Farm & Garden, Sea & Shore
Mead Werks Tasting Room, Wilderbee Farm
223 Cook Ave, Port Townsend
June - August 2023
Thirty-four textile art pieces created by 21 Port Townsend, Bainbridge Island, Poulsbo, Chimacum, Port Ludlow, Sequim and Port Angeles artists. Participating artists were: Caryl Fallert-Gentry, Cindy LeRouge, Daera Leslie Dobbs, Dale Walker, Diane Williams, Donna Lee Dowdney, Erika Wurm, Evette Allerdings, Irene Bloom, Janice Speck, Joyce Wilkerson, Kindy Kemp, Leslie Dickinson, Liisa Fagerlund, Linda Carlson, Lora Armstrong, Lynn Gilles, Marilyn Heistand, Mary Tyler, Sue Gale, Terri Wolf
Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry
Port Townsend, WA
caryl@bryerpatch.com
www.bryerpatch.com
360-385-2568
Cindy LeRouge
Port Townsend, WA
cynlerouge@gmail.com
Iconic Eats
14” X 30”
$325
Materials and Techniques: Mixed media: Paper made using dyed flax roving, Computer designed images (with Carlos Zamora) printed using Spoonflower, sashiko stitching, fabric hand-dyed by Caryl Bryer Fallert, painted sticks
According to national statistics, one in five children and adolescents are overweight or obese. The featured food images in this piece were derived from icons resulting from my research involving Smartphone apps to assist overweight and obese adolescents with self-managing healthy eating. The research was a user-centered design project with the color and style of the images inspired by data collected from teens enrolled in after school and summer healthy behavior programs. My scientific research focuses on leveraging technology to raise awareness and help the afflicted manage challenging health conditions. Art inspired by these efforts helps extend the message.
Daera Leslie Dobbs
daeraleslie@gmail.com
541-300-0293
Poulsbo
Dale Walker
dalefarwalker@gmail.com
Bainbridge Island
Peach Pie
16” x 13”
$400.00
When I was told the topic, I thought of fruit, then fruit pie. Peach pie and Pie Slice filling is made up of monoprinted fabric. The peach is embroidered using tapestry wool. All hand embroidered. The placemat background is hand woven on a 4-harness loom.
Terri Wolf — Quilts
98 Paradise View Lane
Port Ludlow
916-616-1256 (c)
terriwolf@mac.com
Diane Williams
queenmab50@gmail.com
Port Angeles
The Fate
25” X 32”
$400.00
Materials and Techniques: Hand dyed and Commercial fabrics, free- motion and hand embroidery, piecing, fabric paint on canvas fussy cut then fused.
I made a beautiful late summer Gravenstein apple pie with apples fresh from my tree and no one wanted a piece. I heard a lot of excuses. When the fruit flies started to swarm over the pie, I wondered how I could render them in embroidery. I created this piece in honor of a beautiful pie that fell victim to food waste basted on myths and fears. Apples should be enjoyed, celebrated, and eaten for lunch.
Donna Lee Dowdney
Bainbridge Island
donnaleedowdney@gmail.com
(360) 490-0176
Donnaleedowdney.com
EriKa Wurm
Cozy Fox
$50
8" embroidery hoop with repurposed fabric, embroidery, hand embellished print, bamboo stuffing and dried moss foraged from my garden.
Evette Allerdings
eallerdings@gmail.com
808-396-7040
evetteallerdingsstudio.com
Busy Bee
21.5” x 21.5” x 1.25”
$500
Description/Technique: Silk painting using resist and dyes to the back of the silk. Applying dye then lines of resist, repeating the process multiple times to create depth. I then free motion quilted it with black thread.
This artwork represents an hour of a worker bee’s life collecting and sharing pollen, then back to the hive. The black stitching represents his journey around a farm.
Irene Bloom
Port Townsend, WA
bloomwrite@gmail.com
(360) 390-8641
Bento Box
8” X 8 ¼”
NFS
Bento Box, the traditional Japanese, single portion meal, is both nutritional and aesthetically pleasing. It is common for mothers to prepare a bento box each morning for their school childrens' lunch.
I was inspired to make my version out of fabric after having a bento box lunch with my Japanese daughter-in-law at our favorite Seattle restaurant.
Janice Speck
Port Townsend
janicespeck@hotmail.com
360-301-2666
Felted & Beaded Necklaces
18” x 22”
$75 each
I collect beads to string between beaded hand-felted balls. All the beads are sewn on individually, one at a time, tedious work but I enjoy it. Spacer beads are vintage, ethnic, or hand made
Joyce Wilkerson
Port Townsend
jwweave@gmail.com
360-379-4075
I’m Having Spaghetti
16” x 23”
$ 150
After I googled “school lunches”, I decided to provide my idea of a tasty and nutritious lunch for kids. Yes, to salad and some carrots. Spaghetti with meatballs and green olives - yum yum. Delicious Washington cherries and a beautiful apple for dessert!
Kindy Kemp
kindykemp@gmail.com
360-379-3446
Port Townsend
Polar Sea No. 2
38” x 47”
2023
$1725
Pieced and quilted cotton, hand dyed with Procion, using these techniques: low-water immersion, shibori, and silkscreening (thermofax)
This is the second quilt in my Polar Sea series, inspired by one of my pole-wrapped fabrics. The colors in the fabric made me think of ice, the surrounding sea, and the aurora borealis.
Leslie Dickinson
Port Townsend
Ldakm@msn.com
360-379-2404
Instagram – PTLeslie
Liisa Fagerlund
fagerlund@hotmail.com
360-460-8527
Mega Carotene
21” x 28”
$250
Hand-dyed and commercial fabric, raw-edge applique and machine piecing, free-motion stitching.
A visit to the Pike Place Market where fresh and wonderful produce abound inspired this art quilt. The rainbow carrots say, "Look at me: I'm beautiful and I'm good for you." Based on a Jerry Fagerlund photo.
Linda Carlson
Sequim
lindacarlson@earthlink.net
360-504-3498
lindacarlson.com
Lora Armstrong
lora@olypen.com
360-461-9439
Sequim
Lynn Gilles
Ikayak09@gmail.com
386-225-6929
Maggie Grate
maggiegrate@comcast.net
Port Townsend
Marilyn Hiestand
wovenwind793@yahoo.com
Port Angeles
Eat Local
20” x 24”
Price: $200
Paper, cloth, Watercolor and collage
I like the idea of eating local as explained below:
Local food (or "locavore") movements aim to connect food producers and consumers in the same geographic region, to develop more self-reliant and resilient food networks; improve local economies; or to affect the health, environment, community, or society of a particular place.
What are the benefits of the eat local movement?
Eating locally helps preserve local and small-scale farmland. Reducing the distance food travels (food miles) cuts down on associated fossil fuel consumption, air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. Supporting local food helps preserve cultivar genetic diversity.
Mary Tyler
Chimacum
tylerstudio@olympus.net
360.732.0599
mbtyler.net
Who Eats That?
25” x 25”
$800.00
People when confronted with an unfamiliar and unknown food will usually recoil in distaste. For example, if not introduced early to calamari, blood sausage, kale or purple potatoes the normal reaction is rejection. When we spent a year in Southern China, it was very difficult to explain cheese to my students likewise I had a hard time with the buckets of pigs' blood in the market. Who Eats That! Is a statement about the unfamiliar.
Sue Gale
msgale63@gmail.com
Poppeezz
22” X 34.5”
$225
My inspiration for this piece was from a watercolor painting a friend’s father painted of his garden in England. Work is fussy-cutting the poppies and surrounding fabrics to create the garden effect. Commercial fabric, machine quilted, and hand beaded.