Artwork Taken to 4 Ravens Gallery and a Start to a New Piece

Artwork Taken to 4 Ravens Gallery and a Start to a New Piece

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Lots of people have asked to see my artwork again after it’s framed. I got three pieces back from the framers and took my work down to 4 Ravens Gallery  in Missoula, Montana yesterday.

Framed textile artwork depicting a landscape with sunlight streaming between two tree trunks on to foreground of rocks and flowers.

Sunlit Dance 14″ x 16″

Textile artwork felted landscape depicting an autumn tree.

Autumn Symphony 14″ x 16″

Textile artwork depicting a felted tree trunk with a branch, leaves and lichen.

Hanging On 14″ x 28″

If you are interested in any of these pieces, please contact 4 Ravens Gallery directly.

Now on to the next piece! I found another piece of hand dyed silk in my stash and it’s ready for nuno felting.

Green hand dyed silk with orange highlights.

Here’s the piece of silk. I have decided to try another floral based piece. I haven’t created one of those for a while, so ‘gasp’, no trees. The bits of orange remind me of Indian Paintbrush so I think I will see what I can come up with based on those as the main wild flower.

I went searching through the wool that my friend Paula gave me and found this lovely white merino that seems to be about 18-21  micron. I have run out of prefelt but this will work great for nuno felting.

Nuno felted green silk with highlights of orange.

Here is the piece after I have felted it. Now on to designing the flowers and background.

 

 

 

21 thoughts on “Artwork Taken to 4 Ravens Gallery and a Start to a New Piece”

  2. Good luck with those pictures Ruth, though I doubt luck will come into it. They’ll fly off the gallery walls.
    It’s amazing what a difference felting that piece of silk has made to it. In the picture of just the silk, my first comment was “other way up”. I could see trees in it as well as plenty of room for flowers. Then in the picture of the silk felted the trees had completely disappeared.
    I’m looking forward to seeing the Indian Paintbrush flowers and what else you add to it.
    Ann

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    1. Thanks Ann, I hope the summer tourists will scoop up a bunch of them. The dyed fabric does always look different after felting. I try not to decide on which way it goes before felting. I do think that “the other way up” is going to be the answer.

    1. Thanks Ladies! I hand dyed that green backing as opposed to “shop bought” the others. It definitely makes a difference. But that adds one more step to the time spent.

  6. I’m playing catch up with blog posts this evening Ruth so I’m reading them in reverse order! Apologies as I’ve just read your other two posts where you explained how the whole piece was created!

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  7. They are all lovely, my favourite is the middle picture, with the yellow sky and the tree. Looking forward to your next work.

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    1. Thanks Marie, I’m glad that you like the autumn landscape. I’m in the midst of the next one so more soon.

  8. Ruth these are fabulous. What I love is that they hold your attention from a distance but give more of a story too, close up….and framed – they are immediately ‘elevated’….I’m sure they will fly out of the gallery.

    They don’t appear to be behind glass! Or did you photograph them before the glass went in?

    Looking forward to your next production….
    Xx

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    1. Thanks Antje! I try to get the “close up” and the “distant” view interesting. I don’t use any glass with my pieces. I find that the glass takes away from the textural quality of fiber art especially my pieces that have 3D components.

  10. It’s amazing how a frame and a bit of a “breather room” between it and the artwork just makes everything pop. Love it!

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