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(Feeling) Crushed

Feeling crushed. We’ve all felt this.

That deep sense of disappointment.

The death or suppression of a dream.

Despair for a perceived loss of success, love, happiness.

That sinking feeling when we’re blinded to our own potential.

When someone stomps on our heart space, we feel crushed.

When was the last time you felt crushed? What happened?

Constructive criticism and comments are always welcome. Please share your thoughts!

Crushed (link to poem)

(c) 2019, Hilary Clark, “Crushed”, Fiber, 35″ x 22-1/2″

Detail View
(c) 2019, Hilary Clark, “Crushed”, Fiber, 35″ x 22-1/2″

Next up: Flipping feelings to the upbeat. Can’t stay down for long. Stay tuned for my next textured fiber painting.

Info about my Feelings series: I interpret my random abstract doodles as emotions. The guiding point is the outer boundary of the doodle. The boundary evokes the feeling. From there, I contemplate how to bring that particular feeling alive in fiber.

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Studio Update: June 2019

This month, I’m sharing a studio update, showcasing progress on the latest textured fiber painting in my (Feeling) series. Crushed is underway; the stitching began last week. In this post, I’m sharing photos of the progress to date.

Original doodle – the shape that inspired “Crushed” as the feeling choice.

I enlarge the original doodle using tracing paper to create the canvas template

My intuitive color choices to interpret the feeling

If you missed last month’s post, which revealed (Feeling) Passionate, you can see it here.

The goal for July’s post is the unveiling of the completed (Feeling) Crushed. If I miss the goal, I’ll share another Studio Update.

What’s your creative practice?

I also wanted to take the opportunity to share a bit about what I’m doing with my work as my work and my art go hand in hand. I’m a Life and Authenticity Coach, helping stressed out, frantic, frazzled women over 40 slow down and reconnect to their intuition so they can get their shit together. I do this by helping them to develop a creative practice. I’ve walked the road my clients are on. Development of my own creative practice helped me regain my voice and led me to want to serve others in the same way. If you’re interested in learning more about coaching and how it might help you develop (or expand on) a creative practice as a means to reconnect to your intuition and lose the stress, you can follow me over at Harmony Coaching.

Thanks for hanging around the studio with me!

(Feeling) Passionate

Passion! A vibrant feeling that often overwhelms and carries us away.

Passion is work in flow. It’s heart and soul in flow.

Passion isn’t contained or neat or tidy or reserved. It’s explosions of color and light and joy.

In this piece, the color wraps around itself and leaps for freedom.

Where does passion appear in your life?

Constructive criticism and comments are always welcome. Please share your thoughts!

Passionate (link to poem)

(c) 2019, Hilary Clark, Passionate, Fiber, 37″ x 21-1/2″

Next up: Shifting from Passion to a more subdued feeling, one that evokes an emotion from the other side of the spectrum. Stay tuned for my next textured fiber painting.

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Studio Update: April 2019

Last month, I revealed (Feeling) Woeful, my first piece of the year. I’m working in a larger format for 2019, roughly 2′ by 3′, so it’s taking a bit longer to finish a piece (having a job and regular life responsibilities do have an impact on my available studio time, after all).

This is a super photo heavy post. In late March, I attended International Quilt Fest Chicago (their last year here! 😦 ) and took photos of the art that most appealed. And in early April, I was in San Diego, so I made a stop at the Visions Art Museum and I couldn’t resist taking photos of those exhibits either.

But first…

I’m currently working on (Feeling) Passionate and am sharing progress photos below. I always try to alternate between the catabolic and anabolic feelings for my work, from “negative” to “positive”. So from woe to passion we go. I hope you enjoy this work. Please let me know your thoughts in the comments below!

Photos from IQF Chicago – to be clear, none of these are my art –

Photos from Visions Art Museum, including Maria Shell’s work (none of these are mine, either. Someday!) –

I’ll be back in a month with the full reveal for (Feeling) Passionate, or another Studio Update if my progress gets derailed. Thanks for hanging around the studio with me.

What have you been up to?

(Feeling) Woeful

Feelings are not small when we feel them, no matter how others might try to force us to ignore or suppress those feelings into a tiny space. Therefore, in 2019, my work will grow larger to more accurately portray the intuitive and instinctive physical manifestation of the feeling for which a piece is named.

All of my textured fiber paintings are created from intuition. From instinct. There is no sketching beyond the initial doodle for the outline. There is no planning. This is seat of the pants, gut-driven creation.

Because this is a year for my work to grow in size, (Feeling) Woeful is larger than the previous work in this series, which means more stitching, which means it took more time to complete. Woeful is dark, as grief and woe often are. The one bright, almost jarring, fuchsia accent symbolizes the raw pain woe often brings.

How have you experienced woe?

Constructive criticism and comments are always welcome. Please share your thoughts!

Woeful (link to poem)