My Corner of the Sky

"Girl in Pursuit"

I just submitted my "Sculptural Wool Paintings" into a highly competitive art contest - Artists Wanted : A Year In Review is an international, all-medium-encompassing open call for art -  $10,000 in grants, international publicity and a feature exhibition in Scope Art Show during Armory Week in New York City. 

It doesn't get much better than that...I busily entered all my info and then there was the dread category page.....Painting, sculpture, multi-media, a few others and then..."other." Well that's where I entered my work. In "Other." 

So, some of these categories have had their moments to shine for decades, even centuries...but what about "other" ? I think it's our moment to shine! Yes there is the grand prize, which I would so love to win...but there are "other" awards, such as the People's Choice Award. That's where I may just have an opportunity. 

If enough folks view my portfolio and click on all five stars on upper right...well then, who knows. If you'd like to know more about my "mission," click here...

Perhaps this is one of the moments when a corner of the sky becomes dedicated to fiber art. Where the rainbow of fine art includes the hues of wool and silk - not just as woven tapestries, or oddly shaped drapings, but as art which expresses emotion, engages color, requires skill, and perhaps a wee bit of courage to label it so!

I invite you all to click here and vote for me, and pass the info onto friends....but also to enter your own work! 

Bridge to the art world! Is it clay, metal, stone? No, it’s wool.

Building a bridge from the craft world to the art world takes softer footing, softer materials, softer application, except for the stabbing. I’m talking about fiber art. The kind I engage in is done not with a sewing needle, but with a felting needle. Creating works of art is done through thousands of pokes with this very pointy, barbed needle through wool fleece, aka the stuff that is later spun into yarn.  Working with this material, I swirl colors together in a very Impressionistic way to create figures and wall hangings, which I coined, “Sculptural Wool Paintings.” My canvas is wool, my paint is wool.
Needle felting  or felting in general, has long been established as a craft. You can find craft supplies and shops selling the finished goods all over the web. What you may not often find is needle felting in the category of fine art. And yet, the beauty, the texture, the imagery is easily comparable to paintings and sculpture. It’s just a paradigm shift…a soft, fuzzy, vibrant and natural one!