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Bitterroot Art Beat: Barbara Warden

Quilted textile artist € ™ s work shows connections tight to the various cultural influences, shaking the power of imagination

By Brian Dâ € ™ Ambrosio

As an artist, Barbara Warden easily expresses the vivacity of his thoughts and opinions. Fluent and joy and visible participation in almost any subject related to art and her own artistic pursuits.

Although their participation within the art world cuts across many different media, currently Warden restoration work in the field quilted textile art.

Wardenâ € ™ s textile (or fiber) art encompasses all human attributes imaginable: from memory to the language of abstract ideas of beauty, harmony, freedom and individuality. Widely varying in size and color, their creations mixed great asset to the force of imagination, both provoke passion, appreciation, and the mysterious obsession.

In studying some of his more abstract pieces, sensations and pleasant way to live themselves amidst constant, it is necessary, invisible movements in the brain. This metaphorically rich, image-based neural influences of his intrepid firmness and deep concepts, while providing valuable clues to a lost universe embedded emotional abstraction.

The great Thomas Jefferson wrote in his memoirs that â € œThe art of life is the art of avoiding pain; Wardenâ € â € ™ s abstract textile art is best expressed and most human when the artist recognizes the source of systemic contradiction and common concerns.

â € OEI used to be a painter, â € says Warden. â € œAbstract art has always interested me, and itâ € ™ s where my interests are. Iâ € ™ m madly in love with Rembrandt, like all the world is. Painting for me to express my love of color. Quilting and working with fabric is a way of working again with Color. €

Warden enjoys the combination of various colors, textures and shapes randomly, using improvisation as a technique to learn more about creating vivid images that motion suggested and energy.

Moreover, Warden holds dear a special bond with color, particularly red. Extreme and emotional, and similar to the color of blood, red indicates a range of symbols ranging from the radical left politics a sad state of financial indebtedness.

â € œColor is powerful and is an important way of expressing emotion. The color red is fire, heat, danger, and in its most basic form, the color of blood. Two years ago I read a book entitled "The root of madder red. Blonde Red is a plant used as a dye for rugs of Asia. At that point I decided to highlight in red as the color dominant in my quilts.

OEI â € donâ € ™ t think of color as a neutral. I read something recently about the Net to be a neutral color. But, thereâ € ™ s nothing neutral about red. Red represents passion. Red is one of those colors sure to respond to more than € others.â

Wardenâ € ™ s artwork is impressive, but is, however, the tone of conversation that should be highlighted: kind, forgiving, without affectation, comprehensive, captivating and without deliberately trying to be.

In addition, his art captures the essence of a strong connection with various cultural influences, ie native Americans and Asians.

IAEA € â € ™ ve always loved Native American art and natural dyes used in carpet manufacturing, â € says Warden.

â € œRight IA € ™ m now focused on the Navajo and Hopi, and the fabulous colors and blue skies red sandstone in Arizona and New Mexico. Good Chinese and Japanese crafts embroidery has an attention to detail thata € ™ s so beautiful. Nothing is too small or insignificant to make it a piece of Asia artwork.â €

Warden discovered, unfortunately only recently, extending the opportunity quilting calibrate their sense of satisfaction as happiness, effort, and self-average.

â € œTextile work is interesting because it can be functional or nonfunctional. Iâ € ™ m very interested in the feel of the upholstery and fabrics. Thereâ € ™ s great satisfaction that comes with padding. To me, art is always a learning experience.â €

The boredom, liveliness, mundaneness, and joy, are characteristic of an artist ™ € s emotional ebb and flow. Recognizing these difficulties moving and fickle is one thing, putting the erratic attitude and inaction in action is another.

â € day œSome the last thing I want to do is sit and get to work. Matisse was considered a blue collar workers. He went to work to paint all days â € "it was his job. IA € ™ m always remind myself not to give a € mood.â

For Warden, carpet padding, similar to other art forms, provides, if not escape, but the interlude from reality, the scope of a world full of repetitive gestures and overcrowding Anxiety places.

â € œQuilting is lonely for me. But for many people itâ € ™ sa social experience. There quilting guilds, and some people thrive on the social aspects of quilting as they work ™ € re. Iâ € ™ m much more of a private person.id €

After all these years in the fine arts, Warden has learned to be able to ignore the criticism, and has fostered the necessary confidence in the decades to look disapproval of the eye â € "and even a nod to her, shea € ™ s at one point in his life when he believes in what he does, and nothing will prevent her to do:

OEI mind â € donâ € ™ t get there in a more vulnerable. With quilting, I know that IA € ™ m in the right place at the moment. Itâ € ™ s exciting. Each piece is different. Every day is € different.â

Barbara Wardenâ € ™ s textile art will be on display during the months of September and October in the Frame Shop and Gallery, 325 Main Street, Hamilton, MT. Phone: 363-6684.

For more information, visit www.firetalkquilts.com.

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