The Blue Sage Gallery in Paonia presents the show Drawing from Nature & Tradition.
The Blue Sage Gallery presents the show Drawing from Nature & Tradition, with reception Sept 17.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
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Saturday, October 30
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12am
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Blue Sage Center
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New Exhibit September 7 - October 30 in the Blue Sage Gallery!
We are excited to present fiber artist Katherine Colwell and traditional quilter Bertie Smith in the new show, Drawing from Nature & Tradition. Artists’ reception will be Sept 17, 5-8pm.
Katherine Colwell’s work synthesizes her love of landscape drawing and silk embroidery. She explores a variety of fiber media, from hand embroidery, silk paper fusion, hand-made felt, pieced quilting, two-sided and framed wall pieces, and embroidered etchings. Katherine has created drawings in graphite, pen and ink, and watercolor, on which the majority of her work is based. For the past fifteen years, a continuous thread has been the exploration of hand embroidered folding books, created from silk, linen & cotton fabrics, containing images & hand stitched text.
As a fiber artist and art educator, Colwell has been developing her unique blend of embroidery, drawing and printmaking for over three decades, exhibiting and marketing work nationwide and working with individuals and organizations in workshops, secondary art classes and in her studio and classroom at Rivendell Retreat.
Caption for Katherine’s piece: Sleeping Cedar-Luminous Dreams. Imagery based on original watercolor drawings, interpreted with silk paper, ink and beads.
Bertie Smith started hand quilting in the mid-1970’s in Leadville Colorado. She retired to Paonia in 1992 and joined the S&B Quilt Guild and learned to quilt by machine. Bertie is also a member of Thimbleberries club at The Quilt Patch in Hotchkiss and Paonia Quilt Group, which meets at the Jehovah Witness church. The Road to Dixie quilt was a 2009 Thimbleberries challenge. The challenge was to use left-over Thimbleberries scraps from previous projects. There are 49 blocks in the quilt and each block is from a different fabric. Another of Bertie’s exquisite work is a quilt called Rose Supreme which is machine pieced and appliqué. This quilt was exhibited in the Rotunda of the State Capitol building in the Colorado Quilting Council's 2003 Capitol Quilt Show.
Caption for Bertie’s quilt: The Road to Dixie. A traditional scrappy quilt, with each Jacob's ladder block in a different fabric.
For more information about the exhibit, please contact Joy at the Blue Sage Gallery,
