Hometown Collective in the Bryn Mawr Trust Window Gallery
The Hometown Collective is a group of artists who have been working together for 15 years. Their major show and sale is at Providence Monthly Meeting on December 4th.
Seeking to illustrate her own artist book, Sara Forster discovered that cutting and pasting colored paper pieces gave her the materials to create collage images that were splashy and spontaneous.
Lesley Nelson’s art quilt designs incorporate strong structure and luscious color choices obviously influenced from her exposure to high fashion fabrics and furniture by her architect-father.
Nature is a profound source of inspiration for Sandra Webberking and her metal sculpture. The woods have been a treasure trove for her imaginative whimsical creatures that she re-incarnates from waste metal found in Amish farm equipment yards.
Book artist, Sarah Bourne, writes, illustrates and creates charming story books, and crafts beautiful hand-bound journals. Using her inspired imagination she has re-introduced the “flip book” with genuine humor.
Award-winning Dorothy Flanagan’s paintings are inspired by color and light grounded in reality. She works in watercolor and collage, influenced by her journeys to Italy, Kenya, Greece and the American southwest.
Heidi Hammel uses her creative imagination to produce one-of-a-kind wearable fiber from reclaimed wool, silk, cotton and polar-fleece. Along with warm and comfortable mittens, hats and handbags, come see her new “tie bags”.
Inspired by the color in nature, basket maker Bette McCarron hand dyes reed to produce her own color palette and paints with the dyes to create unusual color blends on the same reed. With the many variables of reed size, color, pattern design and shape, every basket is a unique creation.
Lorri Primavera’s jewelry designs combine precious and semi-precious stones with sterling silver. Continually adding new creations, she believes in “less is more” and her juxtaposition of color and forms give her work a quirky beauty and diversity.
Chris Starry uses her hand-dyed yarns of tencel, silk, and bamboo and recently learned techniques has woven exciting, elegant scarves and shawls. She also creates Temari balls, an ancient Japanese craft with designs woven and stitched onto a ball.
Doug Starry uses traditional Shaker’s technique of no glue and using only four nails for rocking chairs. The combination of the woods he harvests from his own property and his high level of craftsmanship transforms each piece into a cherished functional object of furniture.
Elaine White has been making classically shaped wheel-thrown pottery for over 20 years. Textured and recessed designs invite and encourage the viewer to reach out and touch these beautiful and useful items.
Exciting! Creative! Fun! The Hometown Collective’s 15th Annual Show will be on Saturday, December 4 from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm at the historic Providence Friends Meetinghouse at 105 North Providence Road, Media, PA.
