Lisa Check

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Frederick MD

Iam a fiber artist with a lifelong love of color. I developed skills in all needle-crafts, weaving, quilting and embellishment throughout my lifetime. Today, I primarily work as an artisan dyer; dyeing yarn made from wool of my animals as well as commercial sources. My quilt work tends to be highly symbolic and personal with lots of embellishment and hand work.

Slave to Color is an appliquéd, pieced, and embellished quilt. It was made with hand-dyed cotton fabric, hand-dyed wool yarn, hand-dyed embroidery thread, and beads. This image shows color literally coming from the cosmos through my veins onto my hand-dyed yarn and then offered to the world with my hands. This image came to me fully formed, much like my colorway inspirations. As I wrote about the Servant archetype these questions from Jane Dunnewold struck me: “Do you see your creative expression as a “mistress?” Does it demand anything of you?”

While the Servant is not one of my inner eight, my art is a demanding mistress. My dye work demands that I dye every day. My creative spirit is busy all the time. Creation of my colorways comes to me through dreams and the natural world around me. Just as in Slave to Color, my inspiration comes from the cosmos through my hands and onto the fiber I am dyeing. Through my heart, mind, and hands, beautiful yarn arrives in the world.

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Slave to Color 2021 15.5" x 18.5" Art Quilt NFS