A pine tree on a field of green with a blue sky inside of a yellow sun with a background of blue.

Tree of Life

A portrait of a friend's pet rabbit, a mixed media creation, started with a photograph, then little pieces of brightly colored fabric fused and sewn onto a contrasting diagonal background.



Mr. T. Rabbit

Portrait in profile of woman dressed in black.  Significant contrast between dark dress/background with light colored skin. 

Madame X

Outlines of figures and other screenprinted fabrics are collaged together in this composition.

Family Gathering

An orange fabric background with a pink concha embroidered in the middle, and the text "Conchas" above it and "not cops" below it, embroidered in black cursive. Each corner has a different succulent in a yellow pot with a pink stripe (green round one with pink flower in the top left, green and leafy in the top right, green tall standard cactus in the lower left, and blue cactus with pink flower buds on the bottom right). It is in a dark brown, almost black, frame against a white background.

Conchas Not Cops - for the Former Dulceria Bakery

a basket made with warm colors and geometric design

Hampar's basket

Silk organza in a multitude of patterns and colours (greens, oranges, brown, gold, violet, and blue), cut in small rectangles stitched together with layered pieces one atop the other.

Mikan in the Mountains in Autumn

Capricorn Goat hand tooled and textured in leather with constellation in a blue black sky.

Determination 

old tennis shoe covered in fabric and trim

tennis shoe renewed

A reverent llama dressed in the traditional dress of his Holiness the Dalai Lama. 

Dalai Llama

This is a series of heads with curly hair- all made out of sheep’s wool. Some of the wool is naturally curly. The wool was dyed in different colors and formed into the heads and hair. These are hanging on a pine tree trig to give it its three-dimensional form. 

Curly Heads

Cartonnage Tea Mugs suggest a season of social gathering together in different forms or individual reflections at this time. Remnants were leftover patterned fabrics from making face masks.

Summer Camp Covid

A piece of fabric that has a repeating pattern of irregular oval shapes. The oval shapes are white and the background of the fabric is medium-dark, soft blue. The pattern is irregular and the blue color seeps into the white oval shapes on each shape. Along each rectangle's border, there are dotted lines. 

Resist 1

Embroidery on linen using chain, back, running stitches, and french knots. There is a hole torn off to the left side. Stray threads are seen entering and exiting the opening.

The Center Will Not Hold

The design for this bag was inspired by the subway system in Stockholm, Sweden and pulls the color palette of pastel salmon, lavender, mint and white found in the Morby Centrum underground station. This piece is a handcrafted reversible leather backpack, with diagonal pastel stripes on one side, connecting to the opposite side where the stripes are horizontal. Above the horizontal stripes showcases the architectural insignia logo for the Minneapolis based minimal leather goods brand, Montgomery Collection. This drawstring backpack cinches at the top and includes details of the stripes on one side of the pull strings. The interior is lined in grey suede, soft to the touch and will protect all of your belongings held inside. Worn on either the diagonal or horizontal side, this backpack is a functional piece of art.

Montgomery Collection No.070.3 Backpack

A wool tapestry of a little bird in various colors of blue, standing at the edge of the seashore.  Special tapestry technique includes color gradations created by splitting the 4-ply wool strands and re-twisting them into new color combinations to then be woven into the tapestry. 

Chirpy Little Chap

A woman with three eyes looks at the viewer. Her hair is made of fabric scraps and embroidered bones. 

Set the World on Fire

Doubleweave line design with cotton yarn. Lines are in black with a multiple color background.  Dark, but also bright.

Look on the Bright Side

A cross-stitch embroidery price of a gray, vintage arcade cabinet. A technicolor sign at the top reads "GAMEMAN". On the screen is a distressed figure, seemingly pounding on the glass from the inside. A mysterious liquid drips from the bottom of the cabinet

GAMEMAN

Sweetgrass coil basket attached to black jar lid using sinew. 

Sweetgrass Coil Basket Sewn to Recycled Jar Lid

An installation of a hand woven rainbow stretched out between two, red light stands near a window as sunlight comes through the blinds. 

Untitled (rainbow #1) light stands

Peaceful memories of beautiful sunset filling the Western sky

Remembrance

Silk thread stitched on a substrate that I created from animal membrane (gut) and used dryer sheets; intuitively stiched on various days to represent my mood. First page of 4 pages.

MOOD JOURNAL

Digital image of vintage watchstraps with sterling silver watch faces as reminder to live in the moment. 
Two of an ongoing body work of Time Pieces by Camille Hempel. 

Time Pieces for Being Present 

A black quilt square of cotton fabric with a red three-headed dragon embroidered in the center

Targaryen sigil

Passion Flower

A monster sculpture made of fabric. Neon green fuzzy body with a round skull, purple crystals for teeth and bug eyes. 

Bug Monster 

A pair of ladies black, soft shoes embellished with bright acrylic paint depicting comic book themes.

Best Foot Forward

A hand embroidered tree trunk in shades of brown with light blue lichen on the trunk.

Tree Trunk with Lichen

Wool fleece has been needle felted to create a colorful and softly textured image.  The scene shows a red full moon and a yellow-green crescent moon as ethereal figures begin a journey.  The night sky is composed of blended blues and purples.  One of the figures is robed in vivid reds and corals.

Tree of Life, 2020

Brendan Fernlund