Donna Sharrett

Hitkwike Pocantico River - Contemporary Mixed Media Botanical Textile Leaves

2021

This contemporary mixed media botanical artwork by Donna Sharrett is composed of fabric, trimming, thread, guitar strings and ball-ends, and framed in museum glass with all archival ...

In this contemporary mixed media textile artwork, an eastern redbud leaf is composed of delicately stitched donated clothing, textiles, notions, buttons and guitar string ball-ends, ...

In this contemporary botanical textile, a group of leaves in various shapes are composed of delicately stitched donated clothing, textiles, notions, buttons and guitar string ball-en...

A group of leaves in various shapes are composed of delicately stitched donated clothing, textiles, notions, buttons and guitar string ball-ends, in a soft palette of pale salmon, pi...

Leaves are precisely arranged and intricately embroidered, rendering them earthly and otherwise, fibrous in both a natural and textile sense. Black in Gold (2017) by Hillary Waters F...

Leaves are precisely arranged and intricately embroidered, rendering them earthly and otherwise, fibrous in both a natural and textile sense. Space Between (2017) by Hillary Waters Fayle. Magnolia leaves...

Natasha Zupan beautifully unites the old and new, combining the innovation of her highly crafted technique with her wonder for tradition and the great Masters. This body of work explores the manipulation of surface texture, light, and the interweaving of time. It is not about translating a world that already exists, but about an entrance into a different universe. A timeless, tactile world of sensation and overlapping memory. Combining Renaissance ideals and concepts with images taken from contemporary media, Natasha Zupan beautifully unites the old and the new in her collage work. Natasha combines the innovation of her elaborate technique with her charm for tradition and the inspiration of the great Masters. Her clear, bright brushstrokes and her play of light and shadow are both rhythmic and youthful. The female figures in her paintings have an undeniable Renaissance character at the time, but they are reborn in our understanding of contemporary aesthetics. Their classic faces become modern nymphs when combined with symbols of nature and beauty. Each figurative work harbors a unique and intricate personality. Powerfully expressive, they are at once pure, sensual, innocent and seductive. From Tactile Memory Series silk leaves, acrylic, glass on canvas...

Bauer works with found natural objects. Leaves, stones, pieces of wood…ephemeral natural things, easily overlooked. And she use crochet; sometimes as embellishment, but mostly in a m...