Helen Rogers
Athens, Georgia
For years Helen joked about being a “closet” textile artist, while she was in school studying drawing and painting. Instead of using paint for her “color wheel” project she experimented with natural dyes until she got all the colors (blue was hardest). She became obsessed with beadwork (at the same time she was painting portraits as a graduate student in painting) and used fiber techniques with beads—bead embroidery, loom weaving, off-loom beading in various stitches, needlepoint, crochet. Her purses and sculpture have appeared in Ornament magazine and The New Beadwork, the first collection of contemporary bead artists in book form.
Cats have always been a subject in her work—an oil portrait of a cat lady friend with her 11 cats; a beaded cat mummy sculpture; a 5-year photography project documenting the life of one cat.
With needlefelting (& NF cats, in particular) Helen feels she has finally found her niche. It employs the fibers she loves , and satisfies her love for working in miniature, for portraiture, and (of course) her favorite subject matter. She enjoys mixing fibers to arrive at the colors she uses, and likes the nuance of laying a sheer layer of one color over a base color that shows through.
Her work (and her 6 cats!) can be seen on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/catkisses123/
On the Web at http://www.flickr.com/photos/catkisses123/
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