Monday, February 1, 2010
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New book coming in the fall of 2024!
Available through most booksellers.
Available now through Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other booksellers.
My current tapestry is based on a oil pastel drawing I made while at the Lillian Smith Center a couple of years ago. Shadows along the path are dominant in the design.
Ongoing tapestry diary progress. This shows Jan., Feb., and March images and the day-by-day parts. Black and white are shown for days away from home.
Tommye McClure Scanlin ~ artist and teacher ~ tapestry and other things ~ Dahlonega, GA, USA
Marking Time with Fabric and Thread
New book coming in the fall of 2024!
Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond: Planning and Weaving with Confidence
Available through most booksellers.
The Nature of Things: Essays of a Tapestry Weaver
Available now through Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other booksellers.
About my work
I am an artist who observes and responds to my surroundings for inspiration. My primary artistic medium is handwoven tapestry, an ancient method of working with fibers to create images. As I seek images and ideas to interpret into tapestry I experience my surroundings a closely as I can. Photographs, sketches, paintings, and writings all are part of the research I put into my work.
I have been living in the southern Appalachians most of my life and so my surroundings are filled with natural forms of woods, streams, and fields. My eyes are frequently drawn to the myriad details of the landscape and many of my tapestries are based on aspects of those details, simplified and enlarged in a weaving.
Please visit my American Tapestry Alliance page and my website to see more of my work--scanlintapestry.com
Video presentations and podcast interviews
- "Dope with Lime" a podcast from Lillian E. Smith Center, episode 45. Sept. 2023
- ATA and San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles presentation in conjuction with ATB13, Nov. 4, 2021
- Book launch video for The Nature of Things: Essays of a Tapestry Weaver, Sept. 15, 2020
- Damascus Fiber Arts School zoom presentation about Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond, Sept. 16, 2021
- Damascus Fiber Arts School zoom presentation about The Nature of Things: Essays of a Tapestry Weaver, Oct. 27, 2020
- Gist Yarns podcast: Weave--interview 141
- Peachy Keen Podcast interview
- Professional Weaver Podcast interview
- Tea & Textiles, Handweavers Guild of America, episode 67
- TEx@ATA, online exhibit of my work
Current tapestry on the loom
My current tapestry is based on a oil pastel drawing I made while at the Lillian Smith Center a couple of years ago. Shadows along the path are dominant in the design.
Upcoming Exhibits, Workshops, and Book Signings
Exhibits:
"Because of Memory," a solo exhibit at Mason-Scharfestein Museum of Art, Demorest, Georgia. August 31-September 28, 2023.
American Tapestry Biennial 14, juried exhibit, Appalachian Center for Crafts, May 12-July 20, 2023.
Online exhibit at TEx@ATA, curated by Pat Williams.
Workshops:
Arrowmont School of Crafts, October 1-7, 2023
John C. Campbell Folk School, Octiber 15-21, 2023
Time Marches On
Ongoing tapestry diary progress. This shows Jan., Feb., and March images and the day-by-day parts. Black and white are shown for days away from home.
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- off to KMA today
- kudzu and more kudzu...
- slowly I turned... step by step... inch by inch...
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- kudzu grows slowly...
- Happy Valentine's Day to Everyone!
- kudzu... need to roll around the beam shortly
- kudzu and other distractions...
- not as much kudzu growth as I'd hoped today--but...
- kudzu--more of filling in the blanks...
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...(I) have come to the conculsion that tapestry can indeed be an art form in its own right with its own specific mode of expression if the craft of weaving is allowed to influence the art of tapestry. In order to be meaningful, tapestry must find its own identity. It must not be a woven painting, but rather a composition that could only have been woven, not painted.
Silvia Heyden, from The Making of Modern Tapestry
I am so impressed with your persistence! Jealous, too, I must confess. I must ignore puppys and falling ceilings and get to the studio!!! I can't believe you're already at the half-way point on this piece. You have inspired me.
ReplyDeleteThanks Kathy,
ReplyDeleteI sympathize with your ceiling problems!! We've had lots of water challenges here in our old house as I think you know. Not fun. AND we didn't have a teenage puppy to contend with, along with everything else!
The piece you're working on of the duck will be just wonderful so run away from the reality to the studio and swim away with that duck!!
Tommye,
ReplyDeleteI am really enjoying watching the progression in this piece & it is bringing back memories of the 23 years I lived in the South seeing kudzu everywhere. As you said, it just insidiously drapes, twines, & snakes it way over every stationery object in its path... trees, bushes, even old houses!
I especially enjoyed your thoughts about sketching from photos to develop your design ideas instead of weaving from a cartoon traced directly from a photo. That is the method I have been using until starting to study with Silvia; my saguaro oscuro tapestry is the result of sketching & observing first before weaving. I had always thought that since I "know" how to draw I could skip that step, but my eyes have been opened & my opinion changed. Your work is the perfect example of the important need to explore during the design process before charging ahead to the creating process!
Lyn
Yes, Lyn... I've found that what I represent through my observation (whether from photo I've taken or real life object/place) by drawing or painting has a different feel when I go to the next step of interpretation into tapestry. Drawing as discovery of not only appearance but ideas as well. For me, the time spent looking, analyzing, rendering all add depth to how I understand whatever it is I want to weave about. The forms of the thing(s) becomes reduced and simplified, abstracted into an essence that I can focus on when I weave.
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