This ancient Mycenean’s attempt to immortalize himself with his golden death mask is foiled: his identity has been lost and now his shining face sits in an Athens museum, beaming, but anonymous.
An American residing in Everberg, Belgium, Linda Colsh draws on her wide-ranging experiences to create her art works. She has lived, exhibited and taught in America, Asia and Europe. A lifelong artist with two degrees in Art History, she worked as a technical writer before taking up quiltmaking in 1981. Her art has evolved from traditional to contemporary, always reflecting her unique personal style. To create her own fabrics, she works with surface design media, such as dye, discharge, direct painting and printing, including screenprinting, stamps and monoprinting.
Making art is something I do for the challenge of design and the joy of working with dye, paint, and cloth. Life has given me a wide-ranging imagination and my peripatetic life has put me in places of immense andwonderful inspiration. My Art History background gives me not only appreciation for art and culture, but also the ability to look, to analyze, and to assimilate all kinds of visual imagery. My "how I spend my work day" pie chart is evolving: the stitching wedge is slimming down as the surface design piece of pie gets bigger. While studio time is seductive and vital, time away from the needle, brush and dyepot--time to think--is also an important part of my creative process.
Selected exhibitions: Quilt National, Visions, European Quilt Triennial,
“Exposed” at the Noho Gallery, NY City
