Mixed Media Fiber arts
Sharon Sinclair Fiber Artist
I am a fiber artist who works in mixed media. I do custom wall hangings for corporations and for Stage.
I began working with fabric at an early age and enjoy creating designs based on themes for the client.
Nature has always been an important theme in my life.
I love doing labor intensive art work --- it is an odyssey. After working several months on a quilt, if I don’t think it is working then I must not cast it aside but “fix it”. I often do this by building up and adding more embellishments and paint rather than taking it apart. I do have patience and a vision --- which keep me going.
People often ask me where I get my ideas. For me, that is the easiest part. As most artists do, I love to observe people, nature, and the universe in general, and ponder. This can be a blessing and a curse, but I try to accept it as a blessing.
Checkout the different quilts. Tall Flowers For Kate, Sacred Geometry, Sea Turtles, Amy Grant Stage Design, Stevie Nicks Stage Design.
I began working with fabric at an early age and enjoy creating designs based on themes for the client.
Nature has always been an important theme in my life.
I love doing labor intensive art work --- it is an odyssey. After working several months on a quilt, if I don’t think it is working then I must not cast it aside but “fix it”. I often do this by building up and adding more embellishments and paint rather than taking it apart. I do have patience and a vision --- which keep me going.
People often ask me where I get my ideas. For me, that is the easiest part. As most artists do, I love to observe people, nature, and the universe in general, and ponder. This can be a blessing and a curse, but I try to accept it as a blessing.
Checkout the different quilts. Tall Flowers For Kate, Sacred Geometry, Sea Turtles, Amy Grant Stage Design, Stevie Nicks Stage Design.
Newest Works in Progress
TREX
This is an art piece I created for Violet - She loves Dinosours
It is a mixed media, some fabric, some paint.
This is an art piece I created for Violet - She loves Dinosours
It is a mixed media, some fabric, some paint.
WOLF MOON for Bobby
Mixed Media, watercolors, fabric
Mixed Media, watercolors, fabric
Green Tara Thangka
Well as most of you know I have been a practitioner of Buddhism for more than 20 years. I decided I would create my own Thangka of the Deity Green Tara. She has been a guiding light in my life, especially in doing spiritual house clearings and helping me to work with spirits. It has taken many months but she is finally complete. I was fortunate enough to have her go on a six week sutra tour throughout Oregon with Lama Karma Rinpoche and the Drukpa Mila Center in Salem.
Well as most of you know I have been a practitioner of Buddhism for more than 20 years. I decided I would create my own Thangka of the Deity Green Tara. She has been a guiding light in my life, especially in doing spiritual house clearings and helping me to work with spirits. It has taken many months but she is finally complete. I was fortunate enough to have her go on a six week sutra tour throughout Oregon with Lama Karma Rinpoche and the Drukpa Mila Center in Salem.
NEW QUILTS - I am in the process of creating my second quilt in a series of 3 called "Before The Spill"
This next quilt is all about Dolphins stay tuned for pictures in soon.
HERE IT IS! The second finished piece
This next quilt is all about Dolphins stay tuned for pictures in soon.
HERE IT IS! The second finished piece
"BEFORE THE SPILL 1" Sea Turtle Quilt
The theme of this series of quilts began with the news of the gulf oil spill. As I sat listening and watching it made me drift back to a time when the world was more beautiful and safe of all the noise, pollution and craziness we all now face. I was born in Savannah Georgia and spent many hours at the ocean as a child. The water has always been sacred to me and over the years I have watched and wondered about the destruction of our seas, not only from physical pollution but from noise as well. The ocean was once a quiet place but now many of these beautiful creatures loose there way because they cannot hear each other. BEFORE THE SPILL are a series of 3 quilts that depict the sea and it's creatures the way I remember them from childhood, bright, colorful, peaceful and full of wonder. I decided to try something new with this quilt and work with felt. I created the image in photoshop and then took that to Kinko's and had it printed the actual size of the quilt. I began by making all of the sea vegetation first. I created the big red anemone out of individual pieces that I then hand sewed together. I did this with each of the pieces. Then they were hand painted with magic markers and acrylic fabric paint. I then hand sewed them onto the background of the quilt. Then I created the individual turtles by cutting the basic outline out of felt, then I sewed the background fabric behind the felt grid and cut the small pieces and sewed them onto the head, arms and legs.
These were then hand sewed onto the background and I basted the whole piece together with cotton baton and background fabric.
I hand never used a machine to quilt, all my other quilts were done by hand, on the encouragement of my husband Larry I took out my old 1591 straight stitch Singer from 1952, read the directions on free motion quilting and quilted the whole thing. I have to say it was some what nerve racking but, it came out fantastic.
Then the quilt was bound, beading and glitter were added to finish it off.
These were then hand sewed onto the background and I basted the whole piece together with cotton baton and background fabric.
I hand never used a machine to quilt, all my other quilts were done by hand, on the encouragement of my husband Larry I took out my old 1591 straight stitch Singer from 1952, read the directions on free motion quilting and quilted the whole thing. I have to say it was some what nerve racking but, it came out fantastic.
Then the quilt was bound, beading and glitter were added to finish it off.
