting it again. 

 Intuitive curved piecing, bonding, painted. Net, organza, and cotton.  2001   35x56

the flag flies behind the towers

painted hands circle the border

title written on the Hudson River

original mock up

Infused with Delight

Infused with Delight is a journaling result from my latest Stalking the Wild Print Workshop.

(see workshop tab at top of blog for description)

It's an organic, fun and absolutely simple print making technique!

finish, folded

left threads, added silk organza prints

center fold out

love tearing the edges of the pages for undulating side view

outlined some prints with marker and thread

I like the way the stitched outlines show on reverse

added words with simple iron on image transfer

some pages received extra paint to highlife the leaf prints

love the way this journal presents texture in touch, feel and sight

the limited colors tie the book together. This page has a bit of the plastic sheet I work on sewn in.

some of the prints were made with fabric, which are raw edged, and sewn in

don't know why I love doing these so much but I'm 'infused with delight!'

October Newsletter

Hi Everyone!

What a beautiful Fall we’re having. I hope you’re getting out to enjoy the Fall Colors!

I am trimming my workshop offerings as I head toward a partial retirement but here are 2 with sign-up deadlines coming up-

1 Join Wen Redmond And Michele O’Neil Kincaid

Sign UP Deadline Dec 10, 2014!!

Fiber Art Directions!

Feb 28 to March 9 2015

Come enjoy good food, fine vessel, Caribbean, and quilting!

Select from 6 stress free, fun workshops!

Questions and booking, please contact Gloria Cook, Cruise Consultant

Toll free or 888-719-7698 email gloria@cruise-consultants.com

Itinerary http://tiny.cc/baa0mx

Or

http://cruise-consultants.net/quilt/caribbean/gem/gem.htm

puzzle quilt

holographic work

piecing in the flow

2 Hudson River Valley Art Workshops Dec 4-7


Greenville, NY

Holographic Memories and More
           

         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 picture!


Some pre-workshop image preparation.

info http://www.fiberartworkshops.com/fiber-art-workshop-instructors/wen_redmond.htm


Greenville, NY 

holographic work with hand painted and thermal fax silkscreen borders

side view

and

There is a list of my workshops on my blog tabs on top-  http://fiberartgoddess.blogspot.com

and if you scroll my blog - there are posts about different workshops.

and I have occasional sales on my Sales Blog-  http://wenredmond.blogspot.com 

Published

500 Traditional Quilts- 3 early works

Upcoming Exhibits

NEW DIRECTIONS ’14, Barrett Art Center’s 29th Annual National Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition

            Our distinguished juror for New Directions ’14, Lynne Warren, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, has thoughtfully and carefully selected 52 works by 74 artists from a total of 653 eligible entries from 202 artists nationwide.

            The New Directions ’14 exhibit will be on display from Saturday, September 27, 2014 through Saturday, November 8, 2014 in the historic Barrett Art Gallery 1850’s townhouse, located at 55 Noxon Street, Poughkeepsie, New York

Multiplicities: New Directions in Fiber- IMAGO Foundation for the Arts 


36 Market Street
Warren, RI 02885

On View Friday, October 17 - Saturday, November 8, 2014
Artist Reception October 24, 2014

Exhibit Invitational ‘Living with Craft’ Wayne Art Center, 413 Maplewood Avenue, Wayne, PA 

Exhibit Invitational "Fibrations" Great Hall in Springfield, VT. Opens on November 7, 2014, and go through Spring 2015

Radical Elements Foundation Arts Center, Silver Springs, MD

Dinner at 8, Houston at the International Quilt Festival. TX

SAQA Auction, ‘When I think of You’- sold

And a big YES from Quilt National!

Local exhibits at 100 Market St Alternative Gallery and New Hampshire Art Galleries Portsmouth and Emporium Gallery South Berwick Me

DVD”s

New DIGITAL FIBER Technique!

Textured Photography!

Explore a new avenue for your quilt art using a combination of digital photography and textured backgrounds.

http://www.interweavestore.com/digital-imagery-in-fiber-art-dvd

Holographic Memories DIGITAL FIBER Technique DVD

Now available as download and on sale!

Capture your loved ones or favorite subjects in lifelike imagery.

http://www.interweavestore.com/holographic-memories-workshop-download

PROCESS

If you’re curious about my process, I have done a blog post about my process of "Amazements of the Tender Reflections" that was accepted in Houston at the Quilt Festival.

http://fiberartgoddess.blogspot.com/2014/05/amazements-of-tender-reflections.html

Thanks!

What inspires me?

I was invited to join this blog hop by Cheryl Rezendes. Her blog is here.
What inspires me? What is my process? Here goes!
What inspires me?!
Everything!
Over the years, one develops an 'eye'. You see what you know. Vista's grow larger and more sensitive as openings to the soul become more and more frequent. 

I take myself off into nature and the ideas come. They bubble out from my unconscious in bursts from the universe.

I am a mixed media fiber artist. I am a process person. I’m passionate about coming up with ideas and working out the kinks. This leads to more discoveries, an evolution.  

I make the art and then the art makes me.

Kittery Point original photo

            Part of my process is photography. I can see the most exquisite scenes or combinations of patterns and want to share that beauty. My art represents these moments.

            They are what lie beneath. I bring them back to share, to remind, to remember. These moments become my source, my well. I hope to bring that energy into my art making, to communicate the positive.

cropped and filtered

            Layers peeled back reveal the source, the inspiration, and my mad desire to capture thoughts, dreams and the beauty of nature.

manipulated 

Fiber art is on the cusp of a wave. Fiber artists are evolving our medium to a new level of perception. Using textiles to create art is breaking the boundaries of the art world. Fiber as an art form is highly collectable right now because it is so new.

color added

What does one do, who sees visions? Experiment. Break rules. Expose people to new ways of seeing. Art, to me, is about moving forward. Creation gives me ideas. My passion is to put them into art.

I use my medium, fiber!

finished triptych
Each work is individual and a communication between my inner imagination and later, the viewer.

published in 500 Traditional Quilts

Jonathan's Dream

 'Jonathan's Dream' 1985, is a folk quilt based on our home at that time. Daughter in doorway, dad with cows ( we had them at that time) myself and my son on right.

First Star Farm

 First Star Farm'  1984, 1984, isis a traditional house; tree blocks with a charm twist. I used all different fabrics to construct this piece.

First and Last Star

'First and Last Star' center star has points from a striped fabric coming together to make another design. The swags are 3-D, not flat and my children's hands are quilted in the interior between the leaves.

Workshop series- Holographic Memories

Holographic Memories or Holographic Images Workshop evolved when the computer, digital camera and printing were available in the early 2000's.  I have loved photography since I was in my 20's and now I could use it in my art! 

I print on a variety of fabrics and substrates and have a workshop dedicated to that called Digging into Digital Printing. An exciting workshop too.

This workshop evolved from printing on transparent materials, specifically  silk organza.

Fog Rising- 3 photo placement 

I began layering it on my media media work, when I noticed it created a shadow image as I lifted the printed silk from the carrier paper. 

Fog Rising detail sideways to show effect 

Whoa! 

I set to figuring out how to present this in a fiber construction that makes a 3-D image when viewed. 

The Holographic technique was born!

I published this in Quilting Arts Magazine, 2007 and was invited to do a Quilting Arts TV show, the second TV series.

It is available as a download from Interweave. (Link on the right sidebar.)

Now I share this technique in workshops. I have several coming up including a Cruise this winter. (Please click on the tab at the top of this blog on Scheduled Workshops for more information.)

Description

Create your own holographic image with this inventive digital fiber technique!

Using your imagination and digital photographs, capture your loved ones or favorite subjects with an innovative 3-D effect. 

Each student will mount and finish an 8 x10 piece. Some pre-workshop image preparation.