Posts tagged wilderness
Inside Atacama
Inside Atacama

"The place has an ancient feel, a sense of the ground being somehow sacred. Vast and humbling.” Read Her Quiet Materials May 2019 blog to find out how textile artist Claire Benn draws on the landscape of the Atacama desert as inspiration for her work.

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earth pigments bound in a, fibre art, hand stitching, Painting, stitch, textiles as art, Texture, thread, Wholecloth, Landscape as inspiration, Chile, abstract representationClaire BennAtacama Desert, Chile, Art Textiles, Earth pigments, hand stitch, texture, landscape, inspiration, wilderness, representational abstraction
As if to Nothing - into the Arctic
As if to Nothing - into the Arctic

“This cold wilderness offers so much; the silence of the snow, the cleanness and crispness of the air, the monochromatic, pure vistas, the textural details and the light.” Read Claire Benn’s accounts of her travels within the Arctic Circle and the influence of this magical region on her work…

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Aurora Borealis, Northern Lights, textiles as art, textile artClaire BennAurora Borealis, Tromso, North Norway, Siberian Huskies, dog-sleds, snow, ice, light, texture, wilderness, emptiness, Hurtigruten, fjords, Kirkenes, acrylic paint, thread, under painting