Cindy Grisdela

Artist Statement

I'm intrigued by color and the way colors interact with one another. When I was a child, one of my favorite pastimes was taking a new box of crayons and exploring how the colors worked together. In a way, I'm continuing those explorations in fabric. I like to use fabric the way a painter might use paint to create a mood, develop a contrast, or sometimes just to see what happens.

My work has a feeling of spontaneity because I use many different fabrics in my designs, along with improvisational cutting and piecing techniques and whimsical free motion quilting. Fiber art is exciting to me because it offers a tactile quality beyond the color and line of a design. Once I've played with the colors and the fabric in the pieced top, I have another opportunity to add dimension to my work by quilting the layers together-a process I like to think of as drawing with a needle and thread. Most of my work is abstract in nature and heavily machine quilted with variegated thread to give an added sparkle.

See: www.cindygrisdela.com

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