La Conner Art Walk, Dec 2012

Piece I purchased by artist Gwen Lowery

Last Friday, a new favorite of mine, fiber artist Gwen Lowery, had a special showing of her work at Gail Harker Center for Creative Arts in La Conner, WA.  I became aware of Gwen's work lately, when I purchased a piece she had made from an auction to support the new gallery being built at Gail's center.  To find out more about this auction see my post "52 Weeks of Art- a Personal Challenge."

Gwen's work is incredible dense machine stitching. She was in one of the first diploma classes given by Gail here in the United States, and holds a City & Guilds Diploma in Design and Embroidery from the Gail Harker Center for Creative Arts.  Her pieces she has been working on currently are quite large.  One of the pieces she shared with us was approximately 12 x 15 feet ( 4 x 5 meters).  Gwen's work is being shown internationally.  Unfortunately, since the pieces she shared with us are committed to shows, so I can't share photos of them.  However, you can see some of her work on Gwen's website and also on a page as an award winner from the Artist Trust Edge program for 2011.  Gwen was also a guest writer on Gail Harker's blog with her post "Going Big".  I look forward to keeping an eye on her progress as an artist and as an inspiration to my work, personally!