Art & Beer Success!!

imageThanks to Powder Hollow Brewery for letting me exhibit at their July, Art and Beer event. What a cheerful and well-lit room to display in!   There was great wall space to hang pieces and I covered the window sills with art.  Everyone thought with the sun shining through Blossoms that it looked like a stained glass window.

Blossoms - fused organza, tulle & voile with yarn & thread lengths, machine quilted, melted away to form giant lace
Blossoms – fused organza, tulle & voile with yarn & thread lengths, machine quilted, melted away to form giant lace

Once I was set up I tried their Scottish beer which both I and Dave thoroughly enjoyed, enough so, once he sipped some of mine he went and got his own. Thank you everyone who stopped by, it was great visiting with all of you.  I think many people were surprised that some of my pieces include original made fabrics, sometimes melted with a heat gun or soldering iron, and some that include heat treated metals.

Powder Hollow Brewery exhibit 2016
Powder Hollow Brewery exhibit 2016

 

Through talking to all of you about my work I discovered that I have been expanding my fabric creating process, from as simple as adding dye to fabric, to enhancing a base (sometimes muslin) by adhering additional materials, to fusing material to material with no based to create my own new material.  I’m  always amazed to see all my art set up in one room, like that saying “can’t see the forest  through the trees”, at an exhibit, suddenly there’s a forest in front of me and I see that some of my work is progressing in a series I didn’t even know I was exploring.

Powder Hollow Brewery 2016
Powder Hollow Brewery 2016

 

 

Thanks again to all that stopped by, and to those of you who purchased a piece, I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.

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