A peaceful lake view in autumn, created in fibers and fabric.

Fall Reflections

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

Set the World on Fire

old tennis shoe covered in fabric and trim

tennis shoe renewed

Passion Flower

Three balls made of wool yarn that has floral patterns and bees.

Singlade Bollar Floral Bees

an embroidered hoop featuring image of white a cat. 2 hearts and a rose float above the cat. The embroider is very layered and textured. Red outlines the subject matter, on a multicolored background. 

Cat with Hearts

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

Look on the Bright Side

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

A sculpted bust of a veiled woman made from wool that looks like marble. The wind appears to be blowing the fabric against her face and the rest is billowing away from her. The veil reveals beneath the illusion of translucent folds half of her face is classicly beautiful and the other half is her skull. 

When The Veil Is Torn Away

An abstract art quilt inspired by the rocks, sky, and sea of the black sand beach at Reynisdrangar, Iceland.

Black Sand Beach-Reynisdrangar

A hat of hand stitched, hand molded cotton buckram with integrated wire foundation covered in silk velvet, nylon cording, fortune pleated satin, silk Dupioni fabric, glass beaded tassels, vintage brooches, sustainably sourced and recycled antique bird of paradise milliners feathers, cut crystal stone, 

Fortune Spirol

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.

A Journey

Cross stitch design, Black Lives Matter. A piece made to promote awareness and solidarity. 


Minneapolis 20/20

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

A macro view of a yellow iris against a complementary purple background painted in a watercolor Batik style on rice paper.

Memories of Summer

A quilt of a cardinal in an showy mountain ash tree.  The thread-painted  cardinal is on a quilted background showing leaves and framed by the branches of the tree.

Cardinal on Mountain Ash

Peaceful memories of beautiful sunset filling the Western sky

Remembrance

A 3-dimensional wet-felted fish treated with many layers of Norwegian wool roving. A plastic resist was placed in the center of the shape about halfway through the felting process so that it could be cut to reveals the "insides" of the fish.

Felted Fantasy Fish

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

Dalai Llama

Patchwork blue and black patterned fabrics in multiple geometric shapes, with a secret pocket in the back.

Secret Pocket

After

Silver framed, white/light blue matted, Hardanger Embroidery, stitched with soft blue threads on Ada cloth, the eight-pointed star is surrounded with a complimenting embroidered design of circles and points.

Framed Hardanger

A single twisted tree growing from the rocks on the edge of Lake Superior.

Tree by the Big Lake

Sweetgrass coil basket attached to black jar lid using sinew. 

Sweetgrass Coil Basket Sewn to Recycled Jar Lid

This piece was created by fulling teal blue wool by agitating it in hot water, then over dyeing it by first tightly wrapping a covering over it that allowed the original color to remain while the exposed sections had color removed, then dyeing in the rust color that forms the grid patterning.  The wood frame was painted copper with a border made of three strands of yarn, some with metallic and sequin highlights.

Tiles

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

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

Small pieces of cotton fabric designed to show a man with a glass in hand raised in a toast.
Based upon a posterized photo of my Dad at my cousin's wedding.

My Dad

A felt artwork with bright fluorescent hand cut abstract shapes in the center, surrounded by swirling needle felted shapes and background using muted colors and a softer focus.

Cosmic Pond

experimentation with color, design, fabric, stitch.

Fall Reflections, 2017

Linda Johaneson