Talent dejablu

Channel:

Art

Genres:

Arts and Crafts, Contemporary, Decorative, Folk, Found Art, Lowbrow / Pop Surrealism, Mixed Media, Multimedia, Non-traditional Folk Art, Outsider Art, Political, Self Taught, Visionary Art, Wearable

Roles:

Artist, Designer, Doll Artist, Fiber Artist, Mosaic Artist, Multi-media Artist, Painter, Textile Artist, Mask Maker

Specialties:

New age folk art furniture and utility pieces, mosaic, art quilting, handmade bags and purses, wearable art

Hometown:

A bump in the road called Farmington Illinois

Other than a couple art classes in college and one stained glass class, I am completely self taught, I create what is in me to create. I don't know where it comes from but I know it is from an energy source deep inside me that has guided me my whole life.
As long as I can remember I have been assembling life's fragments, making them whole, and making them speak to the people who see them.
My fixation on sun faces developed after I moved to Oregon, where the sun seldom shines.... I have been filling Oregon with my suns ever since, each increasingly bold, colorful and a force to be reckoned with. I simply refuse to live in gloom and darkness.

In my artistic endeavors I specialize in putting fragments together, I quilt, I make multimedia sculpture and I create usable things out of discarded fragments, I alter books into art journals and life journals, I create spirit dolls out of forgotten fragments and bring them to life, I use textiles and fibers to 'paint' pictures of the fragments of memories that hold a place in my heart or mind, & of the inner workings of my mind, I also use fabric to convey political statements and to create visuals of the world as I see it. I reclaim furniture that someone else has discarded as having no value and give it new value in either my heart or the heart of someone else. I take old clothes, and remake or reinvent them... into something else entirely. All of this fragment reassembling and re-purposing has been a very natural path for me to travel. I believe in second chances.

My art is eclectic, quirky, bold, outspoken, ever changing...and so am I.

Everything is fair game, as is using things in new ways.

I use both traditional and untraditional methods when working with glass, mosaic tiles, fabric, paints, multimedia art doll making and multimedia sculpture. The end result always justifies the means when it comes to art.

I have been a featured artist in Galleries in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Oregon.
In the 70s I wrote for several art and DIY craft magazines, but writing was never as fun as doing.

None currently, I sell largely by word of mouth and through my activities online.

New age folk art furniture and utility pieces, mosaic, art quilting, handmade bags and purses, wearable art

Laurel Burch whose own work inspired me to use color boldly...
and
Jean Ray Laury a ground breaking art quilter who in the 70's encouraged me to work creatively with tattered pieces to make a new whole... and to visualize a whole where none exists, these have been lessons I have carried into my life as well as my art.

I am an active member of the online QuiltArt.com international art quilters List.
I am an active member of the Portland Oregon art group called "Coven of The Eclectic Muse".