Linda Colsh

Linda Colsh

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Because the anonymous people I choose to portray are like blank pages, I search for his narrative from small visual hints and physical clues to flesh out a character and fill in blanks: a special gait or posture; a walking stick, tool or bag; a wrinkled face and maybe stooped shoulders that are more than signs of age. A man might be patiently waiting for someone, watching the bustle of the street or telling a tale to a friend. These traits are the evidence of experience and a life fully lived. What seems ordinary and unremarkable to those hurrying along busy sidewalks or down the big city boulevards or alleyways, to me is deserving a second thought and maybe more.

Dante extends hand on patchwork art quilt with symbols representing the Inferno screeprint, dye, acrylic paint

Ashes, Ashes
2021
H48 x W24 inches

Made in the year of the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, Ashes, Ashes includes circle imagery to recall Dante’s journey through the circles of Hell.  Superimposed numbers refer to the levels & sins described by Dante. Traveling the circles is like walking a labyrinth that, like Dante’s Inferno, ventures deeper and deeper into Hell.

Fiber art in summer colors with seated artist drawing in sketchbook. Stained acrylic inks and paint with screenprint

A Simpler Place In Time
2020
H48 x W12 inches

Thinking about the isolation where most artists create, alone in their studios, I remember an artist who I photographed while he sat quietly drawing Rome’s Turtle Fountain amidst the din of traffic and chattering passersby. To represent summer in a four season series, I imagined him sketching beside my creek, the noise of the city replaced by the quiet sounds of the stream and forest.

Contemporary fiber artwork detail of man drawing in sketchbook on hand-painted bacground stained with acrylic paint and ink.

 

Strolling man in Turkish attire screenprinted on inked broom-painted background

Pretend Pasha
2013
58 x 58 inches

He smiles to himself as he makes his way along the pavement in front of the mosque near Istanbul’s Golden Horn. Pigeons scatter as he saunters across the square. He has a secret. I can only imagine the notion that he finds so privately entertaining.

Art textile detail with multiple chiarascuro screenprints in neutral color scheme of grays, black, white of Turk with hands behind his back walking

To Be Frank
2013
H78 x W32 inches
Ink painted with broom as layered stitched fabric background for man in bowler hat waiting with hands behind his back

Higher Ground
2016
H78 x W32 inches

Thinking man on ontemporary fiber art work with deconstructed screenprinting, dye, acrylic paint, monoprint

Thinker screenprinted on monoprint detail of art quilt

Drift
2006
H57 x W52 inches

Sitting in a chair on the bank beside the Danube River, the old man's mind wanders like a leaf carried by the current. 

detail image of contemporary fiber art with deconstructed screenprint with dye

Art quilt with fresco of Orthodox priest with hand painted, inked, stained fabrics
Iconostasis
2017
H40 x W58 inches

Fisherman on studio art quilt drawn, ink, spraypainted, screenprinted
The Minimalist
2012
40 x 40 inches

studio craft art quilt with paper image transfer, dye-painting, monoprint and screenprinted pie chefCrust
2009
H40 x W30 inches

Quiet observing man with lamps screnprint, dye, paintClosely Guarded
2008
H58 x W79 inches

Screenprints of thinking man seated on chair with Roman sculpture head & digital print peony flowers on quilt artPensieri
2008
H48 x W70 inches

Screenprint on dyed layered, stitched fabric showing angry, muttering man walkingfabric of Au Contraire
2007
H63 x W49 inches

 

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