Magnolia Reed

Unconventional artist Magnolia Reed is fascinated by the mystery and beauty found in the creations of God and man. She is a collector of treasures both living and dead, natural and man made, perfect and imperfect; she is captivated by their individual forms, intricate structures, textures, and colours. She sees, hears, and listens to everything that ignites her senses, stirs her curiosity, and entices her to look deeper to find ideas and stories that capture her imagination. Ever the visual storyteller, she modifies, manipulates, transforms, and travels with them on a journey to the next level of her creativity and imagination, inviting the inquisitive and adventurous to journey along and to always look beyond the expected.
Using her own photographs, drawings or photopaper/cyanotype negative prints composed of natural and man made objects, she creates her unique pieces one at a time using a light table, acetate film, ink pens, selected papers, and gouache. Hand tracing each design to film, she will manipulate, modify, detail, and refine her work before adding gouache, ensuring each painting is an original.
Preferring a hands on design style, she was encouraged to explore and developed the multistep creative process she uses, while ...

* BS in Textiles from Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science - Textile Print Design
* Year abroad - Scottish College of Textiles, Galashiels Scotland
* MT in Knit Technology from North Carolina State University. - Machine Knitting Technology