Linda Colsh

Linda Colsh

Archive

I make decisions about processes that work to achieve the statements I want to make and how I wish to comment on what I see. This gallery collects some older works that I consider highlights of my career and presents what I believe is an overview of my most significant fiber art works.

The elderly woman with cane in an icy dark winter landscape with bare trees; dye, screenprint, discharge

Cold Shoulder
2006
H70 x W60 inches

Screenprinted detail of old woman with cane on dyed background machine quilted

My first studio art quilt with old person printed on fabric with screens made from my street photographyFinding Her Way
2006
H52 x W74 inches

Screenprinted old woman with cane on dyed, printed, painted fabrics
Brittle Silence
2005
H38 x W33 inches

Old woman screenprinted across winter imagery printed, discharged and dyed fabrics

In Winter Woods
2005
H68 x W48 inches

 

multiple screenprints of old woman with drip bleach discharge under screenprinted trees and nebel

screenprinted woman in several poses with surface design, painted & dyed fabrics
Tall Weeds, Shallow Water
2011
H47 x W67 inches

Deconstructed screenprinting with screenprinted woman setting cane aside & unlocking big doorClose
2010
58 x 58 inches

Woman sweeping screenprinted; deconstructed screenprint & dye with acrylic paint & machine quiltingSaison 5
2011
40 x 40 inches

old man in cap with cane saunters with figs digital print,screenprint, paint, dyeThe Fig Thief's Tale
2007
40 x 40 inches

The shopper with pull cart trolley shops for fish; art quilt with screenprinting, dye, monoprint & digital printing

A Matter of Scale
2009
H40 x W 30 inches

The sweeper clears away junk & treasures for sale at the second hand flea market; screenprint, dye, monoprint

Second Hand
2009
H40 x W30 inches

Old woman walking with cane screenprinted on deconstruced screenprinting dyed background

The Crack in the Teacup
2006
H98 x W56 inches

 

detail of old woman with cane walking with dyed, painted, monoprint & deconstructed screenprinting

Big stroke ink painted background with walking woman with cane & bagDeny & Ignore
2012
72 x 72 inches

Row of indistinct anonymous figures with black, drip-discharge background

Rendered Anonymous
2005
H64 x W31 inches

Anonymous figures screenprinted across monoprint plus drip discharge black with sharp red appliqué created during time of renditions

row of screenprinted anonym figures on monoprint dye background fabric

Machine pieced, machine quilted art quilt with screenprinted sweeper woman, old apple tree, broom & icon imageThe Sweeper
2009
40 x 40 inches

Screenprinted woman with cane on enso ink painted backgroundPast Is Present
2012
40 x 40 inches

Dye, digital & screen printing of woman in hat, eggs, feathers, birdsAmazing Grace
2008
40 x 40 inches

Screenprinted watching man in hat with deconstructed screenprinting & dyeThe Sentinel
2008
40 x 40 inches

Three panel with imagery of Venice including lion of St. Mark, map and Petrarch’s Laura; surface design mixed media Venise triptych
2008
triptych H20 x W26 inches (individual panel H20 x W8 inches)

Chinese man character withJapanese daruma imagery of dyed fabric piece and inset with reverse appliquéBlue Daruma
2000
H29 x W45 inches

Dyed & clamp-resist discharged fabrics representing events of 9/11Rage & Outrage 1
2001
H45 x W48 inches

Machine pieced art quilt with imagery of Chines man character & upraised hands with log cabin square on pointJubilation & Dread
1996
H88 x W54 inches

Two-sided reversable art quilt ofBig Sur foggy morning & sunny afternoon; log-cabin pieced of overdyed & discharged fabricsNepenthe
(front & back -- two sided)
1988
H29 x W29 inches