The very versatile artist Jennifer Smith is preparing a new "yarn painting" for exhibit within the next few months. This will be her largest piece to date and will have taken months to complete. Jen combines yarn, embroidery floss, beads and paint to create these textural, colorful collages by placing the fiber with dental tools into place on a prepared wooden base. They are most beautiful when viewed in person because the sheen of some fibers and metallic paint that is used shifts with your viewpoint. This one, entitled "Underwater World" is currently on view at the gallery.
Jen has been best known for her unique, stylistic pen and ink drawings. According to Jen, these drawings of flora, fauna and everyday items (like magic carpets) are born out of her doodles. She's a serious doodler. When Jen is attending the gallery's front desk, the margins of our notebook for recording daily notes and sales is beautifully decorated with swirls, patterns and sometimes, critters--each margin possibly initiating the sketch for her next pen and ink masterwork!
Jen has prints and notecards on display at the gallery in addition to the original pen and ink drawings and fiber collages...much to see! --cw
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