Earth series

FEBRUARY 2025 | Newsletter – Updates from the Studio

Angela Heath ART
February 2025 Newsletter

textiles | painting | surface design

Message from Angela

Forgive me folks…as I have not written in a while. I have been wildly neglectful of my newsletter. Last year was a bit of a rough year as my family suffered a lost and I had to take care of family business. As I grieve the loss, I cannot help but think this is a rebirth for me in all things. I want to make things simple and impactful in my life. What comes to my mind is just to keep working and keep creating. So, that’s what I will do. The new year is exciting and holds lots of creative adventures for me.

Earth Moving
(latest release from the Earth Series)

What’s happening…New Work

Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo) Annual Exhibition 2024…Earth Moving

Since I sold 2 pieces at RoCo 6×6 show this year, they invited me to send a piece for their Annual Exhibition. I was just finishing Earth Moving so packed it up and sent it on.

Earth Moving (2024)

So, Earth Moving will run for $300. As you know, I have talked about my viable pricing before which is that I adhere to practices in the studio that keep my prices lower and more affordable. I think this is important in this day and age.

The show is running – December 6, 2024 – February 15, 2025 through RoCo Art Center. So, you can purchase from them during that time. If you do, then 25% will go to support this art center and then 75% will go to my studio. It is really a win-win.

Check out more info on purchasing here:Main Gallery
137 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14604
(585) 461-2222
info@rochestercontemporary.org

Studio Happenings
Website additions
Painting & Digital Surface Designs

Project section on the website

I’ve been pulling together materials to present as a “Project” section on the website. This is a way to consolidate the creative process and research projects that I complete. Check out this section here – https://angelaheathart.com/projects/

Opening my Painting Studio again

The last time I painted was in 2017. So much life has happening since then. My time lapse in painting wasn’t really because of being busy. It was because I just felt that I had nothing to say. My recent Earth series has really inspired me to re-explore some of the last paintings packed away in my garage. I have been sketching my ideas for what I want to explore with my painting in the coming year.

Working on new digital surface designs

My goodness, it has been a long while. Actually, I’ve been creating surface designs on and off for the past few years. I am finally ready to release a small collection of designs and prototype them as fabric at Spoonflower. I’ve been organizing my collections in my online Spoonflower store and working on branding my surface designs as a separate effort. For a long time, I’ve been looking to split off my digital surface designs and present them across various platforms. So more to come on this endeavor.

More Earth Series pieces

As of this writing I have –

(2) more 12″ squares to stretch on canvases
(2) 18″x24″ to finish sewing (similar to Earth Moving)
(2) totems 12″x36″ to finish sewing

Sharing what I’ve learned…

For me the mantra is simple – keep working and keep creating!

Learn by Doing – Commit to practicing your art
Blank Canvas – Starting without knowing where you are going when you start
Patience – Nurture your own ability
Wabi Sabi – Embrace the imperfections
Experimentation – Just try everything
Instinct – Develop a practice of trusting yourself again
No Mistakes – Everything is meant to be; no need to apologize for anything

Be well,

[EVENT] Desert Rose II still available via SAQA Online Benefit Auction

Desert Rose II is still available at the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) benefit auction. $75 with free shipping.

How to Purchase –

1) Go to https://saqa.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/saqa/product.jsp?product=1042&

2) Scroll through to No. 183 – Desert Rose II

[NEWS] Earth Moving – headed to Rochester, New York for Annual Exhibition

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.”

[NEW WORK] Earth Series – Connecting to One Self

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 –

RoCo event Sales

https://angelaheathart.com/2024/07/02/news-earth-i-earth-ii-mini-quilt-sold-at-roco-6×6-2024/

Read the artist statement for Earth to learn all about the series here –
https://angelaheathart.com/2024/07/17/introducing-new-work-earth-series/

Like my other pieces, I have also produced a video for the series. There will be more videos so you can check out the first one here –

https://youtu.be/TftuuQ90RV4

More Earth pieces

The next set two pieces, Desert Rose I and II have been released.

The first one is available in the store here –

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.

I am currently sewing on more pieces in Earth and will release them shortly. So, lots more to come. 💙❤️💜