SAQA Donation

This is Flutterby my donation piece to the SAQA fund raiser this year. It is currently part of the trunk show from the NY regional group.

It is a fabric collage butterfly created from a photograph. It contains sheer organza, velvets, chenilles, and decorator fabrics.  It is machine quilted and ready to hang. 

This is the the 20th anniversary of SAQA and I believe it has helped me more than anything else in becoming a better artist/

New WEBSITE

Holly Knott created a lovely new website for me.  It is fabulous to see my work like this. check it out.  http://wwwPatricia Mattison.com

Collage Maniahttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4TjKJ6852SQ/SdNiiV5MxNI/AAAAAAAAANI/GSKQbHGn9wE/s1600-h/MattisonPCollage3.jpg

Well I haven't been posting much, but have made 3 fabric collages forVirginia Spiegel's  Collage Mania.  Having lost both parents to cancer this is a great fundraiser to support.

The first is a quilted collage called Winter Birds  using rusted fabris from Lois Jarvis.

The next is Winter House-----gee can you tell it was a long winter here?

The last is watercolor and fabric collage on watercolor paper of a Japanese Temple.

New Computer, new work-MY Son is Beyond thisRainbow

My Son is

 Beyond this Rainbow

I was lucky enough to be requested to create a commission for a mother who lost her dearly loved son to suicide last year.  She had many elements  to be included  as well as his portraits over many years. She selected an excerpt from a book about clinical depression and suicide.  This is written in the center and requires stepping up to the quilt to read it.  He loved robotics, motor bikes, gargoyles and his mother likes to think of him as beyond a rainbow.

These are some of the photos from the work in progress.

new work and the SAQA auction

I have the 12x12 piece Together in the SAQA auction that starts November 10, 2008. There are many beautiful works donated to this auction. Everyone should take a look at SAQA.com to see all of them now in advance.--an update to say I am delighted this sold in November at the auction. I will miss it.

I have been working with fabric collage on watercolor paper and canvas. I have tried applying gel matte medium and have had incredible results. This is great if you are not looking to quilt the fabric. This is an example:

AQS Quilt Expo 2008

Yay!!! Morgan was accepted for the AQS Quilt Expo in Des Moines in October. I am so pleased and excited. I let my online friends and my own children know as soon as I heard today. It was accepted into the fabric art division.

I do love this quilt!

I hope to get some feedback from those of you attending the show. I am going to try to get there. I have been busy with commissions and traveling. Not too much time spent blogging I am afraid. I will work on some images from my shibori class in New Mexico with Yosiko Endo. We had too much fun.

New work

I have been hard at work on several fiber collages. I finished The Perseid Meteor for a show called A Personal Landscape to be displayed in the Tyler Gallery at the State University of New York at Oswego College in August. It is based on a copyright free photo from NASA. It is created with hand dyed and commercial cottons, upholstery fabrics,chenille, velvet, tulle, silks, organza. It is 44x66 inches. this is larger than I usually work, but the finished quilt is spectacular , if I say so myself. Well, if we don't like our own work , who else will?