Category: WTP spotlight: art

Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe here. Glamour Shot See Susan Dory’s work in WTP Vol. VII #7 acrylic on canvas, rope 18” x 8” x 4” Re-envisioning her paintings as raw material, Susan Dory deconstructs and reassembles her canvases.…

Forest See Jo Stealey’s work in WTP Vol. VII #6 Currently “Forest” is comprised of more than fifty trees and tree parts and more than 750 cast paper rocks. It includes handmade paper, river willow, and pigment.This site-specific installation has been shown at a variety of venues. At each venue some elements are removed, others…

Composition 65 See Patrick Hughes’s work in WTP Vol. VII #6 watercolor on Arches 8” x 6 1/2” Patrick Hughes creates small-scale watercolor paintings that are both subtle and complex. Though abstract, Hughes’s work invokes narrative, revealing the familiar in his meticulous abstract compositions. His control and mastery of his medium is clearly visible in…

Fallen Soldier Sheltering Juvenile Planet See Chehalis Hegner’s work in WTP Vol. VII #6 editioned print, available in various sizes archival inkjet print on museum grade cotton rag paper “Twenty years ago, I lost the use of my left eye due to an infection. Doctors said I might lose sight in my right eye, too.…

Seafaring See Audra Weaser’s work in WTP Vol. VII #6 acrylic, metallic paint, mixed media on panel 60” x 40” For the past decade, Weaser’s work has focused on nature. She’s interested in creating physically charged images reminiscent of watery landscapes. These abstracted scenes are formed from rhythmic manipulations of pigmented materials. Her process includes…

Exploring Light See Bentley Meeker’s work in WTP Vol. VII #5 resin, birch, canvas, 3200K LED, and 5600 LED 40” x 40” x 8” These meticulously constructed sculptures comment on the intersection of human culture and the natural world. Meeker’s works scrape down our experience of artificial light to its rawest components. Using contrasting light…

Depression See Jean Poythress Koon’s work in WTP Vol. VII #5 pine needles, copper foil, straight pins, watch band, watche, hasp, faucet handle 8” x 4” “I live at the edge of a salt marsh and this fragile environment has become my muse. It provides salt marsh hay for coiling, and shells for bases, but…

sbc 197 See Susan Cantrick’s work in WTP Vol. VII #4 mixed media collage on paper 11” x 15” “Like its mute cousin music, painting has the capacity to project great clarity without words—a clarity distinct from certitude. In search of the intelligibility that is possible within painting’s sub-linguistic space, I’ve experimented freely with diverse…

Crystallization See Mauricio Paz Viola’s work in WTP Vol. VII #3 oil on canvas 16’’ x 23” “My works feature images of imaginary landscapes, empty or inhabited by unknown beings; landscapes that externalize the constant inner struggle of being human, that visualize conflict between good and evil, between light and darkness… hence, landscapes inhabited by…

Shell Machine See Walter Crump’s work in WTP Vol. VII #3 inkjet pigment print on Hahnemuhle, Glossy Fine Art Baryta 325 gsm 31” x 22” “I explore alternative ways in which cameras see the world. Trained as a painter and printmaker, I gradually mastered the art of photography when, in 1986, I was asked to…

Looking for Eva 1 See Patricia Lagarde’s work in WTP Vol. VII #2 platinum/palladium 6 1/2” x 4” “My work has to do with the object as symbol. I am interested in the relationships established between things and the subject that sees, describes, analyzes and names them. Representation as language, as metaphor. The theme of…