Artist Information:
Sharron Parker
Wake Forest, NC
United States
Member Since: Oct 2000
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Artist Statement:
As a child I chased
butterflies, scrambled over
rocks, and read romantic tales
of faraway places. Years
later, I’ve studied
butterflies and rocks, and
traveled to many of the
places—the Amazon rainforest,
craggy cliffs with castle
ruins, remote island
beaches—and I’ve never lost
the wonder of them. Yet
exotic beauty can be found
everywhere.
I use the ancient technique of
feltmaking not to capture what
I’ve seen directly, but to
create something new. The
simplicity of the
technique—combing, layering,
and working dyed unspun wool
in hot water until the fibers
lock—allows me to work
spontaneously, and often
experimentally. The shape of
a piece might come from a
bird’s wing, the color from
crystals under a microscope, a
line from the sinuous edge of
a pond meeting the shore, and
the texture from the bark of a
birch tree. I wish to
celebrate nature, not to
mirror it.
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Collections:
Arts in Embassies Program,
Yerevan, Armenia
Duke University, Durham, NC,
USA
The Marque Hotel, Winston
Salem, NC, USA
Northern Telecom, Research
Triangle Park, NC, USA
SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA
Vac Hospital, Vac, Hungary
Wachovia Bank, Winston Salem,
NC, USA
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Sharron Parker's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Sharron Parker's Portfolio. Browse Parker's body of work: As a child I chased butterflies, scrambled over rocks, and read romantic tales of faraway places. Years later, I’ve studied butterflies and rocks, and traveled to many of the places—the Amazon rainforest, craggy cliffs with castle ruins, remote island beaches—and I’ve never lost the wonder of them. Yet exotic beauty can be found everywhere.
I use the ancient technique of feltmaking not to capture what I’ve seen directly, but to create something new. The simplicity of the technique—combing, layering, and working dyed unspun wool in hot water until the fibers lock—allows me to ... |
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