It's Women's History Month and the National Museum of Women in the Arts is doing a #5femaleartists thing on social media. So, this is me joining in while I am in the final week of assembling work and finishing the papers for Norwescon.
I'm going to post about one artist a day from a list of 5 fiber artists who had a big influence on me. Today's female fiber artist is Deidre Scherer whose name I can never spell right the first time.
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It's not even that her work inspired me altho her use of thread to create line and shadow on fabric opened up possibilities for me. I was at my in-laws house for Thanksgiving and Dr. Doug was talking about a trip to the east coast and a museum. He started describing these amazing detailed stitched portraits but couldn't remember the artists' name. I looked at him and said "Deidre Scherer". And he was amazed I knew of her. This was in the late 90's when I was just starting to exhibit so it really made me feel like I was truly an artist. Because even if I wasn't producing lots or exhibiting lots, I knew my field and the fellow artists.
She's added paper and lino prints to her work since then and you can see all of her work at her webpage, dscherer.com. The work displayed is still focused on elder portraits regardless of the technique and I find both her woven paper pieces and lino-cuts intriguing. Looking at the variations she has done gives me some ideas about ways to vary my dancer pieces while I experiment this year.
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