Earth Moving is my latest work from my Earth Series. It is 18″w by 24″h stretched around canvas. It contains the “Earth” fabrics along with silk ribbons.
I just mailed this piece to Rochester, New York for their Annual Exhibition running December 2024 to February 2025. I will post more details when available.
Here my statement on this piece –
The Earth moves beneath such as life. This connection is all that we have, all that we are.”
I have a piece from my Earth series in this year’s SAQA online benefit auction. It is one of 2 pieces called Desert Rose II. My work is listed in Section 3 of the auction and runs from Sept. 30 – Oct. 6th.
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Here my statement on this piece –
“Earth is all that we have and all that we are.” This piece is part of my larger Our Earth series which pays homage to the stunning characteristics of something gifted to us all from birth. The colored and gentle striations of this piece serve as a visual reminder of the beauty of the desert.
For 2024, my theme is travel and transporting. You can travel through time, space – emotional, mental or physical. I think that travel and being transporting is a fascinating phenomena of the human experience. For me, travel allows me to connect with my Self. By using textiles and colors that I respond to deeply, I feel a great sense of connectedness and oneness. Being an “Earth” baby, many of my art pieces feature some aspect of Earth and its natural elements – land, air, wind, water, minerals, etc. As I’ve been told in the past, many of my art pieces are “soulful” and invoke a meditative energy, a sense of peace and groundedness. I would include the Earth Series in this category.
Introducing Earth
The Earth series explores the representation of the striations and rich layers found the Earth. The natural colorations and textures are infinitely abound. With Earth, I felt that pieces that used fabrics of different colors, weights, textures would be so exciting to explore.
Initial Earth pieces
The first pieces for this series were released for the 2024 RoCo 6 x 6 event for the Rochester Contemporary Art Center in New York. I have supported this event several times in the past so it was my pleasure to send my first Earth pieces there.
I was so happy to learn that both 6″ square pieces sold in the first month of the event! There were over 5,400 pieces and mine were recognized and sold. I’m really grateful and appreciative of the love and positive feedback. Rochester is a great area for art and I just love being able to support these efforts anytime I can. Check out the story here –
The next set two pieces, Desert Rose I and II have been released.
The first one is available in the store here –
Desert Rose I (2024) 12″ square
The second one has been sent to the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) Benefit Auction. This event runs this September to October. This is my first SAQA event and I’m so happy to make this event. I received a beautiful note from the Executive Director, Martha Sielman who commented about the beauty of the piece and that the colors and layers in it reminded her of the desert. That was a really nice acknowledgement of the piece. I think it will be successful.
Desert Rose II (2024) 12″ square
I am currently sewing on more pieces in Earth and will release them shortly. So, lots more to come. 💙❤️💜
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This year I want to focus on sustainable art practice and the two major shifts that I’ve had from this past year. I realize that wanting to do it all should not be my goal but instead maintaining a practice that I can is most important right now. At the same time, I want to make progress each year for the art studio. Yearly progress will move the studio to where I need it to be for the next few years and beyond towards my career retirement.
MITs. Most Important Things. What are my “big rocks” for this year? I have been tracking my progress with quilting for 20 years in this document! Read more about my 2 major shifts for the year and about my goal areas for the year. Check out my evolution here –
This mosaic quilt is representative of the vibrancy, evolution and activity in nature throughout the seasons.
Process
This quilt uses 27 different pieces of fabric – commercial cottons, raw silks, and my own digital fabric. Pieces are cut leaving raw edges and then carefully positioned on a whole piece of interfacing to form the mosaic top. The quilt sandwich is the mosaic top, organic acrylic felt and backing cotton fabric. The sandwich is sewn together using cotton thread and then binded with mitered corners.
Inspired by Like Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Through abstract representation, this quilt explores the spirit of each season from an emotional level, from bottom to top and back around.
Winter (cold hibernation)
Fall (a bit of time for grounding)
Spring (head in the clouds)
Summer (warm, connected to Mother Earth)
Spring (head in the clouds)
Fall (a bit of time for grounding)
Winter (cold hibernation)
Process
This quilt uses 20 different pieces of fabric – commercial cottons, raw silks, upholstery and my own hand-dyed and digital fabric. Pieces are cut leaving raw edges and then carefully positioned on a whole piece of interfacing to form the mosaic top. The quilt sandwich is the mosaic top, organic acrylic felt and backing cotton fabric. The sandwich is sewn together using cotton thread and then binded with mitered corners.
QUILTS, 2020, fused, whole cloth, red, orange, black, white
Artist Statement:
When you look at a flower head on, the leaves flow out from the center. But if you look the flower from the bottom then the leaves flow out and up from the center. Thus the name Rise Up!. This quilt is hand-painted with Derwent dye blocks and drawn on with fabric-marked Kona cottons. Making this soulful floral quilt was always in the plan. Unlike other quilters, I’ve waited a long time to do florals; always waiting for that unique way of looking at a subject that so many have looked at and covered. Rise Up! is appropriate for these times as we seek new looks, new perspectives to disappointingly familiar scenarios. Constantly creating, praying and rising up to elevate myself and the world around me.
QUILTS, Tales from the Innervision, 2022, fused, yellow, orange, brown
Statement: The 4th work in the Tales from the Innervision quilt series, Leveling Up represents the ascension in one’s personal life. Leveling up is the elevation to reach the next chapter, next stage, next phase, next plateau in one’s existence. This is a personal exercise for each human being and means something different to each one.
![[EVENT] Desert Rose II still available via SAQA Online Benefit Auction](https://angelaheathart.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/aha_earth-desert-rose-ii_front.jpg?w=825&h=510&crop=1)
![[NEWS] Earth Moving – headed to Rochester, New York for Annual Exhibition](https://angelaheathart.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/aha-earth-moving_entire.jpg?w=800&h=510&crop=1)
![[NEW WORK] Earth Series – Connecting to One Self](https://angelaheathart.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/aha_earth-series-cover.jpg?w=825&h=510&crop=1)
![[EVENT] Rochester Contemporary Art Center – RoCo 6 x 6 (online / in-gallery) | June 1 – July 21, 2024](https://angelaheathart.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image_ig_rococo_2024.jpg?w=825&h=510&crop=1)
![[NEWS] Welcome to 2024 !!! – Focus on Sustainability](https://angelaheathart.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image.png?w=592&h=416&crop=1)
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