In the Gallery: Tulips and Other Living Things by Susan Rock

Artist statement: 

"My artwork represents who I am at the moment. 

I work in fiber and watercolor and seem to be always thinking about how and what I am seeing, hearing, its color, shape or texture can be part of my art. Someone once said my brain must be like the tangled threads I sometimes use to express the stirrings within. 

For example, when I look at a flower or a landscape or a building, and something catches my eye I feel a sense of excitement and want to translate it using fiber or paint.  It invigorates me. 

When painting the most important element for me is how the color speaks.  It is ever fascinating to see how a loaded watercolor brush will react over icicle white paper, and then how another color merges and both speak poetry while I watch. 

Fiber often tells a human story, recently I have been recreating women, some of the women are in my life and others in my imagination.  Although I often use hand stitching, I find my sewing machine to be my best friend.  Pedal to the metal, stitching integrates fibers helping them to tell the whole story."