My aim is to incorporate my life long experience as a healer into this medium – thus I refer to my works as Conscious Quilts. I use the processes of sewing, piecing, quilting and embellishment (with thread, beads and/or paint) as a meditation. My development as an artist is now mirroring my spiritual path.
About Me
Color and texture are what inspired me to start expressing myself with fiber. Since I began working with fabric in 2008, my process has been evolving and changing. I have learned that I love to deconstruct what I see in the world into its simplest expressions of light and dark geometric shapes. From here, it gives me great pleasure to reintegrate these forms back together in abstract patterns. Learn more about my work on My Bio page.
Blog
New Beginnings
Greeting one and all. This is the re-start to my blog. The past 2 years has given me the opportunity to refocus and gain clarity of purpose. Previously I was never sure if the blog and website were a platform to be myself or promote my work (Fiber Art and Tarot/energy balancing). This confusion had …
Holy Crap!
Holy Crap! It is 2 months since my last entry! I swore last time I was going to post once a week. It’s not that I just haven’t written – but I have been busy!. I finished my very experimental piece. It has 2 titles. 1) “Firmament” – the space between heaven and earth where …
Begin Again!!!!
It has been ages since my last entry…I’ll chalk it up to a winter hibernation. SO I will begin where I am at. My piece “Shifting Tides- Turbulence” was rejected from a show – After getting over it, I re-entered it in another show “The Edge” which will be at the Oregon historical society May …
Contact
Email me: toni.f.smith@gmail.com