Prayer for Our Own

Kristine Zacharias (soon to be Simpson) is one of our newer members. She took on the brave task of joining us a week or so before her wedding to Mr. John Simpson. So in the midst of planning a wedding she is getting some collages ready for the Clothesline Art Show. She contacted me yesterday to say that among other business, she contracted a mean stomach bug that put her in the hospital! Let's go to God in prayer that Kristine will be 100% really soon and be able to return to John and the Clothesline group. We are excited to see her work join ours, whether she was able to produce everything she wanted to or not. Our Ladies of the Clothesline are above all else encouraging and supportive of our fellow artists in their joys and in their trials. We have celebrated new babies, new homes, new jobs, and future plans. We have been with each other as we said goodbye to loved ones, sending them home to Jesus. Can't wait to see what the future holds. Congrats Kristine on your upcoming marriage and we will pray with and for you that all ends will be tied up and that the Lord would heal you completely.

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Artist Statements: Part 4

Linda Thomas
There is an elegant beauty in trivial objects and bits of nature and this is reflected in my work. I love the unpredictability of intaglio printmaking and I use different techniques to achieve textures and values. My subjects are often selected because they seem forgotten or simply evoke memories. I am intrigued by the Dutch still life paintings and I've begun to paint with oil on paper to visually explore tactile and light qualities without striving for photo-realism.

Kate Treick
Painting has been a wonderful creative outlet for me since my grandmother gave me my first set of oil paints when I was eleven. My work includes detailed mixed-media pieces that explore the play of light and shadow on flower petals and abstract acrylic paintings that explore color and texture. In both types of work I am inspired by light and color and in my flower paintings I celebrate the beauty of God's creation.

Kristine Zacharias
I am constantly absorbed in the act of looking, whether at something exquisite or mundane. Art is for me a way of combining these two while connecting with the people around me. Using found images and my own photographs, my collages and paintings illustrate a reality like that of memories-a combination of recollection, stories, memorabilia and photo albums-exploring the tension between history and myth, representation and abstraction, public and personal images and their collective meanings.

Artist Statements: Part Three

Lauren Leutwiler

I have painted two icons in the traditional manner in the past two years. I am amazed by the process and meaning of painting icons. Currently my artworks blend my desire to better understand icons with my desire to make prints. The richness of the mark-making and the strong graphic imagery of a carved and printed plate are wonderful. I love that the process of making a series of final artworks from one plate allows for many people to be able to afford an original piece of art.

Suzanne Moore

Color photography has embedded itself into my daily life, as I now see the world as I do through my viewfinder. Capturing a moment on paper is one thing, being in control of color using light in the darkroom is humbly exhilerating. I intentionally get lost driving in search to bring back my bizarre findings. I look to create a dialogue between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear. Being a painter initially, I use light on paper like paint on canvas, manipulating it until satisfied with the composition.

Diane Reed

My work is a response to the sights and circumstances I find in my life or as I travel halfway fascinating frameworks halfway around the world. Recently as I have been developing sketches from the "Palio" in Sienna, Italy and those from the Massai in Kenya, I am reminded of the contrasts of how we invest our lives, our precious moments given on the same God given sun.

Artist Statements: Part two

Lauren Cox
Through my work I wish to show the beauty of the body using traditional mediums. I love how intricately we have been made and I hate how the media touches women up, putting unrealistic standards on girls today. I don't want to make a forceful statement, but I do hope that my studies of the human body shown in its natural state has some effect.

Jennifer Kring
I strive to create compositions that provide a window into a story...a story of a life lived or a dream imagined. These works beckon the viewer to envision the possibilities of our own everyday as well as fantastic worlds we lived in as children. The process of creating this kind of enviroment requires the use of a variety of mediums, so I use what best suites the subject, which are then applied to canvas with beeswax.

Katie Ward Knutson
Light is one of the fundamental elements that make images attractive in art. I have loved experimenting with portraying light and how it interacts with our memory and senses. I love seeing how the camera captures light. In my Metro series, I have found photographs that capture the light as it dominates a dark, urban space and I replicate them with paint on canvas.

I have been really enjoying celebrating the little things in creation. Birds and rabbits are easily overlooked, or never seen. Through the eyes of my little children I have rediscovered these creatures and how lovely and special they are. The shapes of these animals lend themselves to study and experimentation. I have a very special place for sharing art with everyone, and being able to create tasteful and decorative pieces of art. I hope these small pieces can bring smiles to young and old, the new art patron and the seasoned collector

Artist Statements: Part One

Sarah Nichols
Which comes first in human experience, memory or imagination? And what is their relationship to each other? My work hypothesizes that memory and imagination are inextricable. Imagination is the often unpredictable appropriation of memory that recycles our catalogue of experience into new ideas. Memory is at once both a conscious and subconscious faculty that coerces the waking perspective and biases the senses. It is by calculation, quantization, and categorization that the reasoning mind counters. This internal power struggle accounts for some of the most significant relationships in my work; nature versus technology, the mundane verses the extraordinary, the temporal versus the eternal.

Cat Collier

For the last year my focus has been on creating trees. My techniques have remained the same over the year with the exception of incorporating wood grain contact paper into my collage. I really like the cross section of the wood grain instead of painting or collaging the part of the tree. It is a contrast between real and abstract graffiti inspired line quality. Bright colors versus the brown shades of wood trees simply represents life, a forest of trees growing, rising up as a family of trees, strong and full of hope, my family tree.

Final Show Card

Now ALL the names are on it, so sorry swooz n lauren! I've been a spaz about this card! It no longer has the colors of a Kotex box and the art hanging is obvious. The backside is the same except for the deacon's chair, that's gone. I hope you all dig it, because it's on it's way! Hopefully here by Tues.... get your addresses in so we'll have names to put on these suckers!

Show Card Final??