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Barns Have Stories Catalog
Best known for her work with traditional rug hooking, Susan Feller has been expanding her artistic practice by using digital tools to “paint” and experiment with ideas. She ordered custom-printed fabric featuring her designs for use in this collection’s fiber works adding quilting along with rug hooking, painting, and construction to the mix.
Kristen Colebank's contribution is a set of representational watercolor landscapes featuring barns from the valleys of the Lost River and Cacapon rivers in Hardy and Hampshire counties. Kristen also drew inspiration from Susan’s visual cues of exposed barn timbers to paint a series of abstracted watercolors that focus on barns’ structural elements, revealed by strong value contrasts as light would shine on and sometimes through the buildings.
The collection, featuring barns in agrarian landscapes and studying how barns are put together, reveals their strength as well as their fragility, and reminds us of their historical importance in rural life.
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