one, two, three ...

Three finished, six more to go ...

These works are for

Fine Art at the Magnolia 

August 24 & 25, 2019

in Lakeland, Florida

inside the beautiful

Magnolia Building 

at Hollis Gardens

on Lake Mirror 

"Center"
Mixed Media Fiber
[sold]

"Focus"
Mixed Media Fiber

"Sea"
Mixed Media Fiber

If you are interested in purchasing
any available originals ...
contact Moi for details at
akimberlydesign@gmail.com
[ make subject FAM ]

photo finish....

Many of you know I wear several hats ...

so to speak.

I started my journey as an illustrator.

Then I rediscovered fiber ... 

it had always been a presence 

in my life.  I don't think any 

of the women in my family

didn't do some kind of hand work ... always.

Even the men were enlisted to 

needlepoint backgrounds

 when a set of six chair seat 

cushions was desired

by the matriarch, aka. Gramma.

So, I was taught to basketweave 

at a very young age, 

but

sitting still for that long was 

not my forte.

At age ten my teacher announced 

to my entire class,

'your mother can draw, so I'm sure you can too'.

The assignment was to draw 

clouds for a science project.

Hardest thing in the world to make look real, 

in my humble opinion.

My journey will always be around my talents.

AND I love that!

I love to draw, I could sit and draw for hours.

Of course, life interrupts.

My drawings are presently centered around

ideas for a new body of work.

Each piece is to be 5" square,

each very abstract,

each as colorful as I want,

each loaded with treasures,

and

rebellious stitching!

'Center'
the first abstract in this series.
Original Freeform 
mixed media fiber art.
This will be floated into a shadow box 
and available in August at the
Fine Art at the Magnolia
artisan show.

Original Sketch
[prints available]
contact me via
akimberlydesign@gmail.com

Oh how I love bullions,
floating on these are chipped
real metal thread.

 

Couched Japan Gold that
catches the light beautifully.

Beginnings of the bead pile.
That's about four layers of
wool felt appliqued to the center.

So much fun ...

I have drawers full of treasure.
No idea where these wonderful green beads
came from originally but they're perfect.

When you finish a piece around
midnight and
start playing with
your phone camera.
Love this shot.

.... and this one.

Ready for flight ...

The process ...

many ask, 

"So what is it that you do, Kimberly?"

Original drawing of "Trio"©
21"square, marker rendering.
This was the beginning of my feature piece
for next weekends fine art show.
[info below]

Biggest piece of canvas this one has
ever painted.  I had to borrow an easel!
Which if you'd seen me trying to put this
together, you'd still be laughing.  

Finished hand painted canvas of
"Trio"©
From here, it was mounted to stretcher bars to 
allow me to go crazy with cotton and silk fibers,
silk wrapped gimp [love this stuff] from
Tentakulum Painters Threads


amazing Silk Ribbon from
River Silk,

 metallics, silk, and fine copper mesh from
  Kreinik Mfg.

Doug Kreinik found this awesome 
copper mesh for me after much 
fruitless searching on my part.
My dragonflies would be flat winged 
without his generous assistance.

Rendered in thread, one of a kind,
fiber art, mixed media canvas by
a Kimberly design©

As I rendered this piece .... my hands just seem to know what
to do, what a magical journey this piece has been for me.
The outlined flowers in the background, the hatchmarked
sparkle ... stems, leaves, many moons .... and oh!
Those WINGS!!!

The 'viney' things ...
that's the silk wrapped gimp.

Meet Betsy Bohrer!
She is the creator and curator of two different
art venues here in mid Florida.
Both of which she graciously asked this one
to be a part of.  She is helping me introduce
the world, one small step at a time, to my
world of needleart. 
I met Betsy about two years ago during a one
woman show of her beautiful works of art.
The friendship took off from there. She introduces
us as Mischief and Mayhem. You'll have
to guess at who is what ;-)
[although, I think we trade back and forth]

If you're in the area of Central Florida ...
Please join us next weekend for
Fine Art at the Magnolia
We are a collection of seventeen Fine Artists 
from all walks.
Ranging from pottery to paint to
sculptural basketry to
digital to photograpy
to sculpture
to jewelry to glass.
Something for everyone.
... and all in air conditioned comfort by 
beautiful Lake Mirror in the historical
Magnolia Building.

My proud Mom!
Love this picture of her!

Just a tad busy....

Tonight is a sweet “4 Squared Makers”

Opening reception at one of our awesome

local coffee houses. 

Hillcrest Coffee

I think we have 40 artists 

showing for the next month. 

So come check it out if you’re in the area. 

Tonight there will be art, music 

and of course,

☕️ 

These are my four,

Dragonfly and Echinacea 

have already sold 😊

I’m diligently working on my feature piece for
Fine Art at the Magnolia
August 18 & 19
THIS MONTH
Where did June & July go!?!

I hope you can join us for this wonderful event. 

We’re seventeen artists, all with our own

different and unique talents ...

... and, we’re in the beautiful historic

Magnolia building 

overlooking Lake Mirror 

in air conditioned 

comfort 😎

Yay!!