"Untitled", 1994 - 12' x 18'
"Untitled", 1994 - 12' x 18' - showing scale of the painting
Detail of "Untitled", 1994 - 12' x 18'
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“My quilts are not just connections of varied fabrics. They evoke my sense of spirituality and have their own rhythmic movements that relate to my personal connections with the past, present and prayerfully, the future experiences I hope to encounter.”
Diane Pryor-Holland (fiber artist) http://www.blackerthanthouart.com/site/diane.html
“I am exploring the mysterious and intuitive link between spiritual expression and creative practice."
Wasma'a Chorbachi (ceramist) http://www.wasmaa.com/
“My aim was to create a building…which emotionally moved the soul of the visitor toward a sometimes unexpected realization.”
Daniel Libeskind (architect)
http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/projects/index.html
“My responsibility as a painter is to serve as agent to connect the viewer with something beyond my own perceptions and impulses, beyond objects and beyond the literal.”
M. Kathryn Massey (painter) http://www.masseyfineart.com/
“To create sculpture is to confront our dual nature as both spirit and body. The work must express spirit and speak to the spirit of the person who views it. And yet the work must be embodied. Making sculpture is intensely physical. Doing the work means working with and upon certain materials. It is out of this wrestling with form and matter that spirit can be known.”
Kathryn Field (sculptor) http://www.kathrynfield.com/
“I search for the signature of the Spirit.”
Chester Higgins, Jr. (photographer) http://www.chesterhiggins.com/
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Tricia Milford (fiber sculptor) http://www.cup.edu/nu_upload/Journal_11_13.pdf
"My connection with the stone involves spirituality and reverence for the spirit that dwells within. It has been on this earth much longer than man and for this reason the stone becomes the teacher, it is simply what my ancestors believe. I am the mediator between the stone and the tools; the stone and the viewer. I visualize what the stone wants to become and I strive to help it blossom.”
Cliff Fragua (sculptor) http://www.singingstonestudio.com/
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Bernard Stanley Hoyes (painter) http://www.bernardhoyes.com/
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Jean Janzen (poet) http://www.lineonline.org/JJpoem.html
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Fay Jones (architect) http://www.fayjones.org/
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Christine Valters Paintner (photographer)
http://abbeyofthearts.com/writing-art/photography/
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Doshi (fiber artist) http://www.doshifiberart.com/
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http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Tanya+Bell/5265.html
