Twilight Painting

Linda Colsh builds her artworks from the images and ideas that she collects as photographs, drawings and writings. She is known for her images of elderly women and men, taken anonymously from the streets where she finds them, stripped of their context, and reworked with new narratives and imagined scenarios. Each work begins with blank white or black cloth, which Linda alters with dye, discharge and paint. She works with design software to develop her images for printing by digital or traditional methods. Her process is weighted to designing and preparing content and cloth before the actual stitching together. An American residing in Belgium, since 1990, Linda Colsh has lived in America, Asia and Europe. A lifelong artist with two degrees in Art History, she exhibits in the US and internationally. Recent highlights were selection to show in the 4th Riga International Textile & Fibre Art Triennial; her "Strassen Szenen" solo show in Freiburg, Germany; and invitation to exhibit in "3 Artists" at Galerie Holtop, Tilburg, the Netherlands. She has curated, juried and judged exhibitions throughout Europe and the US. Current curatorial projects include SAQA's 25th Anniversary Exhibition "Collect" and "Celebrate" the 20th Anniversary show of the Naitonal Quilt Museum. Her work is published and in collections worldwide, including the Collection of John M. Walsh III. Among the awards her artwork has won are the European Quilt Triennial first prize and top prize of the Fabric of Legacies Exhibition in Colorado.