Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Katherine Glover, 1st in Spring work series

This piece began as an experiment with negative space.  During construction of several pieces in the past, spaces-as-yet-to-be-filled have intrigued me enough that I wondered how to include emptiness as a design element.  At last, with no pressing deadlines for a couple of months, I can experiment (as well as devote the necessary time and care to rearing our new little puppy)!  For this piece, I took a design element from a piece constructed last year, and opened it up on the panel:

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Medusa

The piece is what I refer to as a "topographical piece", which is to say that the design includes hills and valleys rather than a uniformly flat surface.  I wanted it to look as though it is rising out of the panel.  The effect is more obvious from this angle:

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Medusa, detail

I've also decided to leave the piece white, and not to alter its pristine character by applying metal leaf.  

Materials: torn khadi paper strips adhered to khadi sheets, on top of birch panel; gesso.
Dimensions: 36" wide x 36" high x about 4.5" deep.


Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Katherine Glover in Fiber Art Now Magazine

Please enjoy this article, "Big Paper", appearing in the recent issue of Fiber Art Now Magazine.

The article's first-page piece is my work, Fire in the Lake.

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Materials
Handmade Indian Khadi paper, colored with fluid acrylic, on birch panel.

Measurements
40" wide x 60" high x 3" deep


The colors, wave patterns and energy flow in “Fire in the Lake” remind me of both leaping flames and the swift water currents.  In nature, the flow of heat in a fire follows the same laws of physics as the flow of water.  This piece attempts to incorporate the energy properties shared by both -- one becomes the other, and they become indistinguishable.