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Textile Landscapes demonstrates how to develop your approach to textile art with a focus on using found objects and paint and stitch on cloth and paper.Cas explains how to exploit the contrast between the hands-on textural quality of working with fabrics and threads and the spontaneity and movement of brush marks to lend a painterly quality to your work.She begins with the basics – keeping a sketchbook to generate ideas, painting and stitching on cloth and on paper and working digitally; Inspiring Landscapes looks at natural and urban space, the changing seasons and great landscapes as well as intimate spaces and travel diaries; Painting and Marking with Cloth explains the practical aspects of painting and dyeing cloth and how to make connections between paint, print, dye, stencil and stitch; Stitch-scapes looks at the different forms of landscape, experimenting with photographs and prints and how to translate those images using ink, stitch, abstract and collage techniques and then at how to transform the image using digital techniques; On Closer Inspection covers using elements and details from landscape and the environment as found objects and for research; finally People and Place explores the relationship we have with the outdoors and the built environment, as well as personal interpretations of place.The book includes artworks by the author that explore the UK, USA, Europe and Australia, as well as works by other internationally renowned textile artists. A creative guide ideal for textile artists of all levels – students, teachers and practising artists and makers – to make unique and beautiful work inspired by the world around us.

Artists create works that express their perceptions of the world around them. Their world may be one that they observe and from which they select elements to convey ideas, emotions, values, attitudes, or their world may not be directly observable but based on feelings and ideas to which the artist gives form and expression. The following works suggest some concepts that are embedded in paintings by four American artists.

There was the show's titular painting, a wild, verdant evocation of her capacious backyard that, with its characteristic blend of her loose and tight brushstrokes, was as precisely and lovingly evoked as the people in her Alice Neel-esque portraits; and \"Daffodil\" (2022), pale flowers set in a candy apple red vase on a dark wooden table, done in the cinematic, blue-tinged hues of prestige television (the palette she often uses for the skin of her Black male subjects); and \"Field Balm\" (2022), a small painting of bare anides emerging from a pair of celery green Crocs (on which a \"Black Lives Matter\" pin has been appended) standing on mulchy ground. Hill's next group of flower paintings - soft, sprightly renderings made during the height of the pandemic and shown at Oxy Arts in Los Angeles in 2022 - portray roses, daisies and daffodils in saturated pastel hues, their simple floral motifs an apparent nod to Henri Matisse, who, in his 1947 book, \"Jazz,\" writes, \"There are always flowers for those who want to see them. [...]in the past few years the Western art world has seen a re-emergence of natural imagery and a preference for the pastoral from painters best known for paintings of friends, spouses, loved ones and neighbors, for pictures of celebrities, for self-portraits - for evocations of the human form in all its incarnations. Take Kerry James Marshall, the 68-year-old Chicago-based artist who's celebrated for inserting the Black figure into the Western art canon starting in the early '90s, and who is widely considered one of the most important painters living today. Since 2020, he's been making paintings of birds amid colorful tumbles of flowers as part of an ongoing series, \"Black and Part Black Birds in America,\" in which he reimagines John James Audubon's 19th-century \"Birds of America\" watercolors.

\"Five hundred years of Western painting, the illusionism that preoccupied artists from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries, were signaled by Giotto's robustly modeled figures. Cezanne was the first to suggest how these entrenched values could be transformed. Yet the 'prophet of modernism,' as he has been called, never rejected tradition... His work connects the past with what was to come, pointing to what would be the future of adventurous painting in Europe and America but at the same time profoundly informed by the Classicism of Nicolas Poussin, the Romanticism of Eugene Delacroix, the Realism of Gustave Courbet, and more.\" (NEW CRITERION) 19th-century artist Paul Cezanne's life and work are detailed. Cezanne's artistic styles, techniques and content and their profound impact on contemporary art are outlined.