scarves dyed & ready to be labeled & sent to galleries

Shattered

Shattered

Digital Fiber- Image of broken glass

Images are printed onto treated natural textiles and other surfaces, combining painting and digital media into a one of a kind art piece.

Creatively stitched. Segments are creatively stitched and held together with a hand-tied bookbinding method.   12x12
mounted on 1 1/2" black painted canvas

Dinner at Eight Interview for Exquisite Moment

I have been accepted for the annual exhibition with Dinner At Eight Artists, the intrepid, Jamie and Leslie. blog here

The following is an interview which will appear on their blog.

1, What year did you make your first quilt?  Traditional or art?

I made my first quilt, self-taught & experimental with found scraps, in 1974.

Amethyst Summer

2.  What is the first show, and year, that you ever entered your art quilts?  Venue?

Quilt National has always been at the top of my list, Art Quilt 21, that is now Art Quilt Lowell, MA, Quilters Gathering, MA and my local guild. In 1986, one of my pieces was requested for the museum that became the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY.

Jonathan's Dream

3.  What is your artistic style?

I love to experiment. My work has grown though many stages. Presently, I work with digital fiber processes.

4.  Have you ever changed your style from when you started making quilts?

Yes, I have a lecture, Journey with a Fiber Artist, which shows my work as it changed and grew. Transformation is the lifeblood of my work.

5.  What other style in quilt making peaks your interest?

I’m really into digital works. I enjoy how other artists use the process to present images differently or use a consistent subject matter as their focus. Digital Collage is fast becoming my new focus.

6.  What other medium in art influences your work as a fiber artist?

Media Mix is my term for a workshop I offer using fibers, papers and a host of acrylic mediums. The spontaneity and serendipity feed the process of experimentation.

I will be teaching this at Peters Valley Crafts Center , NJ on August 23-27- Info Here

Whispers of the Positive 

7.  What do you have coming up?  Shows, Articles in magazines, Books, etc.

I’m proud to have been included in Brainstorms at Visions Art Museum, CA, recently, at Interplay: Digital Mixed Media at Cotuit Center, and upcoming, Sacred Threads, Pushing the Surface, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum OH, Niche Award finalist and interview Lesley Riley’s radio www.blogtalkradio.com

Published Articles

SAQA Winter Journal

Quilting Arts Magazine, Textured Fiber Photographs

Interweave DVD Workshop, Textured Fiber Photographs-     Info Here

Leaping Point

Books

Cutting Edge Art Quilts, Mary Kerr

Fabric Surface Design, Cheryl Rezendes

Bound, a WCA NYC exhibit

Studio Quilt, Sandra Sider

8.  Where will your art take you from here?

Hopefully, into the flow, imagination and continued growth. One of my key phrases I use about my art is- ‘Making the Imagination Real’.  One of the joys of teaching is seeing workshop participants reveal themselves, get into the flow and make art.

9.  Describe your studio space:

Recently, I have moved out of a delightful studio space in an art community and also, out of a large studio in my home into a smaller but very efficient studio in a new home. There is lots of natural light. There is the simple joy of retraction, with the expectation of how this new environment will influence my work.

10. What was the biggest challenge you have encountered in the making of your art quilt for "An Exquisite Moment?"

I wanted to use lots of color for this piece. Normally, my work is muted in tone.

I worked with a number of images, which are collaged digitally.

The colors in the piece are created by the addition of images of my painted fabrics. These layer over the complete collage, influencing or changing the final color.

 

Birds Eye View detail- see full piece on Dinner at Eight's blog (link at top)

WEBSITE http://wenredmond.weebly.com/ 

BLOGs  http://fiberartgoddess.blogspot.com

Our Bodies

Our Bodies

Digital Fiber- Image of an artist’s journal page.

Images are printed onto treated natural textiles and other surfaces, combining painting and digital media into a one of a kind art piece.

Creatively stitched. Segments are creatively stitched and held together with a hand-tied bookbinding method.   12x12

Wading Though Tall Grass

I created a series of Digital Works this past winter.

For this particular piece, I made a substrate collage of just a couple inkjet fabrics to give interest to the final print.
Here's the original printout before I worked into it. You can see the vertical line of the additional physical layer running vertically. There are 2 more such pieces.

I applied 5 dyed, silk organza, free cut squares, on the lower right, to add additional interest and focal points.
I had written onto the silk before I cut it. I enjoy adding text, readable or not, into my work.

I repeated the square motif in free style quilting lines. The repeated lines gave me the idea for the title.

Each piece was mounted on birch panels I purchased from Dick Blick. The panel sides were painted matt black first. I did a blog post explaining this process earlier. (here)

I like to create a painted edge, which to can see here in deep cobalt blue.

detail

Media MIX Workshop at Peters Valley Craft School

 Gesso???

I really love this workshop! We had a stimulating and creative time playing, experimenting with green materials, fabric & paper!

Wild Woman Painting Courageously! Susan expressing colors!

Phyllis got into the texture big time!

Now! What was I to do next???

Collage composition in progress

I think everyone was indeed surprised at how those larger Serendipity Collage Bases turned out swell smaller instant collages!

The CREW- Phyllis, Lisa, Judy, Elida, Pat and Susan!
 THANK YOU!

2 new Paper and Fiber Collages

Working up Samples for my upcoming workshop, I must create!  

The titles are part of my teaching theme.

Listen, it comes to you!

Paper and Fiber Collage

Free collage with hand painted cloth & papers.

Cotton, silk, tissue paper, cheesecloth

Digital printing, transfers, and stitching.

18x20x.5 mounted  

Detail

Experience the Moment

Paper and Fiber Collage

Free collage with hand painted cloth & papers.

Cotton, silk, digital printing, transfers, and stitching.

16x18x.5 mounted 

Detail

Vessels & Jewels

My work featured at Vessels & Jewels in New London, NH. 

 If you're going to the Sunapee Fair, it's near by and fun to shop there!
http://www.vesselsandjewels.com/

Repurposed Greetings- a new article

Cloth, Paper, Scissors Magazine has a new offering- PAGES with enchanting bookmaking, bookbinding, and art journaling ideas and techniques. 

My article on recycling cards into journals appears on p 90 of the Summer 2013 issue!

 purchase and info- here

Earthy Easy Mono-printing

 finish T's

using plastic as my mono print surface

first layer outlined in gold

shaped mono-print plate

 mono-printed, outlined with painted background

Infinity Art Quilts

2013 Honorable Mention
Infinity Art Quilts
www.InfinityArtGallery.com
Wen Redmond's is bottom right

31st Annual New Legacies: Contemporary Art Quilts

Two works to be included in
31st Annual New Legacies: Contemporary Art Quilts
The Lincolin Center Art Gallery, Fort Collins,Colorado
july 9-september 2 , 2013

Works to be Included at Art Quilts Lowell, MA

My work's Soar Frost has been accepted into the Brush Art Gallery's Exhibit, "Tangled up in Blue", Art Quilts Lowell, MA.

 And Into the Silence was accepted at the Whistler Museum's exhibit "Whats My Line"

Tickled!
Always a great time in Lowell!

Mix iT Up! MiXed MeDia CoLLage! Workshop in NJ

 I will be teaching a workshop at Peters Valley Crafts Center  

from August 23-27

It would be a exciting mix of paper & fiber, collage and fun!

Mix iT Up! MiXed MeDia CoLLage!       

Embrace the unknown and unexpected using green/free/recycled materials! Using your newly created fabrics and painted papers, generate a paper and/or cloth collage/s.

Investigate layering techniques, mediums and many more exciting collage secrets. Explore a number of ways to create unique textured/distressed surfaces to include in your collages, paintings and fiber art.

For more information:

Peters Valley Crafts Center  

19 Kuhn Road, Layton, NJ 07851

(973) 948-5200

http://www.petersvalley.org/store/html/product.cfm?id=263

I hope you'll join me!

We Take to the Air

We take to the air,

sometimes,

in fits of ecstasy, unprovoked,

gleaned form a revelation,

an opening of the mind,

perhaps a chance meeting with an old friend,

a deep conversation,

viewing a piece of art that touches the soul,

or having a heron take off in full view!

Our flight extends to the beginning of the realization we have taken off at all.

when the thinking mind grasps us,

makes the experience conscious,

we fall

back to earth,

to resume whatever we were doing.

But lighter,

for having the air lift us at all.

images taken on monhegan island ME