Our featured artist this week is Colour with a U artist Dawn Piasta from Manitoba.
“Eh, Utopian Sky” Dawn Piasta
Dawn writes:
It
did not take me long to decide on a subject matter for my Colour with a U
submission. I had the idea swimming around in my mind for years. The
design developed as I was studying the
works of various Canadian artists. The style
that struck me the strongest was that of Emily Carr.
My
subject matter was to be a mix of wild cranberries and the Northern
Lights. Six months after our wedding, as a young bride
my husband took me, for the first time, to his family home in Manitoba.
The skies were alive with the Aurora Borealis
every night of our visit. I was bewitched
by their vivid colours. Three years
later we moved with our 8-month-old son to a farm just north of
Dauphin. Shortly after our arrival I met my first friend,
Angie. To me she was like the sister I had
left behind. She showed me how to
navigate within the new world I now lived.
She had a lot of secret places to reveal. My most treasured memory was
the days we went picking wild cranberries along the Wilson River. The
bushes were amber and chartreuse, the
berries were scarlet & crimson. This was the vision that would
become “Eh, Utopian Sky” I have sadly had to say good by to my friend,
but my memories are cherished and are now memorialized in this quilt.
I
sourced the fabrics from a resale shop. Natural
fibres of linen, cotton & silk were used. The berries were made using the Aplquick
method of applique. The background pattern developed due to the fact that my
fingers were raw from applying each berry and stem by hand (without a
thimble).
For more information about Dawn's work please visit her website. dewpointarts.com
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