Featured Artist: Barbara ZuaZua

During the eight weeks of 'simply irRESISTible' we'll focus on individual artists here on our blog. Every week, three artists will be featured. Today, we're pleased to introduce to you: Barbara ZuaZua from Douglasville, PA.

Immortality

About the piece:

“Immortality”


On the other side,
The dawn mirrors our dusk.
Sadness and grief are released.

Immortality realized,
My love awaits me
“Immortality”


On the other side,
The dawn mirrors our dusk.
Sadness and grief are released.

Immortality realized,
My love awaits me

B.Zuazua written 1999"

Immortality, detail

Artist Statement/Biography: Most of my quilts are driven by emotion. "Discected" was driven by intense grief and anger. Most are driven love that is bursting forth. With any extreme of emotion, it fights to be expressed.

Currently I'm exploring more technical designing instead of following emotional inspiratations and pictorial quilts.

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Building a foundation from the traditional style of quiltmaking, years of drawing and painting, and her woodworking style shows a logical progression to the studio quilts of Barbara Zuazua.

In the first few years, she worked with the basics of geometric shapes in designing her own quilt patterns and taught quilting at Pottstown Sewing and Crafts. Meanwhile she had been playing with the possibilities of combining several art mediums into her studio quilts and developing a voice in her artwork.

Since 2005, her quilts and dolls have been accepted in several shows, exhibits, and publications.

Currently Barbara is represented by The Gallery On High, Pottstown, Pa. She teaches at the Gallery School, is forming a free quilt making class for seniors at a retirement community, and is entering juried art competition

http://www.bzthreads.com/

barbara@bzthreads.com