Burst of Color Continued

Erika Wurm
Port Townsend
415-505-5153
wiurmwares@gmail.com
www.erikawurm.com
@wurmwares

Lily Pond

8" wide x 18" tall
2023
$175.00

Acrylic paint, paper collage, embroidery, fabric, felt, wire and glass beads.

Wurm Wares by Erika Wurm was started in 2015 as a space where she could let her inner child create while celebrating her perfectly silly last name.

Erika is an eco conscious mixed media artist who repurposes materials to challenge herself creatively but also reduce waste in her studio.

Inspired by her time as a Horticulturist her work reflects her love of nature with a touch of whimsy and dried floras from her garden. She creates art to bring awareness to endangered species as well as to make art to bring people joy.

Evette Allerdings
Port Angeles
808-397-6040
eallerdings@gmail.com

Helga Winter
Port Townsend
360-385-3722 (cell)
helgawinter48@gmail.com
helgacarmenwinter (instagram)
Helga Winter (fb)

Dropping Comfort

12” x 71”
2023
$750

Cotton fabric, cotton batting, silk thread

The front of this piece was the iron blanket, used for eco printing book pages. Since iron provides a rather sad background, I added mono printed leaves.

The back of this piece is tea dyed cotton. To bring the front, batting and the back together, I used a running stitch in a spirally pattern, to resemble fall winds.

Looking inside - at the center of things - is an underlying theme that I have pursued in my work as an artist.

Human beings intrigue me: the many layers we compose ourselves of - representing our past, present and future - the different faces we wear, the knowledge that we carry, not necessarily with awareness.

The process of my work is self-discovery. The act of doing is my meditation. My work is felt and becomes known to me, only to be discovered anew through the beholder’s imagination.

Irene Bloom
Port Townsend
360-390-8641
bloomwrite@gmail.com

Color Weaves

8” x 10” $150.00
10” x 10” $150.00
9” x 12” $200.00
11” x 14” $200.00
14” x 14” $200.00

My COLOR WEAVES are bursts of color ready to make any space happy.

The technique involves weaving strips of fabric, quilting them onto a batting and background for added dimension and hand stretching onto a frame.

Each piece is one of a kind, unique in color combination and effect.

Jeri Auty
Port Ludlow & England
jeriauty@gmail.com

Joyce Brustad Gordon
Nordand
503-869-2773
2swedishchicks@gmail.com

My Apples

11” wide by 1.5” high
$300.00

Indigo dyed linen bowl; wool felt embroidered apples; beads

I have been growing espalier organic heritage cider apples in my gardens for the past 30-years.

I created this bowl of apples (the apples are now pin cushions) so I could have the fruit in my studio all seasons!

Organic apples that are espalier trained are so easy to grow and take so little space that an average 50’ x 100’ lot in Seattle can have fresh fruit to eat, canned, dried or frozen for their household and neighbors.

There are many methods to espalier fruit trees that can become a fence or step-over.

Organic to me means no sprays and honestly my varieties rarely show any blemishes and would sell in any market.

There is a Los Angeles artist group who began promoting public fruit trees since 2004 called ‘Fallen Fruit’ that I became aware of through their efforts in a ‘go fund me’ type of offer. I’ll send a story about their successful efforts.

Joyce Wilkerson
Port Townsend
360-379-4075
505-350-9611 (C)
jwweave@gmail.com
joycewilkerson.com

 

Water, Sunlight, Swimmers

Size - Medium, length 30”
2023
$695

Materials & Techniques:

Silk/linen double weave fabric, silk broadcloth  

Hand painted with fiber reactive dyes, decorative stitching

As I painted Procion Dyes onto this silk and linen double weave fabric, glimmers of sunlight and water and small fish began to emerge. This wasn’t at all what was in my mind when I began the piece. I let the imagery develop intuitively and followed my instincts when stitching the layers together.

Kate Dwyer
Port Townsend
360 531-2856
kate48dwyer@gmail.com
artshots.biz/katedwyer

Gargantua

22”x20”
2023
$600

Fabric Mache’ Vessels

I change media every five years or so it seems. I came to making these vessels after years of painting on glass and then metal and then making bowls out of thread and glue. One day I happened into a fabric store and was as always entranced by the materials and frustrated by my inability or unwillingness to sew. I brought a few small choice pieces home determined to make something of them without a needle.

Paper mache’ is an easy craft one does with 6-year-olds---a form, torn paper, glue.

I adapted it to fabric and thread using my painter’s eye for color and composition and line.

Their only function is aesthetic.

Kathie Cook
Sequim
907-978-7030
kathie.l.cook@gmail.com

Round-A-Bout

43.5” X 35.5”
2007
$5,500

Commercial cotton fabrics. Hand pieced and hand quilted.

This is a work of whimsy and the contrast of light and dark. I hope it will keep the viewer's eyes moving and discovering little surprises of patterns.

Kindy Kemp
Port Townsend
360-379-3446
kindykemp@gmail.com

Pink Rain

34 x 39
2008
Price: $2199

I dyed mercerized cotton with Procion, using low-water-immersion techniques and pole wrapping. I silkscreened with Procion dye paste and also with discharge paste (thiourea dioxide), sometimes with a third pass to color the discharged areas. For this quilt, I made one screen using a photo positive of old lace that I had xeroxed; I used thermofaxes for the other screened designs. Hand pieced and machine quilted.

Larkin Jean Van Horn
Port Hadlock
360-622-6487
larkinjeanvanhorn@gmail.com
Blog: LarkinArt.com

Leslie Ann Dickinson
Port Townsend
503-705-1497
Ldakm@msn.com
@PTLeslie

Streaming

15" x 39"
2022
$160

Hand dyed cotton, pieced and stitched

Liisa Fagerlund
Sequim
360-460-8527
fagerlund@hotmail.com

Linda Carlson
Sequim
360-504-3498
lindacarlson@earthlink.net
lindacarlson.com

Web of Color

20” x 70”
2023
$199

Fragments of sari silk, vintage Hong Kong silk yardage and metallic fabric, caught in a web of variegated thread that was created when by sewing over fabric when anchored in a water-soluble Pellon stabilizer.

Lora Armstrong
Carlsborg
360-461-9439
lora@olypen.com
Facebook: @lora.armstrong.14
LADesignsequim.com

Lynn Gilles
Sequim
383 225 6929
ikayak09@gmail.com