cher cartwright | ||||
about |
I am largely self-trained in art, but have benefited from workshops with many luminaries of the art quilt world, the most personally influential of whom are listed on my Links page. I have also studied modern art history, and this has greatly influenced the development of my work. I am constantly inspired by the work of modern painters, especially the Post-Impressionist and the Abstract Expressionists of the New York School. I am drawn to the play of color and fluidity in much of their work and enjoy the challenge of trying to translate visual effects I see in paintings into the more tactile language of cloth. All my work is machine pieced; I never employ appliqué. My piecing is always improvisational and freehand, although in some instances I hand cut large cardboard templates defining the major areas of the work and piece improvisationally within those templates. I work only with cotton fabric that I have dyed myself because I believe that half the creative process of art quilts is the creation of the fabrics. I derive immense satisfaction from the hand dyeing process, as I find the creation of color on cloth is a pure pleasure. I generally use only Procion MX dye, sometimes do immersion dyeing and sometimes employ surface application techniques including painting, stamping, screening and monoprinting. I was born in the US and grew up in the eastern half of the country. I came to Canada in 1968 during the Great Anti-War Migration, found myself in Vancouver within a year, decided it was the most beautiful place I had ever been, and have stayed in the general area ever since. I now live with my husband and two dogs on the most southwest tip of Canada in the Vancouver suburb of South Surrey, British Columbia. |
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