Brendan O’Shaughnessy is both a sculptor and nature lover who loves the kind of plants and creatures that would make…
Posts by tag: Quilting
Award winning American textile artist Deborah Boschert uses art quilt collage as a medium to tell stories. Her work features…
Contemporary textile artists often seek to challenge traditional values and conventions, and that can make their work unique, aesthetically stimulating…
It’s hard to think about ‘collage’ outside of its verb tense. Even a finished artwork still hums and buzzes as…
Sue Hotchkis’s textile art is proudly contrarian. In a world that worships youth and the latest new thing, Sue celebrates…
It’s hard to imagine a world without flowers. Their colours and form, as well as the memories flowers hold, have…
We perceive life in layers: backgrounds, middle areas and foregrounds juxtapose in shifting ways. And we create meaning from those…
When you hear an artist say they’re putting the pedal to the metal – and they’re talking about their sewing…
This story is proof positive that the arts can bring diverse cultures together. When Parisian artist Maryse Allard came across…
Linda F. Martin found her artistic voice through textile collage, but it took a long while to discover her gift…