Artists Describing Their Art:
Jean Judd - Every quilt tells a story and every quilt is unique. The common factor in all quilts is that fabric and thread are used to create a piece of art. To many viewers, cutting up perfectly good pieces of fabric into little pieces and then sewing them together again into a totally different looking piece of fabric, is unbelievable. Who would want to do this day in and day out The dedicated quilt artist and fabric collector I have always enjoyed putting jigsaw puzzles together and the same person who enjoys jigsaw puzzles discovering a finished masterpiece constructed of hundreds or even thousands of little pieces is drawn to the magic of quilt design. Each quilt design is a puzzle waiting to be put together. The design starts in the quilt artists mind and is eventually transferred into reality with the final stitch in the quilt. Many times the original design is nothing like the finished quilt but this just adds to the excitement and the design potential for the next quilt design. What starts in the mind is often transformed into a bigger, better and more dramatic finished quilt than the artist ever imagined. I prefer to make my own ...
Paola Di Renzo - Born in Abruzzo, I live and work in Sardinia .Pure amateur artist,I used to work with paper,mainly magazine paper,sand,acrylic and tempera.Nowadays I look for the pleasure of playing with colours with which I try to express feelings and emotions. If I was able to express in words what I try to convey with colours.......I would be a writer!...
Patricia Leone - As an artist, author, app developer, yoga teacher, and apprentice shaman, I am fortunate to have multiple avenues for my creativity. After graduating with a Bachelors of Arts from Denver University, I took night classes in information technology and taught arts and crafts in Richmond, Virginia. Mid-career, I accepted a software developer position in Atlanta. Although it was a radical career change, it proved a fascinating and challenging outlet for my creativity. Upon my retirement in the tiny shipping village of Thunderbolt, Georgia, my sunrise walks along the intracoastal waterway and my late boyfriendaEURtms request for a portrait triggered my metamorphosis into the artist I am today. Currently, in addition to my painting, I am on my second edit of Pageland, a story based on growing up as one of six siblings in rural Virginia in the early 1960s. My recent paintings celebrate the beauty and love I find everywhere aEUR" in a loved oneaEURtms smile, the camaraderie of siblings, sunrise walks along the intercostal waterway, and in looking out over the fields of my childhood home aEUR" beauty that evil and tragedy canaEURtmt erase. ...