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Artisans - Rose
Hughes
 I’m
a California girl. Just one that grew up and was educated
in warm, sunny Florida. It was in Florida that I studied
art and design before visiting the Golden State in the early
1980s. During those visits I knew I was hooked and that
I had to move there. California was filled with natural
wonders at every turn that offered unending opportunities
for discovery.
Upon moving to
California, my weekends were filled with new discoveries
and adventures. With camera in hand I captured many newfound
wonders. There were trips around town to favorite landmarks, hiking
in the local mountains, weekend excursions to coastal towns with incredible
beaches, and visits to wondrous state and national parks.
While I had always
loved textiles it wasn’t until the early 1990’s
that I found quilting. It was only a matter of months before
my darkroom came down as I made room for my sewing machine, and I focused
my artwork on quilting. Around 1996 I began to lecture and
teach nationally, and exhibit my quiltworks internationally. Today I continue
to work as a fiber artist from my Signal Hill, California studio.
Inspiration
for my quiltart is drawn from my love of the ever-changing hills that make up our coastal and inland
landscape, and from the ravens that mirror and mock this region’s
boisterous, passionate, and sometimes-crazy human residents. Watching
ravens, I see how they live and weave their lives among us. They are storytellers
who speak to us of relationships, moods and feelings. Keeping
an eye on us, laughing at us, they point to a layer of life that often
goes unnoticed.
Poet Mary Oliver
refers to these rowdy creatures as “an advertisement
for the more than ordinary life.” By allowing myself
to experiment with materials, techniques, and color my works are attempts to
express our always wondrous, always changing landscape and I count myself
an artist fortunate to be alive to the light and beauty of our world.
In my work I
use the idea of layers to transform fabric into the soar
and plummet of peaks and valleys, the flow of rivers, and
the sway of majestic native trees. I begin by creating a layer of strong
structural shapes that are important for their initial impact on the
senses, and the suggestion they give of the landscape.
Like a raven,
stealing and hoarding the ‘shiny objects’, I
embellish the areas of the base quilt canvas to further explore and
tie in our visual connection to the earth. I begin this process using
handspun yarns to create strong lines to highlight each shape. Then the
process continues as I add whimsy, texture, and spark by using a
variety of glass beads and magical, shiny found objects. These embellishments
used in combination with hand painted, hand dyed fabrics, imported
silks and selected textural layers bring each original piece to life.
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Poppy Dreams
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$1,143.00
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Original, signed work made from hand painted and dyed silks and cotton fabrics. It has been hand embellished with glass beads, wool yarn and cotton embroidery floss. This particular piece was inspired by standing in a place where all the green hills converge making one feel at once peaceful yet yearning to take that feeling with you.
Item Medium: Art Quilt
Item Height: 24"
Item Width: 48"
Item Depth: 3/4"
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Wild Winter
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$1,143.00
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Original, signed work made from hand painted and dyed silks and cotton velveteen fabrics. It has been hand embellished with glass beads, wool yarn and cotton embroidery floss. This particular piece was inspired by a view from the flatlands up to the mountains in late afternoon during the winter when the light turns the mountains red and the land golden.
Item Medium: Art Quilt
Item Height: 29.5"
Item Width: 40"
Item Depth: 3/4"
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Convergence SOLD
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$1,143.00
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Original, signed work made from hand painted and dyed silks and cotton fabrics. It has been hand embellished with glass beads, wool yarn and cotton embroidery floss. This particular piece was inspired by standing in a place where all the green hills converge making one feel at once peaceful yet yearning to take that feeling with you.
Item Medium: Art Quilt
Item Height: 24"
Item Width: 48"
Item Depth: 3/4"
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Poppy Fields II SOLD
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$643.00
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Original, signed work made from hand painted and dyed silks and cotton velveteen fabrics. It has been hand embellished with glass beads, wool yarn and cotton embroidery floss. This particular piece was inspired by so much rain…so many poppy flowers breaking through the dried brown desert.
Item Medium: Art Quilt
Item Height: 31.5"
Item Width: 27.5"
Item Depth: 3/4"
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February's Flight V
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$1,143.00
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Original, signed work made from hand painted and dyed silks and cotton fabrics. It has been hand embellished with glass beads, wool yarn and cotton embroidery floss. This particular piece was inspired by the fifth in a series of wild flying adventures seen in the mid-winter skys and the ravens show off to find their mates. This year the rain brought cloud cover with intense colors and light.
Item Medium: Art Quilt
Item Height: 35"
Item Width: 30"
Item Depth: 3/4"
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New Beginnings II
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$1,071.00
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Original signed work made from hand painted and dyed silks and cotton velveteen fabrics. It has been hand embellished with glass beads, wool yarn and cotton embroidery floss. This particular piece was inspired by an expansion of an earlier piece created for a Quilts On The Wall: Fiber Arts Challenge called Towards the Millionth Circle. The original designed showed both male and female ravens in relationship with the new beginnings of life.
Item Medium: Art Quilt
Item Height: 29"
Item Width: 41"
Item Depth: 3/4"
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Summer's Evening II
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$786.00
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Original signed work made from hand painted, dyed, and commercial silks. It has been hand embellished with glass beads, embroidery floss, cotton and wool yarns. This particular piece was inspired by collected visions of rolling green hills meeting the ragged mountains during a red sunset.
Item Medium: Art Quilt
Item Height: 39"
Item Width: 39"
Item Depth: 3/4"
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Morning Walk SOLD
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$1,429.00
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Original signed work made from hand painted, dyed, and commercial silks, cottons and cotton velveteens. It has been embellished by hand with glass beads, embroidery floss, cotton and wool yarns. This particular piece was inspired by many a morning walk in some of my favorite places. The colors of sky reflecting on the hills and trees are always a welcome to a positive day.
Item Medium: Art Quilt
Item Height: 50"
Item Width: 49"
Item Depth: 3/4"
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Embellished Flight IV
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$286.00
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Original, signed work made from hand painted velveteen and cotton fabrics. It has been hand embellished with glass beads, buttons, wool yarn and cotton embroidery floss. This particular piece was a fun raven piece meant to inspire others as a fun teaching sample used for my Fast-Pieced Applique method workshops.
Item Medium: Quilt Art
Item Height: 24"
Item Width: 18"
Item Depth: 3/4"
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