modernist aesthetic

Working in the Garden 2000 synthetic silk, newspaper, sewing thread, smocking Piila Saksela lives in Finland. She is 72 years old now, ...

Last Days Before Dying, 2007, acrylic, ink,embroidery, hand made paper Patti Roberts Pizzuto uses an earthy combination of acrylic, embroid...

Paterson 2003, diptych, acrylic on canvas 348 x 287 cm. Francoise Sullivan is a role model for women artists. She is a mother of four and ...

O Canada Animation (1970) The 71 mouths forming the words to the national anthem are embroidered in red lips and white teeth on cotton. In ...

Wish List, 2008 sugar paper, chalk, ribbon, hair gel, nail polish, plaster, paint, petroleum jelly, polyethylene and rubber gloves I read M...

Black Finery 2008 Cotton sateen, cotton batting, machine pieced, appliqued, embroidered, hand quilted. 64 x 64 inches square. This piece is ...

Star Connection, nylon, natural dyes, 68 x 83 inches Yoshiko Jinzenji lives and works in Japan and in Bali. Her quilts are simple and t...

John Mawurndjul is from Maningrida, in North Australia. He was born in 1952 and has been intensely prolific for thirty years. Marda...

Wisdom Nerve paint, wool, silk, thread, objects on felt 72" x 72" 2006-2007 In 2007, I took a four day workshop with Sue Hammon...

Thread Suns, 1999 Ase Ljones is from Norway. She uses hand stitching to make very contemplative surfaces relating to nature. I read abo...

Memory of Wikwemikong detail 2008 I have started this new blog to give myself a place to keep images of art made by others that I am moved ...