Live Water-- detail
Well Gosh Darn!!!! If you know me well you know this is NOT what I have just spit from my mouth. I truly thought this piece had what it took to get selected for Quilt National. The upside is that I can now market the heck out of this piece. Had it been selected it would have been traveling for the next 2 years. Part of the highly restrictive rules of QN is that you can't post the work to anything but your own website. Fear of someone else copying and reposting my work kept me from posting when I completed it. So NOW you can see it in all its glory. This piece finished out at 70" x 105" in three panels. It is a happy piece that takes you to another world. The price is $9750. If you'd like to receive a higer resolution image of this, please email me and I'll get it right off to you. The back side has a similar imagery done in dyes and pigments-- so it could hang against a curtain wall (an interior glass wall) and both sides could work for you.
One of the trickier aspects of making pieces this large is that there are so few venues that will allow pieces of this scale. So my new marketing plan is to send out portfolios to art consultants and architectural firms that have the audience I am seeking.
In the meantime I'll work out my frustration discovering some new avenues with the potato dextrin and see what my next major thing will be. The upside is that my studio is getting a cleaning it hasn't had in over a year.
Good news has also come this week. Barnes Jewish Hospital has selected Burning Leaves to hang in its lobby area. This is a major piece that was most recently shown at William Woods University-- Celebrating Creativity. Thanks to my agent Sandra Kolde. I really appreciate her keeping my work in mind when talking with major accounts. Although I would much rather sell my work outright, leasing provides a foundation that pays my studio rent and frees up my attention for creating.
Now that I am no longer wondering about QN I can get back to wondering if the sky is falling in the stock market. Oh joy!
2 comments:
I'm sorry it didn't get in. It's exquisite!
I had the fortune to visit quilt national and while there were several pieces i loved, may i just say that this piece of yours is better than at least 80% of what was there. truly. i dont know sometimes what goes on in the decision making process. and i dont mean that as a diss on the judges of quilt national. but i just wanted you to know, which i am sure and/or hope you do, this piece is totally qualified. so i hope you didn't feel bad in any way. sometimes thats just life, right?
i love your work. i just found your site today and i'm going to bookmark it! you inspire me, your use of color and shapes and i love how you do other things with embellishments, etc.
happy quilting!!
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