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Featured Artist - July 2010
Salley Mavor
Falmouth, Massachusetts
USA
www.weefolkstudio.com
info@weefolkstudio.com
I have had a life-long fascination with little things and needlework. Toward the end of art school, I rediscovered my childhood delight in sewing and creating miniature scenes. Manipulating materials in my hands with a needle and thread was so much more satisfying than rendering with pencil or brush. I found that I could communicate my ideas more clearly and that my hands would direct me in a compelling way.
My early pieces were soft sculpture, and then turned flatter, with raised figures and objects on a fabric background. I coined the term "fabric relief" in 1982 to better describe my evolving techniques. My 3-dementional pictures resemble miniature, shallow stage sets, with scenery, props and characters telling a story. I embroider, wrap, appliqué and paint different materials and found objects to create scenes in relief, with figures imposed on an embellished fabric background. My work is decorative and detailed, full of patterns from nature, all sewn by hand. A common theme in my work has been domestic life, with a focus on women and children.
For the past 20 years, I've been working in the field of illustration, making artwork that is then photographed and printed in children's books. The original fabric relief pictures are mounted on stretched fabric and framed under glass in a shadow box, ready to show and sell as individual pieces.
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Back Cover Illustration, Pocket Full of Posies
10" x 10" ©2010
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Illustration from Pocket Full of Posies, Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
20" x 10" x 1" © 2010
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Pink House
11" x 10" © 1995
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