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Linda @ LindaKittmer
This week we have a fibre/mixed media artist, who journals and loves photography. Lately, she's hosting a beautiful paper napkin exchange. When you visit her blog, make sure you visit her galleries, especially the Bead Journal Project Gallery where you can see close-ups of her piece "My Year Unraveled" which is AMAZING!! It's tempting to think that her fabulous studio (see the tour) makes all her work possible but I think she'd be a very prolific artist in any case. Introducing...
My
name is Linda Kittmer and I’m from a relatively small town, Georgetown,
Ontario, which is about thirty minutes outside of Toronto.
In
the spring of 2006 a friend and I started a fibre art group, ‘The Group
of Eight Fibre Artists’ or GOE (rhymes with toe) as we refer to
ourselves. In spite of the name, the group currently has ten members who
meet monthly, encouraging and inspiring one another. Our first group
show was in January 2011 and we had many shows and speaking engagements
since then.
I
now use much of my own hand dyed fabric and I create unique pieces
using various surface design techniques such as mono-printing, marbling,
rust dyeing, etc. I have had several of my pieces of art accepted into
juried art shows, some specifically ‘fibre art’ shows and others into
general art shows which also exhibited other media.
My
name is Linda Kittmer and I’m from a relatively small town, Georgetown,
Ontario, which is about thirty minutes outside of Toronto.
I
consider myself a fibre artist foremost, but I also do mixed media
work, art journalling and photography, and these various passions
sometimes cross over into one another. Although I have always been
interested in art, and took some art classes in high school and
university, once I started working as a teacher, my art was put on the
back burner while I worked full time and raised my son.
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| 'My Year Unraveled' which is a large piece (18"x24") done entirely in heavy bead embroidery, which journals my life during 2012, with each individual piece representing a month in the year, starting with January in the centre and spiralling out to the end of the year. |
Having
grown up in Kitchener, near Mennonite communities, I saw a lot of
quilts and always admired them. Although there are no quilters in my
family, in 1999, I decided to teach myself to quilt. I began as a self
taught traditional quilter. Although I used some patterns, I quickly
discovered that I preferred creating my own unique designs. Being a
prolific quilter, I quickly ran out of beds, sofas and cribs to cover.
This was also the time when I discovered that the traditional quilt
guild was no longer meeting my creative needs.
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| 'Out of the Blue' deals with
the struggle to escape depression |
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| This is a face on a bag that won 1st place in an "ugly fabric" challenge |
I have a blog, http://lindakittmer.blogspot.ca, where I post about my artistic passions. Art is relaxing and
therapeutic and I make every effort to spend time in my studio each and
every day. For me, art is the answer...no matter what the question!
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