Printed reproductions are available as 18″ x 24″ posters or note cards in my Etsy shop.
About the artwork: Birds of Beebe Woods was made for a fiber art exhibit celebrating the town forest in my home town of Falmouth, Massachusetts in 2012. In my piece, I wanted to feature wildlife as well as convey the natural environment of the woods. I chose to portray birds, making them realistic enough to be recognized, but patterned and abstracted in a way that made them fun to stitch. When planning the birds piece, I started with a simple sketch and then got to work on the woodsy border, with its felt-covered wire filigree stage curtains. The crow came next and then the other birds common to our area of New England, making a dozen total. Listed clock-wise, they are female cardinal, nuthatch, black-throated green warbler, male cardinal, wren, downy woodpecker, blue-jay, robin, goldfinch, cedar waxwing, American crow and chickadee.
Many people have asked if the original is for sale. No, it isn’t, as I will be holding onto it, so that it can be displayed in public exhibitions. The next best thing (and affordable, too) is to get the poster in my Etsy shop.
I will bring the piece to my lecture at Quilters’ Connection
Date: Thursday, October 24, 2019
Location: St. James Armenian Church, 465 Mount Auburn Street, Watertown, MA 02472
Time: Doors open at 6:00 PM, meeting starts at 7:00 PM. There is a $10.00 guest fee for non Quilters’ Connection members.
Detail images from Birds of Beebe Woods are printed as note cards, too. They’re available in my Etsy shop.
Before I sewed everything onto the background, my husband, Rob took a photo of the felt covered wire border suspended in front of the woods around our house. Then my sister, Anne used her graphic design skills to disappear the fishing line and make an announcement for the 2012 Intimate Woods exhibit at Highfield Hall in Falmouth.
Archives: To see posts about the making of the birds in the piece, go to these links: crow here, goldfinch, nuthatch and chickadee here, blue jay here, cedar waxwing here, cardinals here, robin here, wren here.
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