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Upcoming Themes
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April 1: Materiality of Surface
July 15: Exhibits/Our Public Voice
October 1: Tips and Tactics
January 15, 2010: Proportion
Contact Linda Rees for more details: lerees@comcast.net
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Creative Sustenance
by Lyn Hart
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Astrid Fitzgerald’s An Artist’s Book of Inspiration [offers] many insights … such as this one from Henry David Thoreau—
I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, every-day phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.
Below: Lyn Hart, Cereus Expectations, 17.5” x 16.5” 2007; natural & synthetic dyed wool.
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Below: Lyn Hart, Monochrone Macro Series: Agave, 17” x 16.5” 2007; natural & synthetic dyed wool.
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Below: Lyn Hart, Pinacate Shuffle, 9” x 21.5” 2008; natural colored wool, rayon, linen, silk
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Creative Non-Doing
By Pat Williams
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. . . Tapestry began for me as a fierce attraction, and has increased in intensity over succeeding years. But Ijust wanted to weave; not design. . . . Something had to change, especially after too many of the tapestries turned out to be pure blah. . . . . my husband . . . gave me The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. . . . I promised myself I would . . . read one of the twelve chapters per week. . . I began to draw every morning in addition to writing. . . . The agreement I made with myself about the drawing is to put down whatever image came to me . . . No editing was allowed on the original drawing.
I no longer draw every day. . . What has not changed is the no editing on first thoughts. It has been amazing to me to see what comes out by not editing.
Below: Pat Williams, Barking Dog, 11” x 10” 2000. The first in the series appears
immobile, almost frozen. Her eyes offer the idea of motion, albeit inside her mind.
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Below: Pat Williams, Homunculus, 30” X 30” 2002. An homunculus is the little person
inside your head that looks out through your eyes. It burst free to see the
world of its desire.
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Below: Pat Williams, Meditation, 18.5” x 15" 2000. The second in the series, having much
in common with No. 1, yet experimenting with the background.
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Below: Pat Williams, The Beginning, 28" x 30”, (c) 2002. An expanded view is offered
that doesn't rely solely on the eyes to give meaning or motion. The tapestry
presents a woman trapped by her inner self, by her immediate surrounding or by
things outside. Sometimes the extreme feeling of being trapped is the beginning
of making positive changes.
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Below: Pat Williams, Ut-Oh, 12.5” X 18”, (c) 2009. Relates to our current disastrous environmental, economic, and cultural situation.
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