Adrianne Joslin

Born in Detroit, Mich

Lives & works in Belmont, NC

 

I am a fiber artist.  I work within a craft-based medium, focused on exploring my ideas primarily through the use of fiber, thread and stitch.

 

My works are  “paintings”, using a textile base, sometimes acrylic  washes, free motion machine stitching and hand embroidery.  The art is created as a “sandwich” surface consisting of the top “painting”, batting, and a lining, much like a conventional quilter.  This extra layering gives my art a more three-dimensional quality, adding to the textural aspects of each piece. The free motion machine stitching uses the sewing machine needle as a pencil or paintbrush. Some art pieces are embellished with beads, seashells, driftwoods, or small stones.  Many are finished off by hand embroidery.

 

I have an overwhelming desire to touch textiles. This has been my primary attraction to the medium. Touch is the reason why I stitch.  Holding and manipulating the cloth in my hands is an important part of my creative process. I find that there is a meditative quality to the repetitive motion of mark making that allows me to get lost in the creative moment.

 

My art often emerges as I’m creating it.  I don’t start with a guaranteed final product in mind. Rather, I start to see what I might discover by combining these fabrics, those colors, that idea or word or image – and I see what results. As the work emerges, I refine it, shape it, change it…sometimes destroy it.

 

I’ve travelled extensively, photographing images as an aide-memoire for my work.  I have a vast library of photographs to draw upon time and time again.

 

My work consists of themes that strike me spontaneously, often prompted by a phrase, a landscape, a hardscape, a person, or an emotion. As such, my pieces have a broad thematic range and style.

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Member of:

Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA)

Southern Artist Society Inc. (SASI)

Gastonia Artist's Guild

Gastonia Fiber Guild

Charlotte Art League (CAL)

American Quilters Society (AQS)