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Katharine Butler Gallery Show
February 18 - March 14 --
Opening February 20th 6-10pm
Sweet Sustenance, 24x20, mixed media collage
My Featured Artist Show, is right around the corner now! I have been working like crazy on new Paper Paintings and have just photographed the final four pieces, bringing me up to 25 pieces for this show, 75% of which is new work. This has been a very productive past couple of months for me, indeed!
Sweet Sustenance is an image of strawberry picking. Plant City, FL is the strawberry capitol of the world, and they are in season now! I went strawberry picking with my family a few weeks ago and it inspired me to do this piece, as well as a close-up of strawberries which I will hang with it.
The show has an agricultural feel, as those of you who have been following along know. In addition to Barnyard Friends and Fowl, I have also included some plants and trees, nests and even a bowl of apples entitled Flavors of Fall.
My collages will occupy all of the wall space in the main room of the Gallery. The director Chris Falk joked with me and said that my name was going to max out the space for lettering on the wall!
Up until now the KB Gallery has only featured my roosters. With any luck they won't be calling me the "Rooster/Chicken Lady" anymore after this show!
i would just love to be there Elizabeth and see all your work up close, it is so very beautiful. Not just chickens! The strawberry picker's clothing is wonderful. K.
ReplyDeleteStrawberry pickers! Of course they are. I'd recognize that stance anywhere. My kids and I picked strawberries when they were young from some of the many U-pick farms in Oregon... big red juicy berries that stained our hands and mouth and left us sticky with juice and hot from the sun. This is beautiful. Good luck with you show; I hope you sell out, but even if you don't your work will bring joy to everyone who sees it.
ReplyDeleteWonderful work. A lady in our plein air group does paper collage. It's amazing and I have no idea how you are so creative with the pieces. If I did it, would look like a puzzle gone wrong.
ReplyDeleteThis piece is so detailed, amazing layers!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see all of your pieces. This one is great. I love the abstract/impressionist feel it has. Sometimes I think we must be hooked onto the same wavelength. Since I tried my hand at collage, it seems when I think of a subject I want to try, I see you've already done it. I was thinking about migrant workers just the other day and saw your blog this morning and was struck again by similarity of interests! Besides your fabulous talent, you have a very admirable work ethic. You rock!
ReplyDeleteThe clothing of the strawberry picker is actually made of paper that I painted first, then let it dry, then tore it up and glued it down. I was not able to find any light blue paper to my liking, so I made my own. this is something I am going to do a lot more of. Jo Reimer and I traded papers and her hand painted paper has really inspired me. Jo, there is some of your papers in the green grass, especially at the top, I used the yellow mesh up there too. I love the laser cut lace papers and I'd love to paint a bunch of them in different colors!
ReplyDeleteit's so fun to identify some of my papers in your work. They look great. I've gotten lots of mileage from the painted washi papers. I use thinned acrylics and paint them as they rest on top of recycled plastic bags. That way they can dry in place and be peeled off, and sometimes the drying on the plastic leaves the underside with a glassy appearance. Other times I paint the paper and put plastic on top, scrunched up or pleated, in order to get different visual textures.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth, you are just amazing! I'd love to see your drawings because I am sure you pay great attention to detail, it shows in your collages. And the one of Obama is really nice, and timely.
ReplyDeleteI would love to be at the gallery and see your work in person. I am fascinated by all of your pieces and the skill and talent it takes to make them. The strawberry picker is great. Still like those chickens though!
ReplyDeleteWow! What an awesome blog you have with exciting collage work. Love IT and will be back again and again.
ReplyDeletevery creative art, and excellent painting.
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