Pottery Barn has licensed the digital copy of my mixed media painting in my Loss series, "Brightness, Boundaries and Time" and is selling it as a print with the title of Red Textile Framed Print. It’s framed and comes in three sizes, 18”, 24” and 36” square. I have a relationship with an art licensing company that initiated it. Thank you to them, and also to Pottery Barn!
Yesterday I sent nine new fabric paintings and one that's a few years old, to the company that licenses my work so they can photograph them to add to my portfolio for a total of 62 images that are available. I am very excited because the nine new paintings are from my Loss series, which I started in early 2021, a little while after my mother died.
This new work is a combination of repurposed embroideries from my mother's house or eBay or that have been gifted to me. The stories behind the work are very personal. I did not make them to exhibit necessarily or to be licensed, but I am very glad others are interested in them.
I created the original in 2011 when I was at a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. It measures 113” x 49" monoprint on a white cotton sheeting fabric. The image at Pottery Barn without the frame is 43" x 19".
I am so glad this image has had a life of its own in addition to the original which is rolled up on a tube in my studio. It's good to get my work out there, with or without my name attached to it.
Over the last few weeks, we have been updating an extra room in our house. Since we moved in in 1988, this room has been used as our son's bedroom, my husband's office, my mother-in-law's bedroom during the Covid lockdown, and now it's our guest room.
When we moved in, I painted over the wall paper because the beaver board walls from 1935 have at least three layers and it was too labor intensive and we didn't have the time to remove them.
A few weeks ago I cleaned up the walls the best I could, given the circumstances, filled in the holes and cracks, and painted the walls and ceiling the same white.
Then the redecorating and bonding project of hanging of artwork and prints happened. This included the hanging of the licensed print of Seasonal Fence Print that Crate & Barrel sold as a framed giclee print that measures 30"W x 0.75"D x 60"H. Until now, we didn't have wall space to hang it.
In 2013, Crate & Barrel licensed the image of my painting Seasonal Fences - Spring #3, which is one piece I created in a series of 20 and named it Seasonal Fence Print. I bought the print on sale as a remainder when they discontinued selling it quite a few years ago.
As a painting, the actual Seasonal Fences - Spring #3 is mixed media on board, and it measures 22" x 10" x 1".
Stragically below the print is a sliver of wall paper that I did not paint over. It's an archive of the changes the room had with previous owners. Hopefully when we move someday, the new owners will appreciate it.
